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• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  Last Sunday, some friends and I walked across the state of Rhode Island! This idea originated last year, when my friend Xavier and some of ... . So they did! I heard stories of the Walk when I met Xavier this summer

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018

  

  overall snapshot of my listening habits. Then I remembered that 2018 was the ... , which I streamed at least 50 times over the course of a week, on my top 100 playlist? I don't even recognize at least a third of the songs on

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

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  could do some of those things MIT kids do, it seems like so much fun. But ... conversations at MIT but still love every minute of it." Huh. This is really ... really transformed into the type of person who leads those headache

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  never-ending busy season of reading applications! So it's not like I don't have a lot of other work to do right now. But as I've been chatting with ... caffeinated because I don't like the taste of coffee, I usually prefer

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  every blog I've ever blogged has come directly out of frenzy it ... gremlin takes over do any of those ideas make it out   all creative ... of ideas   in another life, I could have been a painter (I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  junior year of high school, I fell in love with the T. It’s not the best subway system in the world, of course, but I remember riding the Red Line ... about the minimum number of T stops you’d need to pass in order to go to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes 'What the hell is water ... experiences.  Within our large and exceptionally talented pool of applicants, students routinely produce impressive academic portfolios of achievement and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  and poetic and pretty. I'm not quite sure what any of it means or what's happening, but it's certainly an experience. I am cut off from the passion of ... -based interactive fiction: type a command to execute it. There's hundreds of commands

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  where i am Since the beginning of the fall semester of my senior ... . I've historically been known to be somewhat of a firecracker on campus ... looming blanket of anger or sadness underneath it. I noticed the change

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  one There's this thing called a "cruft house", when a group of MIT ... Bunker. The first night the three of us moved into our new place, I insisted we come up with a name. The three of us-Sathwik, Rohan, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might ... still, he currently faces a decision of his own. He’s a high school senior ... you are making an agonizing decision of your own, too. Several weeks

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  puzzles from an issue of P&A Magazine together. The last time the Puzzle ... walking from the west side of campus, so with me living in the east side, we ... you mean?" "Well," he said, "in college, I always thought of hours and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  weeks, which have been >> First week of November Saturday (not ... sargent's "triumph of religion," which he spent 29 years on before his death[/caption] Monday: I woke up with cramps. On top of my 3-week old ankle sprain, the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You should get this bundle right now definitely clickbait

  

  game bundle to tell you that you should buy it. Here's a list of some of ... building a CPU out of simple components. It's not for everyone, but if you ... bi vibes. The Majesty of Colors [caption id="" align

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  Around this time of the year, we're always told to write something ... vulnerability and sharing that part of yourself. College admissions is a volatile ... I also know, though, is that there is a certain merit in all of these

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  lot of error. Here's a list of my very own freshman housing horror ... big fan of it. What I am not a fan of is bugs. So naturally, I was very ... . The insect was properly disposed of and I thought that was it. NOPE. A

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  happening back in the Philippines. Here, it’s ever present: news of gruesome, unjust murders of black people, and news of senseless police brutality, every time I get on social media, every hour, every day. And of course I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  that one of my friends wrote. You can look at the web.lab schedule here. The way it works is that the first week is a bunch of lectures, starting ... making a website. By the end of week 1, we formed teams and submitted ideas

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  from home, like the weird practice of tipping, or how there’s functional ... . The leaves changing color? Happens too quickly. Really, so much of the big stuff I’ve already seen or heard of through the American films and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  ... Whatever’s in the top ten of the U.S. News & World Report rankings ... the number of people who have died from laughing too hard I decided to write about something that gives a good sense of who I am and what I value

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019