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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  needed therapy since junior year of high school, when the depression ... four years. you talk to exactly two people from high school. you wonder ... 's nothing earth-shattering. it's easy to minimize as it spills out of your

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  of high school that ensured there were designated times for meals, play and sleep (I went to boarding school). I had no comprehension of the ... that would determine the entire course of my life. I thought that if the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  understand? Don't you know that the view from the bottom of the Lobby Ten steps ... ? Don't you know the sky is the same here? Don't you see it? The base of ... now. I thought I would've been hardened entering the doors of Lobby

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  and/or college counselor) I have always tried to provide the type of ... application portals open, and deadlines fast approaching, I am reminded of the bulk of conversations that I have had about essays, right around this

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  ever take a class that inspires one of these lists? things I could be doing instead of this class: reading The New Yorker talking ... The New Yorker.[/annotation] taking pictures of black holes

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  than 30 countries and includes hundreds of thousands of student ... by Eljakim Schrijvers, the lead coach of the Dutch team at the International Olympiad in Informatics, and Rob Kolstad, the former lead coach of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  , and since all of us are used to showering in the morning instead of at ... :( 5:30 AM: Done showering, dressing, throwing my hair into some kind of ... of my summer goals was to improve my culinary habits, but I am

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  one of my best friends from high school, who came to MIT with me. Rumor ... Today marks the end of a four-day weekend. Traditionally, extended weekends guarantee an endless amount of free-time to catch up on problem sets

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  around you is one of the most important parts of making this school ... , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that ... asleep and the story continued. Eventually, I’d be wrenched out of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  of believability and credibility to both the school and the admissions ... of this school through the eyes of current students. Anytime you find ... 've graduated!!! Holy smokes, four years of MIT and now it's over. It seems like

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  out, I was aware of my flesh body and form. In elementary school, I ... content warning: mentions of calorie counting, vague eating disorder ... lot of pretty strong memories over the years. Throughout elementary

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  I was probably one of the youngest people ever to read the blogs. I ... love. The blogs were one of the first pieces of writing I ever binged ... struggled to make friends through elementary and into middle and high school

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  school and most of college i believed that people who worked in high ... dialogue for each episode is taken from a series of real-life podcast ... accomplish as possible.” it took me another viewing to realize that much of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman ... . Editor's notes were added in the spring of senior year. For reference, here is my past avatar, a more accurate depiction of me when I wrote this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  I have enough of a questions backlog now that I think it's worth ... little groups of freshmen led by an upperclassman (all incoming frosh are ... midway and the athletics midway, where you can visit booths of different

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  because of a book I’d found in the school library. It contained a variety of ... saw the light of day (mostly because I forgot about it until last semester), but now I have a brand new batch of internship origami for your

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  , and more responsibilities. Although the amount of time I spend on school ... of the times in high school when I would stay after school ranting to ... refreshing in these last few weeks. In my last post, I uploaded a picture of my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  i posted the following message in the MIT class of 2021 admits ... approaches. for those of you who've already decided to come to MIT, yay! welcome! for those of you who are still on the fence, i thought i might

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  any of my “reach” schools, which was upsetting, to say the least. I was ... essays I helped edit last year. He's a friend of a friend who wrote an entire essay about soldering. Like many of you, he worked toward MIT with a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  having it's annual "Winter School". Winter School is a series of lectures ... the horrifying discovery of what "windchill" is. This year however, is a ... warmer than usual. Not bad for campus, but unfortunate for those of us

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012