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• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  , I still wanted to be able to take a break and do some things for fun ... 'd requested and discarded essays, I may have killed a tree. I'll plant one when ... , and that's great. Also, feel free to comment with other things you find

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of The Bands takes over Bryan’s Blog Hostile takeover of Bryan's blog for the night.

  

  MIT to compete in front of YOU for prizes and bragging rights. Yuan ... -MIT) Shaye: And guess what? Yuan: What? Shaye: We have a special performance ... MIT/Wellesley, $12 general Free food and ice cream with price of

  • by Bryan
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  being perceived and how to sing with purpose. we put on a musical that ... [annotation note="where we went for the combined bday for me and a friend, and ... for groceries and got too much takeout. that spring i got a bike, which

  • by Phi A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  watching each come with a set of vocabulary words and thought ... spring break light reading about a French serial killer and the birth of ... a whim. Sometimes I have good whims and sometimes I have bad whims

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  to risk looking like a mess in a meeting, recitation with ten or fewer ... shoulder was silver/purple/orange for a few weeks and so were my chair, hands ... . On the bright side, it did look good, and it is a great [annotation

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  the Wind Ensemble for 3 reasons: I didn’t want to forget how to play ... piece, you have a sheet of paper in front of you in black and white. You could go through the motions and “play a mezzo-piano C quarter note after

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  to spend a lot of time with wordy disclaimers and pretentious claims ... violin. Can I walk into MIT, grab a random violin, and play with it? No, I ... in doubt, track down an email address and bug a professor for answers

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  know? I suggested asking for a photo with the pilot. Hailey mentioned a ... because I am an Orientation Captain. I have to come early for training and ... well for orientation and [annotation note="Residential Exploration Period

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  for Battlecode with two of my friends. In junior year, I worked on a ... every weekday, and a lengthy pset each week. I’m keeping up with the ... means the sunlight feels so bright (when it’s there) and hotpot with

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  fill my day with psets and project deadlines. let's do a comparison ... all of these mistakes. i went to NYC and went on a ~15 hour bender with ... get away, but my research called to me and i decided to forego a bunch

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  wrong with asking a counselor to review your essay(s) and offer feedback ... ?" Nope, and nope. If you've designated MIT as a recipient, there is no need ... go for MIT interview?" Eric responded that it would be a good idea to

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  . Then I mailed everything and sat back for a month, biting my nails and ... holiday weekend in New York with some friends. I acquired a real curio of a hat in a Canadian train station, and thinking it'd serve well in keeping

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  should look at each of them and, somewhere in the back of our minds, for ... bags and looking lost. Peter reached out to help me with my bags and ... that I don't contact them for a longer time and they proposed to do some

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  Publishing abroad A taste of an MIT-Russia student's blog

  

  : Agency for Journalistic Investigation (AJUR) and RIA Novosti. This post was ... the warship, and it was published online! Please look: http ... . She sort of looked at me incredulously, and then asked me if there wasn

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  how i spend my days where my (melodramatic!) summer thoughts have been

  

  way for me to make a difference with these cards? I hate capitalism and ... with my family, had fluffy dogs and a cute apartments and remote work and ... , and like I could potentially solve one little issue. Working for a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  and struggling to obtain for all of high school. I wondered if a daily ... last year of eligibility for a ~special program~ my local library ran ... be entered in a lottery for a $1000 dollar scholarship. For kids up to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  hub for course information, scores, feedback, and quizzes. I'm not a ... feel like I grew a lot in a few weeks. I came into MIT with a basic ... [/annotation], where I have to debug every program and circuit I make for two

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  neither). Please look out for this message and respond to it quickly, so we ... This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  keys and a book, and drive 18 minutes to west neck beach (had to look up ... after a few minutes and wait for the kimchi juice to evaporate almost ... you currently own a nintendo switch, are willing to spend $60, and think

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  commitments. and whenever you think "wow, i should meet up with that person," a ... up with. there are obviously less creepy and type-A ways to do this ... happy, but a key component of it includes exercises for you to put certain

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020