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• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  as we have had in the past where students can explain anything in their ... where I can snap my fingers and somehow mass hypnotize every administrator ... read on our "What we look for" page, or that my response to "how can I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  I was in the right seat. ...Nope. I moved. In case I hadn't caused ... made it in one piece. This afternoon, I arrived at my hotel and for a few ... "LARPing". My elevator company included a guy in a full cat costume (I only

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  :) Explore the different dorms!  I knew I wanted to live in Burton-Conner as ... , and I remember it was nice being able to ask students questions in a ... I wasn't initially interested in!" "Highly recommend trying Mike

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Excitement On The Road Adventures in the Princeton Hospital ER.

  

  So Marilee and I spent much of last night in the ER at Princeton Hospital with a co-worker who ate some shellfish and puffed up nicely. (I won't tell you which co-worker unless he/she tells me I can. :-) But this was

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  hold a place in my heart for Colorado, and I will be comfortable where ... turned in all my papers. I wrote this entry from the airplane on the way ... now. It is where I am the person I want to be. Even though I have been

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  I can’t even sleep through the night? That night, I lay in bed ... to go home, but you can’t stay here. In truth, I’m one of the lucky ... in when there’s breaking news every few hours), but I went on anyway

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  deliberation over the like seven kinds of acrylic paint you can buy at Blick's. I ... the fall semester, and sometime late in IAP, I hit on the idea of a ... plan in place, I resolved to finish my door by the end of IAP. And, well

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  black sesame powder.)   In any case, I can't believe there are only ... this IAP?" "Oh, you know. I'm working at a startup in San Francisco ... in New York to doing research in Hong Kong. Naturally I gravitated

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  stories. “Not every day” for me was a few weeks ago when I landed in this ... -shirts, glorious T-shirts: I may have exaggerated a bit in the title. In reality, I ... outfits that weren't in my suitcase when I got here. A chunk of a car

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  thousand alternate worlds where I spend a summer in NYC in a thousand ... ’m still unclear about my path ahead, I have peace in my confidence that I can and will figure it out. Despite my fears of losing community, I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  programming languages. I live in Seattle now, where I work on power management ... messages, added some people on LinkedIn, said where I was going. I went on ... I can no longer remember everything we did. I'm in Boston again, and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  [April 14th, 2020] It’s 4:14 am. I’m sitting in bed, laughing by ... conditions. I could sit here and write until I’m blue in the face about how ... up when I’m fading out and who turn the little windy thing in my back

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  content warning: mental health, trauma 1   I've been in a ... ; Last semester, I went through tough times. things were going on in my ... healthy habit or two. setting boundaries where I need them. carving out time

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  compass. But he did. I hope you can understand why many people are in ... Sandusky will live the rest of his life in jail. I can't believe that all ... Two weeks ago, while visiting my family in State College, I got to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  an MIT professor and an expert in both linguistics and politics. I ... good fit for them. But, if they would like to take classes in Major ... , I attended an event called: “A Conversation with Noam Chomsky- No More

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  Lower Allston. Boston is a completely different place in summer and i ... 't for me working outside — a few weeks ago, i gathered the freshmen in ... Bridge ⁠— god i can't even describe how happy this makes me. i love how the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  lesson in Italian: "Voray ordinare" Translation: I would like to order ... Pizza Now here in the US, I've heard this pizza referred to as a "Blonde ... joke that I'm not going to say in my blog for fear of offending my yellow

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I don’t like SPAM! Technology to the rescue!

  

  I know you’re already thinking to yourself, “Where is Dave going to ... much to bear. You can relax, because today I’m taking the high road. That’s in no small part because I really dislike computer SPAM. We

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do ... you. Unfortunately, I can't do that yet, but I can write these ... Wednesday I had marching band practice and no time in between class and work

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  just being myself in my life, right where I am, is like, enough." So go ... , but there is one thing that I am confident in recommending to you. (And ... ] You can't put on your resume things that you don't [do] Here in 3

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005