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• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... might not think knowing how to stove-cook oatmeal is a useful skill. I ... landmarks, if I want to. I have no idea where I’m standing right now, but

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  to the district for a snack at Bova’s Bakery, where delicacies are ... available, however, the edge of the Long Wharf is a perfect place to sit and ... ’s Little Italy, for a chance to participate in the midnight hustle, grab a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  center, the baby will come flying out, to be caught in a net. The obvious ... in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I ... Abrahams' eyes settled on me, and I got to take a seat on stage. Next, he

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  desperate to find a home again.  My therapist told me, last semester, that my ... .  Maybe, this is a better way to explain it: I am still trying to live up to ... will come as a relief to you. A realization of a goal you’ve had for half

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  talking. The next day a friend invited me to have lunch with his friends ... , and I'll be graduating. That's probably the closest I'll ever come to a ... drinking soda without the fizz. Yeah, I've talked to people. I have a pod, we

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  be exhausting. I’m used to different college ways and interactions, a ... teenagers of ages fourteen to eighteen. This destination is a high school ... school in the MIT area to observe and assist with a STEM class for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  of frats hosted a boat cruise, where my friend took me along as his ... just happens to be a more interesting conversation partner than you are ... about our high schools. Malingap is someone offering to grill me a burger

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  this song. But apart from listening to that song, I am a sad sad toaster ... to make a graph of the number of credit-hours of class I've taken per ... heads off to bed, giving you a sympathetic "good night", until it's 3

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  or Drawphone or Skribbl. We could hop on a call and sing off-sync to ... , with a C. We could listen to music all afternoon, and I’ll tell you all ... I have to make, and for a night, it'd feel like I can stay at MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... Chris Peterson launched a project to highlight MIT's committment to ... the MIT Archives. A special thanks to the Archives staff! MIDDLE EAST

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to ... boots. Where the wind blows and the snowflakes start to fall is only ... 6 AM. I've come to rely on a natural light alarm clock to help me get

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge ... state of your paper. 3) you get a week to submit a rebuttal to address ... options were 1) submit a rebuttal to this conference, 2) withdraw from this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  to college, but he was sure that I was a great candidate for whatever ... wrong. This has got to be a joke. Anger: WHY the hell would they tell me ... can hurt a lot more for people with technical brains, because we tend to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like ... sent out a survey to the bloggers, asking them what their results were ... results. It turned out, there was a lot people had to say--about their

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  cites an example that equates choosing a class to putting together a group ... . So I will try a few different examples. If one is going to select a ... virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the ... a large folder of drafts, so I had to publish the most polished piece ... MIT and want everyone to feel empowered to do it too. MIT is not just a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... stark contrast to mindlessly lounging on a couch, you could try taking a ... Jeff ‘18: you're great roommates. To be fair, I’ve had this coming for a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into ... students here who could build a giant flamethrowing exoskeleton to invade ... man who built a 20 foot flamethrowing exoskeleton in my linkdump post a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make ... ’t possibly hurt, he made his way to Shaw’s, a grocery store, braving and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015