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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  Summit. "I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other ... provocative in such a volatile, fast-paced media world. Obviously, he's said ... , THIS IS NOT A GOOD TAKE ANYMORE SINCE HE KINDA SUCKS!!!! Specifically, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  gets thrown around a lot in the context of life, MIT, what comes after ... started. Now, it feels more like I'm in a sprint, going through my classes ... before your mind does. I started working at the MIT Museum Studio, a cool

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  observed but did not participate in. I swung on a rope swing and stacked milk ... , everyone’s focus is shifting. EC is here and I’m living in it, but it’s a ... . What makes a place? If you were plopped down in a medieval castle, you

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  ’m a lot better adjusted now than I was in high school, and I might have ... to me. Finally just before I left, his mom gave me a hug: “You ... the couch scraping a spoon around your bowl and I lie in bed falling

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  've been in Germany for a little over a week now and I've already climbed 509 ... 200 miles by train in a single day. Amazing Race 13, here I come. My ... , in a wide array of languages. I just couldn't believe that so many

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  , check out a previous entry). It was held at the Boston Public Library, which I had never been to before. Here are some pictures: As you can see from the pictures, it was a beautiful venue which I had never been

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  signed up for it. Apparently it was not. I have not turned in a single pset ... , and I want to do well in them.  I had a talk with my instructor in 2 ... . In defeat, I looked at my phone and saw a message in a Cru group chat

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  words or fewer) Although you may not yet know what you want to major in ... announcing these prompts last year: People often ask me, "How do I stand out in ... admissions, I've probably read over 100,000 essays; after a certain point

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  things to do with their time. I know that after such a long school year ... came to MIT, it started way back in high school. So here are a few ... you. Why? Because I care. ________________________________________ 1. A

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  answer." In some regards, I was considering a LAC when I applied to ... (which is present in my language classes before MIT). What's even more ... I took four HASS classes this semester. What, stop looking at me

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  if I’ve heard of the program before. This is kind of like forums in ... schools I looked at. A friend of mine is applying for grad schools in a more ... you get to know  Now I’m in a big city. I don’t go out into Boston as

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  have actually met in person before (when that was still a thing that ... 't solve everything. All in all, I had a transformative experience that has ... think) a better, more thoughtful person. At some point in college, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  forty pages flipped in a minute). I prepared. I found some integrals ... fractions is a total drag. Anyways, I waltzed in for the written portion ... question: what is an integration bee? Yeah, I know. It’s a little

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  , chug coffee, drop out of school and go live in the mountains as a goat ... /GPA/extracurriculars/social media presence/Hogwarts house. I did all of those things, back in the ... start failing classes. I know senioritis is coming in strong but hang in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  decide to give Too Good To Go [annotation note="hahaha see what i did there..."]a ... useful.  If you’re planning to forgo a mealplan, I’d recommend that you ... note="Disclaimer: i'm not sponsored, I just think that TGTG is a great

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  have popped up in my blog before...you're correct, incidentally, that ... the pipe. The rest of it looked like something in a elementary school ... Little Dome in ten-degree weather, or making the information kiosk play a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Marking time Somewhere between the end of classes and graduation...

  

  the summer. This is my third summer in a row in Cambridge, and I wouldn ... you get to campus. I did not follow this advice when I was a freshman ... only moving to a different room on the same floor, so I roughed it out

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  yeah, I haven't written a blog in too long anyways, so I owe all of you ... as a model to see what these genes actually do by knocking them out in ... a long "research paper" at the end of the semester, I have been in lab

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  boyfriend: "I don't know, but I wish I could ride in a boat that's being towed ... are [annotation note="34, in fact"]a ton[/annotation] of beautiful ... a 20-minute ferry to Spectacle Island! I visited the island on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Applications… Things are getting busy here at MIT Admissions!

  

  ! Yesterday, a student came in my office and said, "Pink! I've never ... pink) There are many, many applications to be reviewed. I know some of you have been checking the Application Tracking System on MyMIT, and may

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2007