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• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  these past few months, like Celeste or Night in the Woods. Well, the one I ... deckbuilding roguelike that I've poured over sixty hours into. If you can't tell ... of video game where you control a character and fight monsters in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  that I've come so far, that a personality could change so much in the ... think I've made a lot of steps in the right direction and I'm really proud of where I am. And I've tried to type this sentence out again and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  , looking at every project I can find. But today, I was there to attend the ... aren't the newest thing around but I've never seen one in person before ... came from someone in the audience. I'm not sure of the details but I knew

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  applications - i.e. in yesterday's lecture, where we discussed the limitations of ... in a place called "Malinckrodt". (I wasn't an Orientation Leader in ... buddy and lab partner, so you can see why I'm taking Harvard classes

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  After my rejection from MIT in my prior post, I attended Cornell for ... —eat rejection for breakfast, I'm sure. For many, rejection can be debilitating ... talk I submitted was unceremoniously declined. After we moved in 2021

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  people, or really any situation where I can’t blend into the crowd.  Hair ... have some experience in. I know my hair, so I can experiment with it. I ... =" seriously, I can't stop fantasizing about a life where work ends at 5PM. If

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  different places where I fit in. five But I think it's fine, it's cool But I ... and can you follow back 'cause it's my birthday?" No one cares what I ... if i like feeling bad so i can keep getting all of this attention

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  'll cross my fingers for that. In either case, I'm planning to take my ... little Christmas tree in front of the Student Center. I saw this snowman ... fete, with more Nobel laureates than you can shake a stick at in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  the final or do the final project but you can make it up some time in ... in hopes that I would be better by Monday, but when that didn’t happen ... advised me to ask for an “OX” in the class if I wasn’t feeling better by the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  A year back I developed a deep interest in understanding what made me ... their food that it’s become deeply engrained in who I am. The other side ... -flopper. No opinion I held was ever set in stone. All it took was a conflicting

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  finally done it. I've reached a point where I can forgive them. When I think ... lounging in my work office as I finished work. When it came to a close, I felt a bundle of knots in my stomach and I braced myself because it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Weekend Update A couple FAQs and others tidbits.

  

  , and to await the Next Big Mailing (NBM) in May. 2. Yes, I will be ... ) this year in Indianapolis. It will be on Thursday, May 11. I'll fill you in on all of the details soon. Relatedly, I will also be doing a small

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  glow. I’m sitting on a cold concrete slab, where the tides would normally spill over. I look out into the distance and squint at where the sky meets ... moments are important. You can make memories and build connections. But, in

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  something was probably wrong after I had been sitting alone in the x-ray room ... the results. Oh well. Next, I spent a week in California at my first ... and was full of ambitions to write all about my time in China. I guess I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  MIT in general, I knew I had to get cracking on this list. The Prudential Center peeks over the Back Bay Fens, where Boston citizens can ... MIT students can get in for free any day with a student ID). Looks like

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  away from where I live. We spent the first two or so hours in a car ... from the future. I got a crash course in not burning out - and my mentor ... ocean (or just water in general) and I have had an interesting

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Events

  July 4th Pictorial FIREWORKS!

  

  So where did I decide to watch the fireworks from? C! The MIT Sailing Pavillion Now I'll tell you why, after I show you everything else ... excited electrons in the sky. I stopped by Ashdown (grad dorm) for free

  • by Bryan
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  #9 Dream Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse! Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse!

  

  huge championship boxing match, and I was in the control room where they ... studying, and also so you can judge how cool I am as a person by my musical ... DID YOU KNOW? Stonehenge is not in Scotland. Okay, another cop

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  will be okay when I'm not...in the okay. But then I think back to where ... for the first time in my life and I will be simply doing whatever the ... application, I wrote a sample blogpost in response to the prompt 'What is your

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  very appealing. Maggie: I actually had a phase in high school where I ... chance, which is why I’ve been reaching out to others in the GEL Program ... some video up in this blog. Joe ‘12, Kevin ‘11, and I met up to talk

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011