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• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  you know where you can have a good laugh if you're having a bad day.) I ... I can't even begin to explain it. When I do get to MIT, I'm planning ... ) and I have horror movie marathons where we stay up all night watching

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  first → "Oof, I don't think I can come" → Do some TA work Go to sleep ... until dinner. The events in the game are pretty faithful to what I did on Friday, September 30, but I had to invent what happened in the branches I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  from CPW in the Rainbow Lounge the morning before, where I relaxed in a ... these tools in better ways in the future. The message was: how can we even ... teens hadn”t seen me for four days in a row and I knew that they would

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  I believed in my abilities so much that I genuinely go around telling ... life"]26-100[/annotation], but I was in[annotation note = "A separate ... because I generally enjoy this class? I did debate in high school so I have

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  survival as living things in the desert only can. Let the tattoo remind me of ... in the coming month, so I felt suddenly inspired to get one now. It ... street fairs. My mom sat in my chair, and I on the floor, which is cement

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  occurrence (where do these occurrences come from? I'm the most ridiculous ... brought it in pieces over from Ireland (I meant Patrick the IRISH Irish, not ... where nothing makes sense, and to this day I am inspired by his dedication

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  first week of classes. It was a fun time, in the sense that I enjoyed every event individually, but, in combination, it exhausted me. I felt ... to make the exact same set of mistakes as last year. I landed in Boston

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred ... in and day out. extremely smart? again, i wouldn’t object, but i ... ways (except parenting, which i currently have no interest in). but right

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  Hey everyone! My name's Allison.Well, I officially arrived in Boston ... Providence to Boston (I'm actually from San Diego, but our plane landed in ... decided to roam around the campus for an hour. Of course, I ended up in the

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Pictures that don’t belong anywhere else – Part I because i'm a slackslackslackball.

  

  REUSING some of the pictures I took for the viewbook.) A double in East ... graduated last year, I believe). A single in New House (German House): A single in Simmons Hall: (there's a window under her desk. I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  boxes in Saran Wrap. Inside the boxes, I carefully loaded all of my ... , which I framed and padded with my winter coat. Then, in a thick black ... conveyor belt at security, I was fighting tears. At the gate, I sat in a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  together to finish my degree. In fact I can proceed at a comfortable pace. I ... classes in previous terms I could have graduated by now!" But I am not ... 4th to come. At least, I can't. :D But at least I am done with grad

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  are indecisive as heck. It was around this point in time where I found ... branches/paths I can take with certain majors. Such as specializations in ... compensation, newfound freedom in class selection For many weeks, I couldn

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  hands to pull in the rope. But you can NEVER LET GO of the rudder! So I ... Tonight I was in an MIT admissions webcast, which was targeted ... everyone my sailing story over and over because I can tell it to everyone

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  one foot in front of another, proving to myself that I can just keep, on ... about a month ago, in the sense that Petey and I penciled in a date, and ... itself. In the two days before the marathon, I made a Google Doc estimating

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  tries to remember my blogging username/password. So then, where have I ... a very challenging year in which to select a class. Nevertheless, I ... MIT Media Lab. You can read more in thousands of articles across the web

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  kind of works on my phone, and since I have the VPN I can access ... products). We (my mom and I) arrived in Shanghai last night. Today (June 3rd ... choice in going back to China. But I felt a pang of both regret and longing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  there was this time three weeks ago, when i was still living in baker ... front of the house. i think that was the first time in five months that i ... felt my feet in contact with my slippers, i felt anchored, i felt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  looks like that. I hadn't been to a baseball game in a while, and I ... certainly an unusual place. Case in point: no one really asks how your day is ... place one week at a time. For me, each week is like a round in a boxing

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  've been in a while. Sometimes I'm afraid that I'm not 'MIT' enough to blog ... - Fundamentals of Ecology i.e. everything I've ever wanted in a biology class here ... before. Art is taken seriously, and I can feel my observation

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015