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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  I’ve explored in the GEL Program, which I thought was pretty exciting ... this. I was a captain of my Cross Country and Track teams in high school ... trouble, and cheer a lot at races. I don’t even know how I became captain. I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  how it looks, I found it to be very fun and interesting to drive. 10 ... before the meeting. 11:30am. I arrive in Ann Arbor a little early, so I go ... , 2008 The next couple days, I visit a few high schools in the area, and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  instruments I was arranging for would sound like in real life. Twelve non ... and consecutive nine hours of sleep in a long time, I learned how to ... admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  week in this country, that word popped up a lot. In orientation, I ... “black” got more weight and I wasn’t quite sure how to deal with it. Mostly ... afloat in the comforting bubble of MIT, so it didn’t really matter. I had

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  Despite the fact that I've lived in the Boston area for the past four ... was in college, but I had just never done it. Mostly I use the city for ... hurricane in Boston since I've been here, other than the remnants which come

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  Form, an “RSVP form.” I call Mu Lan telling them that the number would be ... learned about things I never would’ve originally: MIT’s AI Ventures class ... ="a convenient place to find EVERY MIT PERSON EVER"]search.mit.edu[/annotation], I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  interest in design: “His Christmas gift to me would be one day of his time ... is when I sense some carelessness in a product.” Every Wednesday night ... paragraph.  Because every time I step into 35-307, I'm reminded of how lucky I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  is going by for me, I don’t know what would. Since then, I’ve been ... Disorder” (or “I see everything”) I was tar-trap black in love with you. I ... sneakers snap and no umbrella or plastic bag! How ever would you go back to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  figuring out how exactly to word the spec I’m writing. It’s easy to get in ... earlier in the week. I never would have called an Excel file beautiful ... summer, back during Fall Career Fair in late September. I was feeling

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  week. The mini prep and plate replications I have to do in lab tomorrow ... then, in that very moment, that I had zero clue as to what to expect. I  had never listened to the Hamilton soundtrack in its entirety. I knew as

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  a daunting task. I discovered MIT fairly early on in my search, and ... as I was - but would MIT be so well suited for my second passion? Would a writer fit in at MIT? After arriving at MIT, I quickly learned that

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  MATH CLASS HOW WILL I EVER END UP GRADUATING AND FORGET THE DOUBLE MAJOR ... holding dinner parties for my friends in the box I call home! With the knowledge that I can in fact survive at MIT, why why why does looking at my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  my research supervisor (Hans), I didn’t know how to ski, so I ended up ... also a lot more annoying in the beginning because it felt like I was ... out as bad as Andi did, but I was flopping around quite a bit in the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  side of the tracks." In fact, I'm from the wrong side of TWO tracks. In ... unfriendly fluorescent lights together. In the interest of full disclosure: I never attended Middletown High School North. I would have- I attended its

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  better quality than it would have been if I'd done it without her help. My ... student interested in painting your room, I know of four dorms that allow ... Yesterday evening I came back from work to discover my friend Kim, a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  very, very long way. I actually would be interested in trying to rewrite ... writing process was like for me since I get a lot of questions as to how to ... was so shit, but regardless! I started writing my essays in early

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  read all of it. No matter how many "it's a wonderful post" or "I loved it, by the way"s it was wrapped in, the criticism still stinged. When I ... trash" to "barely acceptable". I knew that the puzzle would be poorly

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  this mean great things in Kevin Rustagi's future. I would endeavor to ... about MIT the instant I got my acceptance letter (deferred, got in regular ... , couldn't I just give it to him, would he take it? Now??? Why yes, Ben

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  So I've been in classes here for, as of yesterday, one whole month ... Development and Printing. So I'm in a class called "Digital and Darkroom ... increasing in uselessness.   I've been doing all that, and a lot of

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  elementary/middle school, I would take a book, sit in an unoccupied section ... stark contrast, I was in marching band and on the quiz team in high school ... . Basically, I think we're going to have to sit in the back in 5.60 tomorrow so

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005