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• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  the first semester was going to go exactly to plan. i was gonna be a ... that's been going on. that's why i'm going to take this time to blog my ~feelings~ and understand really my position. if i had to label my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  this season (in fact, it's the first undefeated season ever), leading to ... gotta come. My first thought was to let a couple of my friends from high ... feel like: So I just made a vlog to get back in the rhythm of filming

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  we didn't go to the space needle. First, we went on a duck tour of ... the space needle, the first thing you notice has nothing to do with the ... .mitadmissions.org/topics/life/student_life_culture/blogger_application_2010.shtml">Blogger Application 2010 is due to me by email by Monday

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  -on Introduction to DNA! to seventh through ninth graders at Spark, a day ... and community members. ESP seems to contain most of my Random Hall ... Math, and classes you might not expect, such as How to Plan and Execute

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  aging as I do. My mom, for the first time, has started to look at my skin ... this happens; It’s probably some combination of the pressure to be happy ... you ought to be.  For the past few years, birthdays have also just been

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  identity, and I needed to experience it like this – mundane, first-hand, by ... ’t think about physics at all for the first half of 2020, and then I got to ... course, in all the things that we’d like to be able to leave behind. But at

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  acclimating us to the world of comic writing. She spent the first part of the ... seemed to be a consensus among a bunch of people I talked to that this was ... something really, really rad also happened this week, and I want to tell you

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  talk to on the topic of expression and creativity, and Sienna was first ... the first three videos I’ve ever intentionally worked hard to produce. I ... , taught by Professor Vivek Bald. Learning to make videos was a goal of mine

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  Today is May 1, the conventional deadline for admitted students to ... haven't completely decided. I shouldn't give you more things to read as a ... from the archives related to this decision, the one you're nominally in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  Some parents wrote to me and asked me to contribute my opinions to a College Confidential thread about the pressure to load up on AP classes. Obviously my response is directed to parents, but I thought it was important

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  At this point, the admission website must appear to be "all about CPW, all the time" and to a large extent our office is that way too. We're getting ready to welcome the prefrosh and their parents to four days of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  broken out terribly due to an unfortunate combination of sunscreen and ... Fahrenheit. Still, it's my first summer spent almost completely in New England, and while the weather leaves much to be desired, there is still a lot of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  , in front of me is the Jeremy, behind me is Ariel, DJ to my left, and ... tangibly real, to digitized clusters of pixels on a Zoom call. What is "real" anymore? In an effort to figure that out I wanted to have a conversation

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  bags to make our car dip just a little bit. To my left in the line for ... of those," my dad laughs. We are headed to Cambridge, to MIT. My ... States; I guess this is just the first small difference in a long line of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  ? How did you actually- did you talk to someone? Holly: Oh, well, first ... : Particularly now, well. So, first of all, the news system, similar to the music ... contributions from another student). Our interview is transcribed below, but first

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  , went to my first bar in Boston, and stayed up into the wee hours ... the first week of October, but didn't get to it, so I'll continue the ... finish up a 6.046 pset. I watched First Man that night to try to forget all

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  offers 57334534923 (not a hyperbole) convincing reasons to attend, to me ... Frank Sinatra in New York, New York: these vagabond shoes were longing to ... shoes to go to school there. Not one bit. But if it was anywhere in

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  we are happy with, so we want to write about the whole process! First ... course 6 class we wanted to take. Last semester, we finally took 6 ... shopped around for a few different course 6 classes in the first week of the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  -narrative dissociative world...by the time you get to your first kiss, you've watched so ... I have so many things and so little space, but I'll try my best to ... . As a long-time fan of Bo Burnham, it was absolutely surreal to see him

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  [/caption] This rice cooker holds a special place in my heart compared to our other kitchen appliances. It originally belonged to my aunt, but she sent it to my family a few weeks after we came to America. At this point, we didn’t have

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020