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• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures of me

  

  One of the requested entries a while back was for me to post some ... -Halloween costume party. Beth '05 and Yelena '06 helped me put together the costume in under an hour. November '05. I don't remember if I was about to start

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  In less than a week I'll be hopping on my flight back to Boston, and I'm so excited that I'm just about ready to kiss the Logan Airport ... [annotation note="is this okay to say in a blog? let's hope so

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from a cherry pie that someone had brought into the office to share. As one ... responded that it was “good.”  That turned out to be an unsatisfactory

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  go from midterm to midterm. If we’re lucky, they go from pset to pset ... lives. We see that one kid that sits behind us in lecture. And to all of ... the past few months, I feel like we’ve really gotten to know each other

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  might want to be bloggers to SHARE YOUR SPECIAL TALENTS What does it mean to be an admissions blogger? Here is the opening paragraph from the blogger training manual that Lydia and I send to all the new bloggers during

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  I have known for some time that my approach to things can be unconventional.  You don't have to look any further than how I parent to really get ... ,  in favor of blank pages that forced them to create their own images

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  consciousness to turn it off, knowing that I won't need it after getting up so early. I turn a little bit in my bed before...contemplating going back to ... plenty of things to keep me occupied today, and all of these urgent reasons

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  I took the red-eye from LAX to Boston -- the flight leaves LA at 9 ... 'm still supposed to be leaving for Maine in 25 minutes. I haven't decided yet whether or not I'm going to repack or whether I'm just going to take

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  I just wanted to say that please don't give up hope, and I know that ... you choose to go - even if it's not at MIT. I want to share with you a story. Please take it as you will. Best of luck to you as you seek out

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  Try to find me in this picture! Just kidding, that’s a trick ... volunteers to man the Tim the Beaver costume that weekend, my response was, naturally, YES YES YES YES YES YES PLEASE!!! ME!!!!!! I managed to tone it

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  Italy over IAP. In October, I applied to MIT's Global Teaching Labs ... students qualified to teach Italian high schoolers some science, in English. I'd like to present my experience as 10 lessons-- not the ones I

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  (in addition to still blogging for MIT Admissions - sorry eager blogging frosh-to-be, my spot's still taken, but we're looking for more bloggers ... able to work close to home is a plus for me, but in my case, it still

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  Career Path to Motherhood." The author, Louise Story, speaks with several ... she speaks with aspires to be a lawyer and almost all plan to stop ... their kids start going to school. Many of them believe that a woman must

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  [/annotation] I've ever taken at MIT! Feel free to scroll through and take a look at ... to have some semblance of structure, I loosely based my ranking off of ... ! (Also, I clearly couldn't bear to put anything in the F tier lol. That

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  bloggers. I usually have to wait for inspiration to hit before I'm able to ... use a variety of tools to help me, from Evernote for keeping track of ideas to Google Docs when I collaborate with someone else. Last week I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  blog entry has to be about CPW, so I'm going to treat you to another story. I had very little physics experience when I came to MIT. I ... indicators, MIT does its best to make sure you end up in a physics class that

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  downstairs and took a walk, and the sun was setting. so i tried to find as high a point i could stand on to watch the sunset. i ended up walking to, i ... . in days like these the body feels like an inconvenience. i have to tend

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  would reply to the prompt "Tell me about yourself." The title and subtitle ... right now."]But I couldn't bring myself to write that post today ... . I woke up to a video of a black CNN reporter and his team being

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  Pretty much every day, I remind my friends that "if you come up to Boston, I'll find you a place to stay and show you around and we'll all ... really expect to happen. So, I was sitting at work on Friday afternoon

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... , so you should be sure you are prepared to receive your decision before

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2022