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• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  I was a high achiever since a young age just because I thought school by itself was really boring. The challenge of winning a bunch of stuff ... -achiever-ism go hand in hand whenever people discuss either of those topics, but

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  're sliders and levers. Room doors don't have hinges to open into or out of ... length you need. Most of the time, these are cute. They fall into the category of cultural differences like "toilets are heated and have a fake

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  sentences with commas, always thinking of replacements for semicolons, etc. I ... calculated, slower, reasoning System 2. I feel when I type in this kind of ... backspace quite frequently in search of better grammatical phrasing. I do

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  MIT Admissions webpage in hope of a new entry every hour. Anyways, since I basically spent most of my weekend with her, I figured that it wouldn’t make too much of a difference – we’d share the

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  More Updates from Cambridge It's CPW 24/7 here. We can't wait to see you.

  

  here as we prepare for nearly two-thirds of the admitted class of 2011 to descend upon the MIT campus... CPW Events Wow, there are a lot of cool ... 's Battle of the Bands at 8pm Saturday, with special guests Ben & Marilee

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  part of my high school career. I wrote about it even though I knew a lot ... stumble across a page that will crash their browser. Various forms of anger ... vengeance - spamming the owner of the guilty site - to acceptance - writing a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  community. I went home until the end of the semester and moved in mid-May, so I wasn't involved in the process of finding an apartment. I'm told that it was a hellish six hours involving four tours, lots of walking

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  a disclaimer some events are slightly out of order I was not really ... of spring and what I learned, what knowledge I gained, and I can show you pictures of the muscles I have not sustained, and I drew a bunch of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  In eighth grade, I was Tessie in my school's production of Little ... . Six years went by - six years of staying as far away from singing for an ... , though, and there are very few people I'm willing to sing in front of. Late

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  community she has found in the small bubbles of art at the school have really ... in the heart of the Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center, the icon of architecture of MIT's campus, lies a pub. it opened in 2004 and was used for at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  favorite thing about MIT – the ski team! For those of you who don’t know, at MIT the month of January is not part of the normal school year. Instead ... prefer to spend the duration of IAP with the MIT Alpine Ski team, living in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Charmed, I’m Sure What I did my 2nd IAP

  

  't write much here. On Friday, I went to Charm School. I had a hard time ... , so a lot of what you see below will look familiar. Charming music ... Music Theater Guild's production of Tommy. Not only were the MIT students

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  This is part 2 of a four part series spread across our four years at the 'tvte (for the first part, go here). Throughout the school year, we ... inevitably does), we pile the stuff next to it. At the end of the year, we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Crusty White Dogs Appreciation Post 💕 🐕 💕 🐕💕

  

  afraid of the front door. I love the way that they can barely see and bump ... during a crusty-white-dog blog]: I am taking a fifth year. Because of a ... UROP advisor and she said "Oh no! You get to spend another year at one of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 18, 2026
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  in other years. and other majors. and other schools. parties are more ... of them. send my friends memes that remind me of them. make things ... together. guest-passing people into dining halls. taking boxes of food from

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  've built yo-yos Five(!) robots A pirate ship out of water bottles ... isn't true, we aren't the experts on everything. A friend of mine was ... of the types of things that happen at MIT. There was an incident over

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Update: App Tracking & More All of the mail has been processed, and MyMIT Application Tracking is up-to-date.

  

  for EA applicants; the current status of your application is now shown ... a good time for you to check up on the status of your application ... Part 2, Secondary School Report and Transcript, Evaluation A (math or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  My sophomore year of high school I ate too many donuts. When I woke ... school teacher wrote in my yearbook: “The great irony of any communication ... fact of my life now; I’ve made it a joke.  I feel like throwing up, I say

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  Activities Period—this glorious month of fun classes and activities. It’s kind of hard to describe IAP because people are just doing wildly different things during it. Some of my friends chose to have an extended winter break

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  string up 120 miles of wire and cable and set up over 1000 posts: they ... charge of operating the telescope, and collecting data. Bear in mind that ... stuck using a pen chart recorder. It spat out a hundred feet of paper per

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012