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• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  ://fsae.mit.edu/. Background and Introduction I’m Monica C., an M.Eng in Electrical Engineering ... , Autonomous, and Business.  I’m the Software and Autonomous Engineering Lead ... , my older brother Kevin Chan ‘17 M.Eng ‘18 wrote Because Racecar and it

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  big questions that I ask myself about any class that I'm considering ... [annotation note="Or whichever future semester I'm planning for."]this semester ... note="CI-M requirement"]focuses on technical writing[/annotation] and (4

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  “My name is Paige, and I'm a bit of an optimist. Or at least, I try to be. ... Beyond being an optimist, I'm a mathematician. Or at least ... that I’m working [annotation note="“Am I trying too hard?”"]too hard

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  , but i hope that i’m on my way. as i talked to friends that watched ... do not expect this to be an answer that is right forever. i’m sure that ... ://xkcd.com/2794 user 2: copying here since I'm frowning at the pathologizing in

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  dinner at the airport, then took another flight to Pittsburgh. I'm not much ... actually means in practice, but I'm certain there's an interpretation that ... the food then." "Nah, I'm an MIT senior," I said. "And I bet the dining

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  must. I’m not sure what I’ll spend the last hour doing; I suspect I will ... particularly difficult song that I’m probably going to have to listen to and look ... to see my friends tonight! It’s been a wild eighty hours, but I’m glad

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  . [annotation note="cough cough CJ; (CJ: “i'm a platonist on the weekdays and a ... section) I’m not talking about anything inherently original. Some of the ... whatever– but whatever the reason I just feel like I’m broken. My first year

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  in a language's words. This semester, I'm taking 24.901 Introduction to ... where the stress is. I'm not aware of many cases in English where this ... Tagalog has a lower ratio of consonants to vowels. I'm not talking about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  ="alignleft" width="283"] this picture makes me both very happy and very sad--i'm glad ... March, I was unable to experience it. Two years later, I'm a floor chair ... received the "Town Crier Award" since I'm notorious on the floor for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  grasp onto anything to ground you. I’m sick with longing for you. There ... so surface level and obvious and just so overdone/trite that I'm kind ... blood. But it is mine, and though my tongue may slip, I'm no longer the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  This year, I’m volunteering with the MIT Educational Council to ... reason that I’m blogging about this piece of advice is that in many of my ... .  I sometimes feel bad in saying “I don’t know”, because it feels like I'm

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  that I feel sums my experience up best - “I’m constantly amazed.” Nothing ... , cars doing their “I’m coming through” honk, and workers and sellers ... kept thinking “Yeah, I’m not this dark from tanning.” I also heard the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  you can probably tell from my stance in this picture I'm nowhere near ... French. I'm a little bit of a language nerd and I've been taking Spanish ... game. Finally, I'm just going to add that as an English-speaker, I'm

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  , though! I’ve been meaning to do some sort of college essay post while I’m ... -reflection and brainstorming that you put into your essays. The essay that I’m ... , I usually just say that I’m from Boston. My hometown, Nashua, isn

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  I'm definitely not going to be the only person to talk about this on ... many others for the past month. I'm not going to, nor would I like to ... /criticize anyone for what they've done. Instead, I'm going to give you the facts, as

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  (debatable, if I'm being honest with myself). Things turned out fine for me. I ... years. However, I’m sure not everyone is ok with this wily-nily method of ... putting a refrigerator flush against the wall. 9. Amazing GRTs – I’m sure

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  brainstorming, I’m partial to lying on the carpet in my living room floor with a ... (I usually go for two or five minutes depending on how ambitious I’m ... your hands. I’m stating the obvious here, but I think a lot of people

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  - thanks, Wikipedia: Mt. Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan at 3,776 m (12 ... Takuya, loyally trudging behind me in line, yelled "200 m to 10th station!" "Huh??" "200 m left! Yatta ne!" "We did it!" I yelled, flailing my arms

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  myself immediately faced with the question of: Should I enroll? I'm sure ... happened that season. (I'm not in this one) After working on Team 97 that ... rest of my life, but I'm starting to know a lot more about the last two

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  me to the potential of planning + computer science. I’m eager to study ... *will* have my smoothie. I’m an avid Mango Lassi enthusiast and ... generational gaps and differences. When my parents and I make breakfast, I’m on

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025