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• Blog / Admissions

  A Beautiful Day

  

  "bridge circuit"), and lots of sailboats in today's gusting wind. It made me ... conversations. So, look for me, Ben, Daniel, Mitra, and more on Saturday night

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  The burning question in my in-box is "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Will you look at my app and tell me what I did wrong? Why was I not good enough?" Certainly an honest and worthy question, and you have

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  . That makes me sad, but I can live with it, thanks to the rest of you ... they didn't receive the big envelope. For me, seeing the admitted ... me who you are (email address below), I'd be psyched to read your essay

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  reminded me of MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellow Amy Smith's International ... Wall Street to work at MIT is because MIT's mission inspires me. We are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  I came into my office on Friday and guess what was waiting for me? That's right -- the first completed folders of the year. The brown ... admissions officers sat next to me at a college fair last week in Chicago

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  me wonder why I don't see more people listing fishing as an activity on ... ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  the ocean, partitioned by the faintest, haziest stroke. In front of me, the glistening sun rays dance on the water and, behind me, a night ... friend right now? Where would I want them to take me? What would be

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  nagging at me as I start turning hiking into a hobby. First is a feeling of ... around me have picked up, or tried at least once. In a similar way, hiking ... when they tell me that they like hiking or bouldering or any other

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  muscle fiber in your body, thrashing your fins wildly. As you near the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  ’s hearts. I spent nearly four hours talking to them about WISE, most of which

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  very involved, so we cannot write about it nearly as much as we want to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  attendance has been nearly a 100%, a testament to how much students appreciate

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  me through the fall. I would idly look at different routes, and ... me, it all started with [annotation note="MISTI (MIT International ... that they had provided me with the wrong information.  For a short while

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  thing with me and math is that it’s not necessarily as if i’m bad at math ... computations with fractions kind of scare me but i still really appreciate how ... . writing is an intimidating process for me, i subconsciously put a lot of

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  .[/annotation] It’s helped me edit, and in turn, write better, since I can more ... , with bullet points, ideas yelled back at me in ALL CAPS so I don’t forget ... another bridge to take me to the other side of storrow drive, a major

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  away from any of the other holes, instructor Conti asked me if I knew which shot that was. I said it was the sixth shot. He asked me what was wrong, and I told him that my arm felt tired. He told me to learn from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  , my PI of three years made a suggestion. He wanted to nominate me for a ... I really had one place that wanted me there on January 9th. I guess ... behind me, like when you're walking in the evening and someone who walks

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  ! Well, except for..." Except for the cooking. Cue shrug from me. At just ... story about senior-year me. Of now-me, I will say only that necessity ... for me! Flash forward like two months. It's October of freshman year, I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018

  

  stats with me, because we are curious beavers who eat data. It seems like ... inevitably care for me in my old age to play music that I actually like.   ... ):   Blogger: Me First song listened to in 2018: "m.A.A.d city" by

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 4, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  . Instead, someone turned to me and said, “did you know, you have a lovely ... . But the thing that actually got me here to MIT was stubborn ... classes and activities that would prepare me for those requirements in high

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017