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• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2023 i3 videos megapost

  

   (alongside tours!). I’ve embedded all the 2023 i3 videos below in case you would ... Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  financial aid, I turned in my applications. Then, I stopped thinking about them. I had turned in what I needed to. My essays were some semblance of who I was, and while I might wish I hadn’t used so many commas in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  most days - occasionally two meals and/or no dessert - but when I'm in ... ) - Reread lots of books that I haven't read in a long time - Attended my dad ... team once I get back in town and IAP starts - Visit my old high school

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  So in between reading applications I've been sitting in on CMS.790 ... , and say: "Hey Flourish! I'm Chris. I work over in admissions. A decade ago we worked on FictionAlley together. I was in the group that fled Fan

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Check the Mail Pyramid!

  

  , if I were in charge of mail I would probably not process anything just to see how high I could get the stack. I also have sensitive hands - I ... sent in my scores awhile ago, but I still don't see them on My

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  . This means I can't put pictures in for the other ones. I would like to ... interesting story behind how I got interested in this and what I have been doing ... including in the Optional section? ( I hope you would rate it better than just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  people. I'd talked with Ellen about being women in STEM, and how we'd found ... , I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she ... so grateful for my lab. This blog is about how I found my UROP and what

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  are you stressed/anxious/ [emotion] about finals/decisions/[noun]?  here are some adorable dogs. also, me as james bond.

  

  latter, let's just say that I knew it would be successful from the ... kidding, dogs are my favorite animals in the world and this would be a ... final was to compete in a Top Gun shooting competition. ...I didn't win

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 13, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  forward to exercising in, I've realized how important it is to take a break ... to see how all of our hard work would pan out. The Muslim Students ... in the moment. And even though I thought I new my friends well, there

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  not send in that extra recommendation. Instead, I would put the relevant ... MIT. How much need I shorten these essays?" In a previous entry, I ... this hinder or aid my application in any way? And where would I mention

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  undergraduates living in the dorms. I went on that trip for the first time today, and now I have enough apples that it would be wasteful for me not to eat ... 're triploid."]Mutsu[/annotation] thrown in there. I like a tart apple. They had

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  . How could I be a senior when I had never even been a junior? I was very ... less. It's still here, in little bits and pieces: when I realize that the ... others' mouths, the last time I was in this classroom it was for a class I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  year just flew by in a weird sort of emptiness. It didn’t, of course. I ... actually happened in my life since September. I also feel a little bad for the negativity in my previous post, though I do stand by it, so this is

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  I spent this past IAP at home in Central Pennsylvania. This is where ... weekends when I can. PA is colder than Boston, or it feels that way. In the winter the grass is covered in hoarfrost (иней in Russian, I learned) that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  quite so. I'm a senior who's majoring in Course 4 Architecture and will ... -career Sloan Fellows...we also have to form a IT-based startup in a team...And I ... -breathing startup, whereas I'm still thinking in a more theoretical realm... I love

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  you all. When I left MIT in 2018, I "graduated" with the first class I helped admit. It felt poetic, in a way. I embarked on a new career as a ... against a window. I predicted with my students when decisions would be

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  idea what people do in most majors (and where I would fit in), and a ... extroverted, I hope we can get along. Boy, did I underestimate how well we would ... proof based mechanics class. Each week, I would spend 5 hours in class and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  students I met would expound on how much smarter they felt then the rest of ... still have no idea how integrating factors work!" or "I better get a good grade, because I spent 100 hours on this project." or "I slept in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  like a moment in time, sips away like a bottle of wine. Here I am, blinking into the mid-afternoon sunshine, trying to recall how I got here ... in diary pages and used calendars. Another year until I acquired the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  irrevocably changed in many ways (my meme game has improved exponentially), I am ... 's what I wrote about, and what I would change if I could do it all over ... , which I participated in during high school. Then my dad was like, "I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019