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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  for the next 4 years? How much do I want to learn? What would I give up ... running around out of control, so I figured I'd put it in an entry by itself ... that advice. I do it myself sometimes, usually when I'm in a terrible

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• 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
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  about keeping a car in the city. I love to drive; I've for a long time ... 'm listening to the radio and driving (in a still-fully-attentive sorta way). I ... one towing. It was little enough that I decided I would try to bring my

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  because of the academic environment i was raised in - other people doing well on math contests meant i would have a worse rank, other people getting into top colleges meant i would have a harder time doing so myself

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  would say it's super similar to how The Three Broomsticks is described in ... few nuanced opinions about it.  I mentioned this briefly in a previous ... - they're all excellent and I would highly recommend trying literally any

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  I've spent most of this summer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, staying ... in-person or remote. I knew that I could stay at WILG if I interned in Cambridge, but I'd have to search for housing in San Francisco. Also, I knew

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  Hello all, I interrupt the great back-to-school flow of these blogs to deliver a semi-personal, semi-existential rant. I am THIS close to ordering an e-book reader (the brand of which I will not specify but you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  student with some close friends at Harvard! In Part 1, I discussed how cross ... we met. In this post, I describe how we've stayed in contact (and even ... a viable option for myself. What would I even do in a gap year during

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  dad is in the front seat; I'm in the back, sharing space with enough ... entire life is in this car, pretty much, if you leave out all the friends I ... States; I guess this is just the first small difference in a long line of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  for shirataki noodles! I snuck in vegies in my dinners! And I actually ... pressing desire to learn how to drive. The one time I used public ... subway in…  NYC   Before this summer, I went to NYC once with a friend

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  . how do you know when to pause working? with problem sets, i'd stop in ... one. it's nice to have slack in your schedule. and by slack, i don ... .033, we finished 6.036 grading in four hours, and i fit everything in my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022