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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  the language out of respect to the original post."]Two weekends ago ... tape of the movie Hamlet for 2 dollars. I could practically hear my dad ... but today. They have good shakes and the rest of the food is pretty mid

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  , because I'm sure the rest of my blogs will have enough run-ons and comma ... prepared you to dive headlong into the rigors of MIT, but on the other end of ... in the form of your freshmen advisors. Freshmen advisors are faculty

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  experiences you listed earlier fit into the list of qualities. If you decide not ... the apex of a paragraph or your essay. Use as few syllables and commas ... endings: the end is the most powerful part of a sentence, paragraph, or

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  where i am Since the beginning of the fall semester of my senior ... looming blanket of anger or sadness underneath it. I noticed the change ... out of all the places there are to be at this time, they chose to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Central Square Dance Party You can even play the videos and dance along to them. It'll be like you…

  

  've been on for the past two months.*) A couple weekends ago the city of ... like you were there with us, here's a little bit of the evening: And in ... the puberty of internet history. **Did I just admit to everyone I watch

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  one of my labmates has a friend from elementary school who was on the latest season of love on the spectrum. another labmate watched it and told ... . i've come to peace with a lot of the things that kept me up late at

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  it around the house. Also, a lot of upperclassmen are interested in ... class into your already busy schedule. I have had the fortune of taking at ... her that I was a chemical engineer. She immediately gave me the names of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program

  

  ! (Check out some photos and videos from Ebony Affair here on the Class of ... ="113607" image4="113606" /]   Once most of the group arrived, we took a walk ... admissions office for dinner and met our hosts for the rest of the weekend

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 25, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  our ancestors diverged from the chimpanzee lineage. One of them is from ... to Wikipedia has "the highest magnetic strength of any element." Ah ... of London's financial districts: Canary Wharf. Here's a map of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  horror stories about the impossibility of maintaining a high GPA at MIT ... new major at Rice) and the fact that MIT seemed to provide a ton of ... /CogSci majors. Speaking from the perspective of a Course 7/9 (Bio and Brain

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  the best use of my time anymore. time management comes easier — i was ... solving it is the highlight of my week. i'm a soPhoMOre — now, i'm on the other side of recruitment. I'M the one holding interviews and auditions

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  , but then he was not admitted to the class of 2019. Here's his story ... the MIT early decision would be released. I ate all of them. They didn ... any of my “reach” schools, which was upsetting, to say the least. I was

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  , we had a greeter at the door to welcome them to our hall. Most of us ... This past Friday was the nth annual Tetazoo faculty dinner -  a great ... from across MIT, including our very own Chris Peterson! We decorated the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Two opportunities for high school students And you don't have to live near Cambridge, MA this time!

  

  the MIT Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is organizing for high school ... those of you near Cambridge, come check out the fair! And for those ... exciting events also presented by MIT Society of Women Engineers: The MIT SWE

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 28, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  content warning: multiple mentions of suicide.     the friday before the last one, i received some bad news. one of my close ... ever since. the past week and a half has been truly bad. and a lot of it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  much more productive over the past few weeks than i usually am. of course ... and eventual death by overdose. it’s probably one of the saddest things ... and lack of motivation, the cycles of therapy and relapse, the emotional

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  made a comment, half-joking, something to the effect of "I can't wait to ... 't ambitious didn't feel true. Maybe the problem is my definition of ambition. Do ... . I wanted to get into the best schools, I dreamt of MIT, and, well

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  ’m in Cambridge, reeling with a move cross-country and the start of the ... of beds dropped on the side of the road, cheap furniture selling fast ... week ago, and I’m more settled in now. I’m still getting the feel of my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  class about the art of creating electrical devices which use power ... consuming as it is awesome, so I've spent most of the last week staring at ... 've found some people to work with on some of the classes. Late nights always

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  advantage of it for sure, but wow, being in the middle of the semester and ... 've realized the importance of ~ self-care ~. indeed, sometimes, you have to put ... person. and honestly, finding these means of self-care so early in the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020