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  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  is the medium of instruction" school. My school offers a very limited ... any way of knowing what the admission decision is online or through e ... to the word limit for the essays, a lot of space is left over in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  event. The excitement of the new Class exploring MIT is extremely ... a reasonable fraction of the 700+ events to attend? I was definitely one of the more anxious pre-frosh two years ago, so I figured it might

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  It's that time of the year where everything winds down and you might ... towards the end of high school, my friends and I would religiously check the ... likes our Facebook profile pictures were getting. At the end of it all, we

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! 🦃 Yara has a peath sign on her head!

  

  brace myself for the number of times I plan to hear it on Thanksgiving day ... , hearing the sound of my siblings laughing in the kitchen. And one of the ... food, but also 2) intentionally offer dishes from a variety of cultures

  • by Hala K. '29
  • November 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  -winded way of explaining that I just finished reading The Lying Lives of Adults ... Naples who, over the course of her adolescence, learns of many deceptions ... 's pleasure. I suppose the book is more of a collection of observations about

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  support services does MIT provide?  MIT offers a lot of resources. The ... conference at MIT. One of the events was a student panel, and I got to ... not represent the views of other students. For diverse personal takes on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  awake this early. Of the four people I'm sharing a room with, I'm the ... bed and put on pants. The smell of scrambled eggs brings me downstairs ... rooms. And there was no one else on the floor, but I'd hear the voices of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  My fellow readers of the MIT Admissions blogs, a great tragedy has befallen us today. The favorite dining spot of hundreds of students on campus ... the entirety of the MIT campus. Indeed, what does the Stud have left to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  unfortunately, at my work place, to the highest of high-end seat-warming bidets ... complete, Japan's variety in chosen tool of sewage disposal truly brings the ... - and much like their toilet, living in Tokyo offers different type of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  So one of the unfortunate parts of graduating is that you actually have to pack up your life from the past four years.  No more of this, "I ... a member of the rowing team, I have had the same locker at the Pierce

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  simultaneously trying to be kind to the institution that gives me the privilege of ... immensely this spring. More so than past semesters, not only because of the pandemic, but because of the way MIT administration has handled this pandemic

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  the inky blackness of words on a page because honestly, when we have 198 pages of lecture notes to get through, the last thing we want to concern ourselves with is the existential crisis of some whiteness. But when something

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  advantage of all the cool resources Metropolis has to offer and to finally ... One of my favorite places on campus is the Metropolis makerspace. It ... possible. Kind of a tangent, but I want to shout out the fact that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  The sky is falling! Either a huge cottonball just exploded or it's snowing.

  

  And so it begins. The first snow of the term has arrived. Kresge in the snow! Later that cold October evening, the snow turned into rain.

  • by Bryan
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  -minute cramming for that week of IB exams, SAT Subject tests, the June SAT (is that ... to gal for SAT tests, they are my forte in the world of arbitrary ... prepared for the last three of those in just two hellish weeks of cramming

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  until the end of freshman year, at which point we can declare "undeclared"; we then have until the end of sophomore year to declare an actual major ... do it for free. I'm not just saying that. Really. This is one of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  Every year, I try to set aside a chunk of time to reflecting on the year. This is usually done in the form of setting New Year's resolutions ... the areas below and ask yourself what the significant events in each of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  'd do a bit of a tour. I invite you to walk with me from the front door ... outside. I'll be honest - I'm not the biggest fan of the architectural ... well as the design of the little overhangs on the [annotation note

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  to a couple of people in the room. Chris M (of blogger fame) has one ... applied for the job and after a couple of phone interviews and some ... headshots, more interviews, and then Chris had a job! After the job offer we

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  institute is always churning.  tick There's a constant sound in the back of my ... quietest moments of the night, you can find someone mulling away over work. Any time of day I walk through campus—like the rare and dreadful 4am

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024