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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  a comment stating just that. Are you guys just out to get me or what? =P So Momchil, here are my thoughts, short sweet, and to the point: Everything you just said is wrong. People are just people. The end. And now I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  MIT PRIMES (a free, year-long after-school research program for high school students, run by our math department) are partnering for a new ... projects, [CrowdMath] will give advanced high school students a free

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  , if you’d like. What follows are this CPW’s super-exciting events at ... cred with Nerd Trivial Pursuit. When the categories are Literature, TV ... beautiful, cookies are sweet, tea is tasty. Come enjoy all three as we discuss

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  ) --- So when I signed on to be a blogger, I made a small promise to myself ... . :( OK I know you guys are all sick of the whole "I'm hosed!" talk, so I ... are curious on a more in-depth treatment of the topic) Since I've been

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The CPW Weather Machine Strikes Again a frivolous day in the sun and grass

  

  The weather sobered up just in time for CPW, and we celebrated the sunny warmth with a spring picnic. It was a day made for frivolity. I ... -making process (the part where he explains his thoughts leading up to using vinegar

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  CPW seems to be, confessed that they are intimidated by such a new ... be on alert, and it’s easy (especially when psets are happening) to ... tell) are pretty friendly. House 4 certainly is! They were very open and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  not here. They are 1,694 miles away, where I was born. Somedays, I ... stunning. Too stunning at times, which made it feel almost unreal. Back home ... jumpscare made my hands tremble and my heart pound tremendously fast. I had to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  , here, and here, as proof of what I usually say on Pi Day: If you are among the many stellar students to whom we are not offering admissions ... yourself. And if you spend the next few years trying to make wherever you are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  's conclusion, where at the end of the day all those cliches are, in Bo's words ... the time of my discovery) in about 3 weeks. It made me laugh, made me cry, made me stare at the ceiling at 3am and question my sense of self

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  where to live and who to spend time with and career choices and so on. i ... i’m still a little anxious, but i’ve also realized things are not as ... true that most actions are reversible and sometimes you just need to live

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  York’s JFK airport (where my trans-atlantic flight was leaving from) out ... -shocked that I had actually made it there before I was supposed to start teaching ... outside of Milan. It was the first of many instances where it seemed to me

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  concrete buildings as you walk from MIT Medical where you've just had blood ... time in which to draw on unexpired inspiration). There are incredible artists here, among students and faculty. And there are incredible resources

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  were made. Admissions data are an accretion of the the sediment which ... the thing which casts a shadow. It's the contours of where the light isn't. That's how our admissions data work. It shows you where the decision wasn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  might add, yeah me :-) I already knew where everything was. Sure, I kept ... got around to it. Every time I made time to go something came up ... yesterday gave me a new view. Now I'm sure that no two tours are exactly the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  -competitive environment where everyone pushes themselves to achieve more and people are ... realizing her interest in computer science, she naturally made the transition ... ;Headers,” which are advanced classes (e.g. 6.011, Introduction to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  are 4 of us!" So he rounded me, Keri, and Jess into the frame and had ... Program, or ESP. They put together all kinds of cool programs where MIT ... students are literally encouraged to "teach anything." You sign up to teach

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  live in Philly know that Girls High and Central are practically next door ... parents moved to Baltimore when I was two, which is where I grew up. But now ... counselors, I drove around Jersey a little bit, ending up at Chili's where I

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  of video game where you control a character and fight monsters in ... is different every time. The other key features are being turn ... namesake, is Rogue. A deckbuilder is a kind of card game where you maintain

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  wondered how it would feel to be back. The cliché goes that "home is where ... House where I live—[/annotation] and I was home. Not everything was the ... tested. Medical and Next are on opposite corners of campus, about

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  bloggers, blogs were...blogged to. Frosh: Are you excited to be a senior ... the comfort of a thriving campus community, where everyone I know lives no more than half a densely populated mile away -- made me miss the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011