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• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  personal information. by the end of the game, i'm pretty sure everyone knew ... one. it's nice to have slack in your schedule. and by slack, i don ... wanted to do a big task XYZ. they split it into three tasks, X, Y, and Z

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  of people of color, I need to spend as much time as I can in high ... kids from my high school taking home Fulbright scholarships. I want the ... I spent the last few days thinking about how I felt about the murder

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  , but I know in the end it's worth it. We're entering the time of year ... Some friends and I were chatting the other day, marveling at how ... Thanksgiving.) Maybe that's why I've been feeling run so ragged lately. And if

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  Happy New Year! I hope you guys are having a great 2008 so far ... second-semester senior really is pretty awesome; I still remember those days... enjoy them! 390 --> 522 I've been noticing lots of

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  in blood-searing vividity*. Not so. I ended up telling my friends back ... tossing around the idea of leaving high school a year early until I had ... otherwise I'd finish high school on schedule and deal with the minor

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  carried through the crossword by my friends[/caption] I'm hosed this week. But looking at my last, or next-to-last weeks, I was quite hosed too. I ... ="aligncenter" width="400"] every piece of red text is something I am doing later than I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

          I was making the trek from East Campus to the Z-Center one day when my favorite song of the musical theatre genre came on ("Seasons of Love" from Rent). As I belted out the ways they

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  who have already packed. They get to do this: I am not one of those ... but in the end it was totally worth it. For any prefrosh thinking of applying to MIT or admitted students who are still unsure/scared, I may be

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  MIT) that ends at 6:30 pm. I knew I wasn’t likely to get a good ... There are only a few authors whom I feel very strongly about, let ... Rhode Island, Lahiri spent some of her childhood in Boston and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  the most empathetic high school student, but I feel like I did my fair ... seemed trite, or contrived, or simply wrong. I ended up saying nothing at ... had paid off. Looking back at the end of the writing process, I realized

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  I had to find somewhere close by. I ended up staying over with friends ... . I rarely ever see any highschoolers at any of these events. That all changed when I went to Next Gen Summit. I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  I noticed something great about the MIT Admissions blogs as the days ... aspects of MIT. Then I noticed something that I had missed in my post. Pictures!  I need more pictures.  But of what?  I know, I'll show pictures of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  because I don't really see people wearing MIT hats, just sweaters generally ... City of Sin, Ben discovers the high-rolling life, explores his boundaries ... anyway, so I don't think this is such a big error as people make it out to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  nothing really matters or does everything? a tale of epiphanies and a crisis

  

  audience. I ended it on a high note and told everyone that the crisis was ... A while back I gave a presentation at MIT called Three Epiphanies and ... now as an assistant director and talking about the main things I learned

  • by kellen manning
  • May 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  Hometown: Verona, NJ High school: Verona High School College: Tufts ... History Favorite things about MIT: Personally, I love all the stereotypical ... things about Boston: Boston's nice, but to be honest I spend most of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  Rhode Island School of Design. I majored in Illustration and I knew I ... creatively engaging for me. So I’m like “ah, man I don’t know what to do.” Then ... to come and work on the show” and I was like “ah, man.” I would be

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  homework. Some days begin with silence. I woke up on Sunday morning, a ... tiles, and I laid in bed and watched for a while. Some mornings also begin with ringing alarm clocks, I thought, which seemed hilarious because

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  , because I was deeply unpopular in high school. And no, it wasn't some trying ... to as a "TikTok jacket." I'm technically part of Gen Z but I've never ... ended up returning the coat. But I was very grateful to the MIT community

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  towards the end. I'm not sure if you could sense it from where you were, but ... . I'll post answers to the puzzles you guys worked on and some to puzzles I wasn't able to show you. I hope you all had a good time, I know I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  that by the end of the night I was going to be forced to dance. Some ... ? maybe sad? I'm not sure). By the end I was tired, grabbed another cup of ... I'm ridin' on a dolphin, doin' flips and sh** Well, I kinda wish I

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009