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• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  first two weeks of school.    ... pictures of the places that were memorable to me in some way. Eighteen months ... than that was the emptiness of it all: lobby 10, 26-100, banana lounge

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  the river On its bridge with wooden piers, Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ... from Kendall/MIT to Charles/MGH, is named as such because of this poem

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  . Actually, there were a lot of moments this whole school year that felt like ... ; whenever you have a moment of free time, you're sitting there, jangling ... living in the middle of the woods anymore. You have no clue what you

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I submit my official transcript to MIT as a QuestBridge applicant?

  If the transcript on your QuestBridge application was sent by your counselor/school official, it fulfills our requirements for an official ... official transcript from your school counselor on your Applicant Status page
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  distance of 77 Massachusetts Avenue uneaten at, pardon the grammatical ... than getting problem sets finished on a Friday night instead of chewing ... see any more of those, really). Honestly, I can't count the nights when

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  begin thinking and planning in advance, which I respect and value (one of ... as the last few years, to wit: We know you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us about something you do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  planning ahead of time, which I respect and value (maybe the most ... lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 words

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  'm sharing a place with three other interns, two of them also from MIT. so it ... pacific science center laserdome. a few weeks ago it was fourth of july and ... our neighbors' backyards all around us. every once in a while one of us

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Deferred Applicants Q & A Have a question about your MIT EA deferral? Read on...

  

  strong applications, the kinds of applications any school (including MIT ... , regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little historical data: over the past decade or so, the average number of deferred students later

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  regularly address tens of thousands of prospective MIT students and millions of other people around the world, and Be comfortable with, or willing ... /Writing Experience This is your "portfolio", and is the single most important part of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  one of the few living groups that has Residence Based Advising, or RBA ... advisor to discuss some subject in a group of around 8 housemates in a ... comedy shows. Of course, I entered the seminar lottery, and there were

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  Well my fellow 09er's, as most of you already know, AP scores are in ... started screaming and running around the kitchen. My parents are kind of ... was kind of hoping that would happen, and it did. Props to them.) Their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  she does a beautiful job trying to express the ineffable. No amount of ... residents—we were notified of his death before the rest of campus was, early ... ; screens are flat. people aren't.   Matthew was a classmate of mine

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  Boston pillow fight! Apparently there's some sort of pillow fight craziness ... crazy thing you'd have fun at :) This paragraph was followed by all of the ... some more people to arrive. Arrive they did, and soon we had a group of

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  , but it's got a pretty good cabinet setup, with plenty of space for all ... of us to have at least a shelf of our own personal stuff. Two of my roommates have their own shelf; one has their own small cabinet. None of them

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  you read most of the text. Choices that aren't listed don't matter ... through the events of a Friday. The game starts at midnight and continues ... did not pick myself. Most of the story proceeds through a linear path

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  , stands for Independent Activities Period, and takes place for all of ... -imposed activities like clubs, or a handful of sped-up, all-consuming classes. Everyone ... the end, but each of the classes felt new and valuable. I took Weld Your

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  We watch a lot of cooking content. We really like making food ... Ghibli movies and Ratatouille), and of course, eating it. During a normal ... video of a recipe we like, we email the link to ourselves, and usually try

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  Bruce. The three of us speedwalked down the Infinite Corridor, and a sophomore named Kirstyn joined us. The four of us booked it across campus ... , from mid-November to mid-April. It has the most volunteers of any single

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  like a group of randos from the entire assortment of high school cliques ... creeping around the back of my mind during all of [annotation note ... fort I spent a fair amount of the rest of REX at, reopened. I filled out

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025