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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  to figure out a way to mesh these two ideas together, wanting to marry ... less than 48 hours to my next 6.006 midterm, I sit here contemplating the future and what is to come. This past four day weekend I treated myself

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  conner floor went to some random town in Maine for three days. our Airbnb ... Airbnb. plus, we brought healthy food and cooked together, which was unreal ... concerts firefly — four friends and i went to Dover, Delaware for three

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  "]DTYD[/annotation] LIV was on Sunday, so the days leading up to it were filled with events ... reason exists in Walker Memorial, right next to East Campus"]the Muddy[/annotation] and then headed straight to Bhangra practice. since Bhangra was the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  As of this weekend, I have watched Greta Gerwig’s 2023 blockbuster Barbie six (6) times. I have also cried to Greta Gerwig’s 2023 blockbuster ... ’s throats enough for society to collectively forget about the movie after last

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  rehearsal, “We’re going to Brazil!” Suddenly, samba music began blasting from ... works for several years. In fact, the trip to Brazil would likely have happened in 2020 if COVID hadn’t appeared and disrupted everything. Thanks to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  've learned how to play the long game, what hills are worth dying on, and what ... Every year, I try to set aside a chunk of time to reflecting on the ... , family gathering, friendly get-together or a significant project, write it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  responsible for setting up our major publications to print (like the Affording ... getting used to, four years on the job. For every publication I design that gets sent to press and mailed to thousands of prospective students, there

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  together — bless my seam ripper! Nevertheless, it felt good to have a nonzero ... about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used a ... desire to be quirky with a nonstandard prom dress. Unfortunately, my senior

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  to maintain my playlist game is to save 'monthly' playlists that i can ... that my friend jake and i want to learn together to sing together for our ... that...i made it! i made it into the game industry and got to work at a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  prospective 2023’s message expressing hesitation about choosing MIT. I think a lot of ppl are concerned about choosing MIT due to it being more ... want to do. We were in this boat as prefrosh, and then in our freshman

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  2023 is now live. While some have jumped at the chance to scope out the ... to wait until the very last minute. While I certainly won’t extol the ... doesn’t matter (e.g. has no impact on our decision) when you choose to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  [Editor’s note in 2023: This post contains outdated information. The ... not available. We will reach out to these students with instructions on how to submit their latest grades.]     Hi Everyone, The

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  in one place to experience something together: art. TANGENT I’m not a ... of it. My first Broadway Rave was on February 18th, 2023, thanks to an ... Wicked soundtrack with my THX speakers cranked up to MAX bass. I am AMPED

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  2023. It feels weird and maybe self-serving to say like "You might know ... , so he suggested running. To which I scoffed out but then I downloaded ... LOVE THAT GAME!) and I learned how to play Civ recently. It's been great

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  Do you ever stop to think about how incredible computers are? I don ... brain of your computer, each engineered and manufactured to near ... sand that we taught to add numbers (much, much better than humans can do

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  did you miss the EA deadline? why i applied and admissions anxiety

  

  . I decided to take more time with my MIT application and ended up ... realized that was what I wanted to do! I even emailed to ask more questions ... happy to be acknowledged!"]received a response[/annotation] to my email a

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 5, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  't agree with either of those sentiments. I like to think IAP is a sort of ... that Cambridge is a strange place to host a purgatory. I suppose I never ... single soul. Not one person. It is never like that in the fall. To make

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  to 3 Class of 2023 events. One was a tunnel hunt and it was a ton of ... had to leave MIT. I spent around 190 days at MIT. 185 of those days ... hours a week during IAP to prepare for our annual show...those hours stack

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  board (and video) games together. cj wasn't in our pod, but since i lived ... looking at all the games on that shelf earlier, when i wanted to play a ... your first spirit island game"]based on vibes.[/annotation] i happened to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  to be that kid recklessly hot gluing things together again. Lucky for ... tl;dr it’s cool to explore interests completely different from what ... response to the application essay question “what department or program at MIT

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023