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• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  . The gym is usually empty when I come down, however, so the lack of ... feeling of getting stronger and lifting big objects. I love the way your muscles tremble at the end of a workout, when you’ve pushed to the edge of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  ’ve compiled some of my thoughts on the portfolio process and collected some frequently asked portfolio questions. A crumb of context The MIT application is ... student community made up of some of the world’s most intelligent and

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  grants of between $50 and $250 to pods and virtual groups for art supplies ... , pleasure, and community building," and anyone of any level could apply as ... me refine it a bit. They asked me what the purpose of my request was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  head: "ah. i haven't blogged in a while, have i?" a gust of wind nearly knocks my glasses off my face. i put on the hood of my sweatshirt and regret my choice of footwear (slides). i start to wonder if anything has

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / CPW

  Who’s psyched? I’m psyched! It's gonna be stitchin'!

  

  't actually build it, we paid a company lots of money to build it, but it ... 's all sorts of other stuff, but that's not what I'm here to write about. I ... cross stitching livestream for all of the MIT admits in the class of 2024

  • by Snively '11
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  not stood up terribly well against the test of time. This isn't a ... "]was;[/annotation] people change, and people especially change over 4 years of college. What ... that is a big component of what i look for in good friends. freshman year

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  closer as friends and also relieved a lot of the shame we both felt ... semester was a shitshow of epic proportions. Just, ugh, you'll see. 21M.600 ... while in quarantine as a form of “creative writing”. I should have failed

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a week in europe pictures of munich, vienna, amsterdam

  

  on friday, loud, incessant bangs and whirrs of the never ... and tests swirl in my head. they make me forget what's outside of campus ... for just one week and breathe a different kind of air. it's almost

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  arrangement of the couches on the living room floor. the google home that can ... llamas and alpacas. the pc running out of a shoebox built solely for vr ... and befriend and laugh with. i get a taste of what old toons might have

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  , really, needed to. But I did learn to be spending better. Being aware of ... . Knowing makes me unafraid of "not having enough", which then allows me to be ... of things that make me happy. Because knowing how much I spend, lets

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Recap: wearables, games, and other SUPER products

  

  Last week, I posted the webcast of the final presentations for 2 ... provides real-time haptic feedback to help those who are hard of hearing ... : Rhino, a device for masons to help speed up, and clean up, the repair of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2017!

  

  old girl at nerd camp yelled at me for being part of the globalist ... dragon staff 3) It's time for those of you who might want to be bloggers ... blogger? The mission of the blogs is to help prospective students understand

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  must confess that it was a short struggle. The plethora of options was so ... years on the same floor, and in the same room for three of those four years. However, I’m sure not everyone is ok with this wily-nily method of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  For many people, the idea of "what do I want to be when I grow up" is ... . As time goes on, it is no longer just a question of what you want to be ... you want to do for, potentially, the rest of your life. Even here at MIT

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  I blog a lot of retrospective trip reports (see, e.g., ISEF 2016, IOI ... than 130,000 ft2 of build/hobby space, about 2.5 football fields, to ... of makerspaces that will support more maker communities, personal

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  don’t know how long my body can sustain this level of non-activity. I do ... thing being a big part of the change. There are amazing places to eat all around me, and I just have all of this freedom and nobody telling me that I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Deadline check your MyMIT account now

  

  our Regular Action applicants a quick update. As of today, we have ... showing up on your MyMIT tracking page, there was likely some kind of issue ... ; sending duplicate copies will only slow the processing of your documents

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing ... , but in the past I have acquired both a pair of jeans and a Snuggie ... an equal chance of partaking before it runs out. 3) When you send an e

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  concerns? I am available, as are all of the bloggers, to field questions ... MIT Class of 2017!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it ... the fairest treatment of waitlisted students. If you need more time: If

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Getting Back to Normal ...with some help from Macklemore

  

  It has been a rough couple of weeks in Boston and at MIT.  Wednesday ... has hosted some of the biggest bands ever, including the Grateful Dead ... at the annual Steer Roast in 1990), it has quite a list of bands that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2013