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• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  pleasure of it”: video games! “What do you want to major in”: 18C, with a ... send me to programming camp to learn how to most optimally hack the game ... to learn Japanese so that I could play the game in its original

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  your life together…I’m trying to clarify my values and truly figure out ... good, too. Is my life more "together" than it was before? Difficult to ... I decided this summer was the summer I’d get my life together, once

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  Once upon an IAP, there were 5 externs* who were lucky enough to be selected to work at a magical company called 5 Wits Productions, where many adventures awaited them. For you see, engineers at 5 Wits got to bring

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  until I got to MIT my freshman year. I got a pair for $25 with kneepads, elbowpads, and wristguards at Goodwill. I had always wanted to learn, but living near hills made it too intimidating to learn. The area around MIT

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  improvements such as the introduction of undergraduate TAs to bridge the gap ... .02 (Electricity and Magnetism) subjects that most all MIT students take to giving up hours of their time to making sure students feel comfortable with the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  A few weeks ago we posted this video to announce our decision date, 3 ... figured I'd blog about how and why we did it. The Idea According to my inbox ... students their decision letters in tubes, a practice that dates back to when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  't purchase any. I downloaded practice tests, but he didn't want to bother with ... Mitski songs, but I went to her concert anyway because the songs I did know ... vocalist that sounded similar to Mitski. All the merchandise was expensive

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  note="i like to think of myself as a Real Adult"]Real Real Adults ... year to year, though the format has changed slightly since my day. Two ... managed to get my hands on it once again. And, because my favorite thing to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  in the sand. I walked to the Harvard Bridge with a friend to sink the ... to scream. In a single moment, shaking under a stream of hot water, an ... home. I’d come out to my parents. I’d failed my first MIT exam. Looking

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  eruptions bring to mind the old tales passed down from our elders. i’m from ... talk about volcanoes, and my teachers have been old enough to remember ... enough to have been through the worst, but it was near enough that they

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  .)) This has been one of the harder admissions posts for me to make, but one that I’ve been thinking about writing for a while. I listened to Silvana ... alone in my trauma; I don’t want others to feel that way. Though I know

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  lane over a bridge that twisted out of sight. Shuli pointed to a tarot ... writing, and working, and meeting many people. I want to preserve it, like a ... to wake up at 7:30, hit snooze a lot, and stumble into a cafe around 9

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  This summer, living alone has given me the immense freedom to do ... 've been watching a lot of Dimension 20, a tabletop RPG game show produced by ... &D game with a usually familiar cast, with the occasional guest stars here

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  powerpoints you have to put together. Integrated passive design education. Here ... that are going to happen, see below. Those posters are eye ... upcoming thesis defenses. Those posters have a kind of soul to them

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  was natural to split a cab together. We had to walk a couple blocks from ... improved to a record of 3-1. It was a tough game on a muddy field, especially ... perfect time to catch up on schoolwork and then get ahead in classes, if you

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  ) mentor for the materials science FPOP!!  We are going to play fun games and ... I know this is delayed, but I never got to write an end ... ended, but I'd like to sum things up in one post and just get it all out

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  invent some games to play, the first being the Rolling Game. Rules: Roll ... . Game 2: Spin! Rules: Spin really fast in a circle and try to hold on ... Back during my senior year of high school in 2007, I went to CPW

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  recently graduated and is now working in the Cambridge area. We decided to ... things to see. There's a lot to see in Boston; we only got to two of these! First, we headed over to the U.S.S. Constitution. The U

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Marjane Satrapi and French Breakthroughs The author of Persepolis visits MIT, and my French professor is famous

  

  very informative and entertaining event. I am going to have to ... 's definitely something to think about. This event, like the French Hip Hop I ... Brooklyn Bridge Robin H. Ray, News Office Correspondent October 27, 2006

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home Away From Home Complete with Batman mask, kettle corn, and ticket stubs

  

  (Click to zoom) Panoramic look at my room in Random Hall, let ... we hit a series of novels that starts with The Hitchhiker's Guide to ... (and the occassional Wii game) that I've always loved, from A Knight

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 4, 2014