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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  United States and the Director of UNICEF to keep them informed of the ... , each of the GEL students evaluated one another based on leadership and ... . I meet with the staff and fellow GEL 2 student officers, and make sure

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  rating underwear colors in my inbox *insert context here*

  

  this state. or perhaps just emphasizing that the color is impending and ... messages from clubs, free boba, and senior sales, any message sent to ... thematically relevant it is), and Creativity.   (Disclaimer: while I have

  • by Victor D. '27
  • February 18, 2026
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  (!) by registering as a student. I was there for hours and didn't see even ... , and every open space was packed with people. Some of the exhibitors even ... their building, and they also built a gumball machine that dispensed

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  moral dilemma, a person vs. self conflict which I would both win and lose ... , because I had finally moved on from the stage of denial and accepted their existence. My cereal had become unpleasantly dry and decidedly less palatable

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  the first time; I drove over 400 miles across several state lines; I ... , and write exciting papers that would be published in exciting journals ... , and now I was forcing myself to chart a new course. Interestingly, I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  students remain on the waitlist, and how many we wish to take from the ... waitlist, and the year before that we admitted 20 students. However, the four ... . Who do you admit from the waitlist? For example, if someone from state X

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  students remain on the waitlist, and how many we wish to take from the ... students from the waitlist, and the year before we admitted 40 students ... . Who do you admit from the waitlist? For example, if someone from state X

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  holed myself up in Radio Society to avoid getting distracted, and yet here ... graduated and all those afterwards shall carry on Tetazoo’s legacy of fiery ... often joke about graduating being the equivalent of dying. It’s funny and

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  [annotation note="and if you look to your left, you will see a biochemist attempting to understand language by lysing the words and fractionating the letters into roots and x-fixes"]ad and visum[/annotation](from videre, "to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  windows, three showers, two toilets, two sinks, 1507.75 wall tiles, and 3907.0625 floor tiles. There are 960.296875 wall tiles, 439.1875 floor tiles, and 70 ... blue sky for walls, and in this space the three floors above us are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  Meeting Of The Year. I woke up at 8:30 to my alarm, turned it off, and ... our new freshmen, Sarah '17, is amazing and cooked a few batches for the ... year (IT'S MY SENIOR YEAR) and I realize that I still don't have a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  the rest of my life to meet other math people, and I really wanted to use college as an opportunity to expand my horizons and meet other kinds ... Haus (where I lived as a freshman) and at Theta Xi (where I live now). As

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  ] Today’s Opportunities? I skimmed through it and what caught my eye was ... like a 360 camera and have a hands-on experience in a tumultuous, virtual ... with high hopes, and spammed a friend telling them about the class too

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  , escaped from some universe, a piece of a jigsaw puzzle I’m privy to. And the ... And psych! Happy April Fool’s Day! I didn’t celebrate it in ... -attack-worthy lies over the next couple of days. And this blogpost is all about the art

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  ? right? Eh my state of mind is very much a work in progress. And as the ... .  And it feels just as surreal as it felt when I got to campus for the first time. Everything was so new and there was this sense of wonder in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  notoriety of the class and its near-universality among Course 8’s I am fairly certain that someone has already given a more insightful and better written ... Lab (8.13) is one of the most infamous, trial-by-fire, taxing, and yet

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  wanted to put myself out there and meet as many people and expose myself to ... I saved to travel and pursue my goal of getting myself out there ... plane for a Phi Kappa Sigma conference and spent a week getting to know my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  ? Yeah, they would probably be worried about my mental state, and scramble ... from the MIT admissions blogs - sitting on mitadmissions.org and refreshing obsessively was masochistic and irrelevant to the outcome of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  classes at a (very good) (but not as stimulating) university, and the two ... as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them to donate to MIT. It’s a fascinating job, and it deserves an entire

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  , and it was my first impression of what college life could truly look ... school, and my parents also didn’t go to college, so I couldn’t ask them about their personal experiences. When I entered high school and became

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023