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• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  ring and bright black and pink hair. i'm applying EA to MIT and i was ... process, and want to learn about the important things that make you you. As ... meeting and learning from all sorts of different people. And certainly, if

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  This is the fourth and last part of a series, consisting of a lightly ... , and part three. Hour 70: 7:50 AM PST, January 6th, 2023 location: just outside of Winnemuca, NV train: #5, one hour and 58 minutes late

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  morning pale and grey. There are jobs that need doing in the basement by the street, where a massive CNC machine chatters and hums. You’re breathing ... cut look clean.  One piece you cut is fine and smooth, but the next has

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  even made a playlist before, and my voice isn't really the best for ... member, and was on air within weeks. I've continued to remain involved ever since, hosting my own show and eventually joining student management as

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  , so I stayed inside. Then sun came out so my friend Gabi N. '22 and I took a study break and went for a walk! nice weather, viewed from the ... ) purchase their residents breakfast and dinner during Finals Week. So instead

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  I checked my Timehop today and saw a tweet about how I was stressed ... relentlessly and questioned everything about myself, whether the things I liked and loved to do were likeable enough, whether I was even an interesting

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , sat down next to a kindly elderly British woman with a posh accent…and ... , and one inedible snack later, the plane began its descent. Lower, lower, lower, lower, and the tarmac rose to meet us, until WHOOSH. The nose of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  [by Elise Ruan '14] Dear prefrosh (and prospies), By the time ... some of you overachievers) to figure out your hobbies and interests. Many ... ’ve spent your whole life being told to try new things and find what you like

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  to go off. I go and look at my computer (which is supposed to be my ... 's battery had completely drained. I wait 20 minutes for the shower, and then ... to campus on my way there. And thus began the second of the dreariest

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  singular noun that ends in s AND the next word begins in s, you don't use an ... boat; let's spend the dorm's money and take a trip out into the middle of nowhere!" And everybody else was all "Woohoo! Nowhere!" And so, with the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  for a little while and say hi. Unfortunately, as the name implies, no ... that I was making clothing out of duct tape and decided to go all out. I ... everything in their rooms and taping their room keys somewhere to their body

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  design a CPU from scratch. 6.2050 is like 6.1910 but much more hands-on and ... bring back 6.08"]Joe Steinmeyer[/annotation] teaches it, and he’s a great ... and building a robot that could learn to recognize people’s voices. And

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  events in 10 different colors) and I realized that if I cross my eyes ... a planner (I jot it down and never open the planner again), but mainly due to apathy and laziness. I've realized that the philosophy which

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  on personal enjoyment/emotional impact and not at all on literary merit ... letters, and a list of all the books. S: will reread again and again ... The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Of Mice and Men by

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  put up on classroom walls? They always summer, fall, winter, and spring with the colors of a tree: from green, to orange, to white, to pink, and ... -bordered (cut) and taped together–definitely a lesson in patience and attention to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  correct. basketball is a complicated sport and there are many exceptions to every principle i’ve been watching basketball on-and-off for a while now and my favorite part of the game is seeing very effective defense. there

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  back from russia and since getting to college and meeting so many new people and moving around and everything i feel lost on a much deeper level than ever before and it's not entirely negative it's just i feel

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  you've looked like before and inform you of the change now. Another ... and bones", which is viewed as a sign of malnourishment. To eat food and ... insult, and more like an inside joke, a reminder of the culture that we

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  I've been dancing on a team at MIT for one and a half years, but I ... previous posts, a significant portion of my free time through middle and high ... I started mirroring and slowing videos so I could mimic them. A few

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  -- and where there aren't murals, there are blackboards and whiteboards ... holding lots of scribbled equations, but also to-do lists and schedules and ... normalcy and community we can, my housemates and I have produced our own

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020