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• Blog / Challenges

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  which I attended in 2018 and was a counselor for in 2019. Along with a ... we provide a comfortable space for people to engage with us and with ... of our thoughts in a post-mortem, and leave it for the next CPW

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  , and I built a bookshelf with Cory to hold our disassembled Legos. After ... interactions with people right now are a balancing act between vulnerability and ... the very start of the semester I got in a fight with a friend and her

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  play with categorization, text alignment, fonts, and colors. Figure 3 ... ’t edit the doc at all) into the log (with a value of zero for the number of ... really as difficult as it felt? I found a deep appreciation for how my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  the previous fall. It was a five-story, 100-foot-wide dorm with two ... built onto its north and south walls, and a matching parallel would be ... with several inches of water. The first and second floors suffered most

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the ... just say 'we told you so.'"]and broke the November Rule with a guy ... with a little anecdote. There are these two young fish swimming along and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  space right now, posting to the blogs both as an alum and as a current ... and more bloggers and imbuing them with a spark. Even if we have never ... site with a) student-written blogs and b) open comments was a kind of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  many people asking for their time and permission. We did a lot of ... Admissions office with a green screen background.   Outside MIT and Lobby ... Media Center with Chris and Loren! There were a lot of things each of us

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  techniques and perform with a lot more cognitive clarity than an extra ... higher capacity for spatial reasoning than females. A large-scale 1995 meta ... to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  loft with my Legos and my books. Having a boyfriend who likes Legos and ... animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post ... things. I found it again this morning and curled up outside with my coffee

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn ... lock, and take measurements for a new key. I can tie knots. I can design ... , as a science major, I felt overshadowed by MIT's engineers. And I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  have for dinner. I looked to the left, and the right, and back again ... decision fatigue for a few reasons. The first, and most obvious, is that it ... . For me, a reset usual means yoga, food prep, laundry, ironing, and maybe

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  750, and this person has a 780", we're saying "both of these applicants ... they have not demonstrated a clear need for it (and often even when they ... different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  wanted that job for a long time. 2. How I blog - the writing and posting ... with a strong desire to blog, and figure out what to write about as I go ... opposite me, resting on his elbow and playing Words With Friends. He

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  loss. And so I sat on my bed and cried. I cried for a while, and my mom ... ’re sending away, with each application, a little investment of emotions, and a ... it a whole lot better. And I do want you to know. With tenacity of will

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  abdomen that this one is most likely a female. They live for 3 months to 2 ... creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a ... other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  four huge airport-bound bags…and then it happened. I heard it. For a long ... cluelessness at a paper filled with q’s, w’s and asterisks, a sheet strewn with ... Things took a turn for the worse. Quickly. Very quickly. -- August

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Class Projects

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  , ash and debris blow up into the atmosphere for days, creating a dense ... , a class inspired by Charles and Ray Eames's short film "Powers of Ten ... assignments. As someone with no design background at all and minimal interest in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  . I told myself whatever happens I would be there for her with a smile ... ruined such a deep and emotional paragraph with a hashtag. Like mother like ... Camille looks like me and we share a lot of characteristics. (Yes, I am also

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  year, I started changing my mind a lot more, started looking for new ... stories that have stuck and relevant snippets of my own life. ([1][2][3 ... . My parents were pressuring me to be a premed and become a doctor (like

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  and rapidly refuted her claims with a dazzling barrage of nicely ... exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday ... factory purlieus and enclosed by a ten foot steel-and-wire fence like a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009