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• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)

  

  '00) and a current student (from the Middle East). Aside from some ... up on chores, etc. It was nice to have a day at home, though I used the ... . Tonight, I'm going to a screening of the Oscar-nominated short films at the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  I grew up in Nashua, New Hampshire, an unassuming city with lovely people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge ... 'm enveloped in an impalpable childlike innocence that convinces me that I spent

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  Hacks and meta-hacks

  

  . MIT "hacking war". I remember eating dinner in the 4th West diner at two ... A few nights ago, I was walking down the Infinite Corridor with two of my hall's freshmen, when one of them noticed something odd in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  . I was worried how people would accept me. I was different, and I was ... own? “In the fall I was really into fur vests. I didn’t even mention how ... tights, I would. I’ll wear what I’m comfortable in, and I’m not going to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  highlights in around 15 hours - but i wonder how much of a show’s message or ... what would happen if i worked in anti-aging and made no progress for ten ... shows i never would’ve started otherwise - for instance, i do not have the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  honey thing. “I would never even consider going vegan if I lived in Paris ... tone or idiom, because I wouldn’t know how to manage those things in ... -year-old in 2024. What a simple story I would tell years later. I went to Paris

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  actual novels in this language. i was actually what you would consider ... just know me in person - might know that I have one true love, and its ... since I first played it in 8th grade, and the characters and the story

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  clearest water I've ever been in (I could read my watch with my arm under ... obvious reasons, such not wanting to get in trouble for indecency, I didn ... One of the many things I love about my community, by which I mean 5th

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  , how much i'd changed in various eras of life, i said something about how ... mean time. i'm in the united kingdom for the first time! i just came back ... incredible[/caption] i'm here in Southampton on grad studenting business. it

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  I told her how much it meant to me to see women in the gaming space. I ... Back in October of 2022, I flew from Boston to LA and drove two hours ... stuff, what have you -- I try to always keep a tab on what's going on in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  wasn't a guess of how many students would want to return – but I thought ... For five weeks this summer, I competed in dormspam-the-game, a series ... later in the post, when I discuss the rules for each game. I somehow

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  intense on me. Every so often, Raymond would check in on me, asking if I ... nicely, but unfortunately, we are in a pandemic. I would have two ... solution was correct (yay!) and then asked how I would refactor my code if I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Xanga Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part one.

  

  person. 21. My first kiss was in middle school. 22. I want to go to art ... 478614235 times. 30. I dress how I feel when i wake up. 31. I like being ... for tests. 68. I believe in my God. 69. I hate food. 70. I have a

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  lane on the Infinite. I don't care how big your group is. No carpool lane ... I don't have many pet peeves when it comes to MIT, but one of the biggest is people who do not understand how to drive on the Infinite

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  , lifting my left, as my partner nudges me in front of him. i shuffle my feet ... happen. by the time i’m back in my room, i have twenty unread emails, all ... felt, at least, to me. i’ve seen members of the esp team put in hours

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  months after. the hallways in my own dorm would haunt me. i did not call it ... i attended junior year, they would play The Woods by Hollow Coves a ... in tents outdoors. at meals, we would gather around the heater and melt

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  didn’t take me very long to figure out what my project would be. When I ... pepper them with questions – I take about 18 laps around the room in an ... , and I am blown away by how deeply they know about their projects. Also

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  myself I was starring in. And for the most part, I would argue these ... high school, I would make jokes with friends that once in college I could ... and unavoidable reflections on how I’ve been feeling once again. So

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  get in. I was almost certain that I would get rejected from MIT, and I ... until very, very late in the game. I first started researching colleges ... weird. I liked it a lot because it stood out in its rejection of the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  , have decided that today I will operate under the assumption that I am in ... pace. Your thoughts on Alaska are welcomed. - I actually was in Alaska ... neck muslces later I was boarding a plane to Seattle in a neck brace. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010