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• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  our collective energy and intellect to solve the world’s biggest ... knowledge to bear on the world’s great challenges. MIT is dedicated to ... institution’s mission aligns with your own goals for the future, in addition to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  the last hour. I call this “The Finger,” because it’s what I will use to grip and switch a lever back and forth. It’s attached to a beam I’ll call ... . I’ve just been referring to this robot as “Big Man,” so I guess that’s

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  for me, as I spent all four years of college playing D3 soccer on MIT’s Women’s Soccer team! I was the first in my family of four kids (who all ... programs. It’s basically a big try out. "]ID camp[/annotation] at Harvard

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  -campus geology museum, or worshipping a second-edition copy of Newton’s Principia ... without ever getting old.  It’s now been nearly 3 years since I last saw most of my SSPeople in person, but that’s not to say they’re gone. We

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  "] barcelona, with casa battló in the background[/caption]   If there’s anything I’ve learned from being here this long, it’s that when the weather ... that’s all you need.' — paraphrased from the instructor on the first day

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  Linktree has a few links to my different donation incentives. It’s the first ... pantry at Jewish Family & Children’s Service (my favorite role is ... ). Anyone can receive food from this food pantry, but it’s the only one with

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  ) "The Wasteland" by T.S. Eliot because April is the cruelest month ... Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot Ulysses. this was just a ... . because love is so short, forgetting is so long. Delmore Schwartz’s Poems

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  there’s a distinct gap between the philosophies behind them when it comes ... reach a lofty bar that you set for yourself. It’s a challenge.   ... reason you’ve made up to justify that. It’s hard to say with confidence

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  first week of classes. CMS.S60 Rap Theory and Practice I'm taking two music-ish classes, 21M.150 Intro to Music Theory and CMS.S60 Rap Theory and Practice. Although Lupe himself has said that CMS.S60 is not a music

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  the episode’s dialogue remains true regardless of whether you believe in ... . sickness is a particularly relevant example because it’s one where your ... natural framing is negative energy and positive energy, so that’s what i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  to purely engage in small talk– and that’s okay! If I introduce myself and all you want to say is “This weather is wild” and “It’s that time of ... loaded “What’s your major?,” then the fun begins. I give the usual 30

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  , you know the feeling. About a month ago, MIT’s Musical Theater Guild ... lack motivation. I lack a creative outlet. Even though it’s left me sick ... with MIT’s hands-on, let’s-get-shit-done attitude, you get all kinds of

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  how much material it was, here are our allotted cheat sheets. There’s a ... ). We had a delicious Thanksgiving dinner at out uncle/aunt’s house, that ... , now we really like it. It’s 3D animated but made to look 2D by rendering

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  , watch some Netflix and fall asleep. It’s mundane and boring and exactly what I need. It’s the first time in the last two years that I’ve stopped ... fully address before. Why in God’s name did I declare Computer Science as

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  Project. Brainstorming, like...   6.S978 I'm taking 6.S978 (Privacy ... hand at legislative drafting. For example, *Carpenter v. U.S., U.S. v. Jones*, and Kyllo v. U.S. The class is taught in conjunction with

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  anyone’s love life, I definitely will not be giving you any advice ... (fortunately I’m pretty sure it’s the latter). Then one day I had a sort of ... exactly he meant by “hahaha” (I mean three ha’s?? Is that better than haha

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  , though it’s not like there are any prerequisite courses to finding this ... 's presented! Plus, it’s probably more fun to figure out your own position on the subject matter before reading someone else’s.. just a consideration. With

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  middle school resume, nearly all A’s with a single B from Spanish 1 in ... points above the program’s requirements. And again in middle school, they ... tilted her head slightly to the side, and smiled. I could feel my mother’s

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  Gogh’s Starry Night, the source of inspiration for a mural I painted in ... first time this happened, this disassociation, as it’s known as in the ... would be okay. The few people I did tell had trouble believing me. It’s

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  *) That’s right! Studying! Or psetting, or various academic ... overall was harder. There’s also a couple things I’ve been doing outside of ... you have never asked before, however meaningful (“When you came to the U.S

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015