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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  -ended questions that are designed to spur internal dialog. This is where life ... schools that sent you a "fat packet". Regardless of where you were admitted ... they are not looking, but that's another entry). So call mom and/or dad

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  Turkish roots, where food is used to bring people together) and this class ... sample everything they made. Through the class, we learned to make red wine ... this IAP. As a Mechanical Engineering (Course 2) major, we are required

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  ." The rules are pretty straightforward: 60 shots, one hour and forty ... shot points, where you shot, and where the center of your grouping is. It ... . If you'll recall where we left off, I was in the the hotel room after

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  to other schools that are spewing their judgments at you all of this ... , their decisions are real enough to be on your mind, but not all real ... can aggressively remind you of how awesome a person you are, and how the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  gun safety. After Pistol, I booked it over to Harvard Square, where ... back to my room, then to the kitchen, where people were waiting in the ... , where the other 2014s were waiting with a bottle of wine. We toasted, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  made entirely out of network cables. While we used only one material, we ... Robin - "Our design is a tribute to the Standing Rock-DAPL crisis where ... - "Made from abandoned Bain & Company and Goldman Sachs flyers, Bain of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016