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• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  know what i'm doing with myself, and it's a really good feeling) and am ... the culture at simmons seems a lot more structured than what i ... friday," where i found a free cashmere sweater in my size :) the garment

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  [annotation note="Essentially, I am starting my MEng in EECS while completing a ... hours on end. So on a random evening after work in August, I spontaneously ... MIT, I was always in a rush; I self-identify as a meticulous planner

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  I should stick with a safe topic, like failing my driver's ed test or ... irrevocably changed in many ways (my meme game has improved exponentially), I am ... 's what I wrote about, and what I would change if I could do it all over

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  orientation and jumped right in, learning the campus as a student. What did I ... me...I had never been on a campus tour...before yesterday, that is. It ... telling myself that I should take the time and see what it is the tour

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  i will never be a student again, that there is a world in which in 2 ... . but i think in the last year, things have started to take a bit more of ... school assignment process. heck, i'm in the UK right now looking at a whole

  • by Phi A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  downsides. I think this comic does a great job summarizing: ___ ___ You ... 't. Ok, maybe not "held to a standard," but people do look at you in a different light and expect you to be the expert in everything. Trust me, this

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  . The event goes well, though lasts a little long; I should figure out how ... Rockwell Cage. I see a friend in the crowd. I tell him that I'm trying to ... answer myself. I sleep at five in the morning, exhausted from a day of CPW

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  is 2 a.m. He said “so what; don’t waste inspiration.” I looked at him ... experiment I use to help keep my priorities in check. Imagine yourself in 50 ... knowledge to people around the world for free, it should and would. I was busy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect ... keep your eyes peeled for what's important to you in a college, and do ... Preview Weekend (CPW), I figured it would be worthwhile to spend a little

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  have passed (read: the 4th) so what's your favorite blogger up to? I don't know, I'll go ask Yan. But if you're interested in what your 4th or maybe ... vomited in their mouths a little). I miss waking up and looking out and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  official term.  In the fall of senior year, I got my first D in a mostly ... had a hard time concentrating on studying what I’d missed. I passed the ... fortunate to get a D. In fact, I hadn’t been that happy about a grade since my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  what things were like back in the day, the next night i'm in a hallway ... scheduled, what do i do? lie in bed all day. snack too much. play video games ... 's a pattern. there should be one, right? i feel like if i took one of my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  are good for you). Also, before I get to the list, a disclaimer: R ... . In fact, I spent a good 20 minutes listening to some super ... What all started as a blatant rip-off of Kris's post on summer

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  should retake the SATs until you get a perfect score. And that’s not what I ... know this is like a glorified "what they said", but really, I couldn ... Charles every year; it's a pretty big festival, from what I saw.) You

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  it's difficult to detach myself from what I make. I pour a bit of my ... close enough to that. I justify it in the sense that, having a regular ... about themselves. I want to tell myself that maybe some of them are in a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  sentence out of a book report that I wrote about Death of a Salesman in 10th ... afternoon and feeling compulsively drawn toward what I previously considered a ... in the superficial sense, bearing no deeper significance than that I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

    As I began to better understand what it means for a place to be ... to be a senior. Before I close my eyes and finally go to sleep, I can ... positively absolutely should be asleep right now, I’m not. I know that classes

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  am I looking for? What/who would make me happy? What do I want in a ... 't properly describe in full, but I'm sure you're imagining a similar feeling in ... abstract concept that I don’t think anyone can describe completely in a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Updates Online & postal decisions, matching Pell Grants, and reading continues.

  

  much to add beyond what you've already read elsewhere, but I do want to ... a standard business-sized envelope. In other admissions-related news ... federal government to support education in low-income families. I'm proud of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  time off from MIT. I ended up attending classes at a local university in ... in a forest. I learned to shape glass. My remaining time at MIT wasn ... coding aspects I should learn in preparation. Volunteering myself for high

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014