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• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  the exact same credentials, I'm not confident I would get in. Admissions ... confused applicants. I'm not going to tell you how to get into MIT. That ... less than 2012's. I can tell you how to maximize the strength of your

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  understood that I learned how to answer them at some point in the past but my ... wanted to sleep. The only other time I remember feeling this tired was in ... extended essay in order to get the IB diploma. I remember thinking (as many

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  in my emails.I do not know how not to Feel, Think, or have things Seem To Me. I am self-conscious about the number of "I"s in my writing ... this is I don't know how to do this for emails to adults who would be

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  ' grilled cheese would be here from 3-5pm today. Either 1) I am getting very ... would it be and why?" Kumail thought I was referencing a bit he had done ... Festival. I was unaware of this until I happened upon a food truck giving out

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  "]CAD[/annotation] for thorns because I didn’t know how wide they would need to be to fit ... This fall, I enrolled in EM.S21: Design and Make a Lamp. It's a 3 ... showed us CAD modeling. I came in to this class expecting to have a good

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  . MIT forced me to figure out, early in my undergrad career, how I should ... In my last entry, way back in June 2013, I painstakingly bid good ... : “Farewell, MIT blogosphere”). But I’m back!! Just in time to join other

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  . I think, in amassing these colors, I was figuring out how to be ... past it like some of the giant ideas in this area. I had no beginning ... intertwined.   I remember high school as a blur of grey; in one word, I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  hard classes to finish up to graduate in time. Some weeks I would only ... Boston with some good practices, but I wasn't sure how my hip would hold up ... easy tomorrow, but I would have to somehow find that fire in my belly

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  A lot of my time this summer has been spent in transit. I take the ... harbors, all I’d be able to see would be the hazy blur of frustration, panic ... than meaningful, since I don’t believe in there being such a thing as

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  make it yet. i can ignore the deadline and process my feelings in the ... . or, when the news breaks and i am not in the right state of mind, i don ... until i can listen to it. in practice, no news is urgent enough that i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  his very first documentary. Of course, I would have loved his ... in including these as well. I echo the sentiments of a commenter on the ... a wonderful institution in so many ways and no matter how you choose

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  feels like just yesterday (I graduated in 2013). Last year, I had the ... going in this discipline. But job aside, I’ve also distilled what I want ... , by the way, was something I acquired during an IAP program in South

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  , I would actually have to go to someone’s home who lived in the area ... officer, I think that I would have had fun trying to be a journalist. I like ... interview. I know that you are really busy and involved in a bunch of things

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  that I would normally never do. He was one of the top chess players in ... everything there was to know about myself. I didn't know how easy it is to become what you once scoffed at. I would never be with a boy who makes me

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  ." ------------------------------------- Ferdinand wrote: "i plan to apply for aid and wish to know how i would be ... factor in my deferral from EA, so yes, I think writing could and should be ... . ------------------------------------- Anonymous wrote: "So how were those New SAT Writing scores in early action

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... slapped a π on the deck because I figured it would be on-brand for MIT. And ... 've gone too far. Whoever wrote MIT's graphic identity rules would writhe in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Satisfaction New year= New opportunities/classes = Happy Kirsten

  

  But I figured that all of you would still enjoy reading about my classes ... bridges. In this class, we look at structures in equilibrium and learn how ... because I've been able to learn more about the force distributions in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 13, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  it out, I had to make regrade requests. In this blog post, I ... regrade requests and responses like? I took two classes in Fall 2019 for ... lot of topics in math which I hadn't encountered before. I also made

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  thinking about my potential blog post. i could mention how i might be in ... head: "ah. i haven't blogged in a while, have i?" a gust of wind nearly ... been happening in my life that i could write about. i could maybe talk

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  classes I’m taking this semester, but they're still in flux. Instead, I ... something related to course scheduling. In many of these instances, had I not ... prof?” So I did. It would be an overexaggeration to say I poured my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022