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  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  what I was doing during high school and contextualizing how I'd benefit ... Competition"]FRC,[/annotation] and I was interested in local politics. All these ... , video games... but I wasn't sure how to express those topics uniquely. I

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  school right now, otherwise I would ask him--is this computer terminology for something I don't understand or do you mean "Techer" as in ... School, and a lot of my friends and I would semi-jokingly refer to us as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  questions would you want to ask your future classmates? Like I said, we ... I've got applications on the brain. Last week, we posted the blogger applications; this week, I'm modifying the Maker Portfolio for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  the Spire post two years ago, I had 67 hours in the game. Now I have 300 ... in my Steam library that I'm working through. The trouble is that I ... incremental game I've played, is how well-designed the core mechanics are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  would be in college and mostly have the ability to go wherever I wanted ... and being neck deep in stuff (which I would honestly still prefer over ... , would my friends and I have woken up at 4:00 am to drive for 4 hours to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  It Be—but I didn't consider myself well-versed in the Beatles ... 't interested in them enough to take an entire class on them. In May, I watched ... their music in the Beatles' earlier albums. With this, I was able to gain

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  thought that it'd be imposing of me to ask if I could get help from her in person -- much to my surprise, she asked if I wanted to meet her in person ... contributed to MIT in so many ways that I wouldn't know where to begin. So, I

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  -classy picture of how far I walk every day? It still applies. (The fun part ... is what I thought would happen - it's hard to find a UROP if you start looking too late in the year), she asked me if I was okay with starting in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  thrown in whole, peel and all. Overall, I know how I feel—frankly, bad ... circumstances in this blog post would be particularly different if I were at any ... every muscle in my body already sore, regardless of how much physical

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  were definitely my stronger subjects in high school, and so I figured I ... in mechanical engineering -- actually I got two degrees. I had so much ... . And then I was commissioned in the Navy, and I did underwater ship

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  towards the end of high school, my friends and I would religiously check the ... 't know how to use my camera.) And although I had a lot of fun sitting with ... would've done something else with it. And at this point in your year

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  fare. So here I am, riding along through Central Square. I’m in the ... and started riding again. Otherwise I would’ve been late. Turns out ... 16 or younger, so I would’ve gotten off with just a scolding. But I won

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. In terms of my personal excitement level, I ... . 7:20 - Neil speaks. "Thank you all for coming. I thought I would begin ... 't actually trying to be inconsiderate, I would like a beep-free lecture just as

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  it to my students, I would have any serious applicant read all of these ... 've had a tremendous impact. In advance of this anniversary, I decided to ... 've gathered, but I am not that person. Part of the decrease in comment activity

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  -TAWN-Yuh (like “Tanya” with a “Na” in front! Or so I tell people so they don’t call ... skilled in the art of hip-hop dancing; math is my absolute worst subject; I ... thought I’d be now, MIT would be the last place I would have said—if I

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  what I need. It’s the first time in the last two years that I’ve stopped ... company I’m interning at put us up at a very posh apartment-style hotel in ... rises, I can spot the hills in the distance. One day, I’ll snap out of my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  major and I have no idea how to navigate all the crazy twists and turns of ... thought hey, if I can get lost in the middle of campus after 3 years of ... 're in Lobby 7 at 77 Mass Ave (how easy is that?) you're pretty much set

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  Growing up, I loved to mock tourists. Precisely, of those who would ... childish behavior. How clueless was I? [caption id="attachment_86641" align ... the softest and calmest dusk I had ever seen. I watched it in awe for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is ... . I tried old math olympiad problems that would have otherwise remained ... hurtling into the room. A month later, I was in the United States for the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  ’s halfway through the semester, and I’m in this weird mood lately where I ... majority of it outside. My friends and I biked to Newbury street in Boston to ... around and admired the flowers that are suddenly in bloom. I have done

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021