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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  sipping Trader Joe's 100% maple syrup from the bottle to make up for lost calories), being with friends. This is what it looked like: The road to camp ... to go for a walk or get real food. If I didn’t love the world and want

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  [by Elise Ruan '14] Going to college and moving into a dorm ... ’t seem to fit with anything. The latter is more specific to my own dorm ... wall. But it still wouldn’t prepare me for decorating and

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  importance to people, but for me, I've always used it as a way to ground myself ... friend pauses thoughtfully for a few minutes and then begins to talk. The ... before going to sleep; I'm also planning to sign up for a reading-based IAP

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  this post is a little delayed, for which I plead CPW Like millions of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar eclipse on April 8th. I had happened to see the total eclipse in 2017 in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  the worst sleep schedule known to man...it's definitely time for you to ... time for you to drop some commitments and take some time to chill and ... energy for things you're passionate about. you're try to be a morning

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  need for students to understand both the science and engineering of ... At MIT, students are able to declare their major starting sometime ... when it come to what I want to do, so I was dead confident that nothing

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  goes on. For years, I've subconsciously been trying to come up with a ... becomes increasingly difficult to find satisfaction. For those who do find ... differently in different people. It's impossible for a formula to exist. case

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  love, only for things to inevitably fade away in the end. However, these ... call “love”.   So for now I’m not sure if I’m striving to find ... . Have I gained an ounce of sanity? Not really. Will I continue to obsess

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  where they will be required to 'make' something for a final project or ... making moving forward. In this respect MIT intends for its future to be as ... opportunity to recognize and encourage a new generation of makers and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  . To practice, I e-mailed French House to ask for sample prompts. Every ... tangentially related to this"-->"Okay, I have an idea for how to begin, at ... (Spark!) 3,000 middle and high school students descend onto MIT campus for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  claim to being "old school." So, without further ado: eBay listing for ... TOTALLY NORMAL and all, and I just didn't want to ruin that.) Snively loves ... for him? Well, I was one of those people. Let me show you what that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wild Parties, Vaginas and Suburbia Can you possibly guess where this entry is going? No. You can't.

  

  around the world to raise awareness and money for campaigns and charities ... 't mean for this to be uber-serious or anything. Just something to keep in ... I've recently had the opportunity to see three MIT productions - I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  with my head cut off for an hour, I went to 5.60 lecture, where we ... Fridays, since many bio/BCS classes meet for an hour and a half or two hours twice a week rather than for an hour three times a week. This term, I only

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  of their time to repaint the room for the next year. Other than that ... room in the halls/dorms generally? 2.are there different halls for boys ... allowed to live in a single room?" There are actually two people in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  the different devices created to make life easier for people and provide ... , that I applied to UC Davis for Animal Studies instead of BME like I did ... have interviews for summer 2022. But the more and more I talk to Ray

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  essays. For the tl;dr, scroll to the bottom to get my general takeaways ... collision data to advocate for active transportation infrastructure introduced ... innovate and design to advocate for accessible, barrier-free, and sustainable

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  entrance to Baker. I couldn’t stop smiling as I waited in line for food. I ... ’d come home and lie on the floor for a couple hours to slowly recoup my ... all my friends. We need ten minutes’ notice to meet up for dinner, or a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  . Interview 2001: None. I was too shy to sign up for an optional interview. 2005 ... People sometimes say that it doesn't matter where you go for undergrad, as long as you go somewhere spectacular for grad school. I have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  : good blog,I am doing research for my Daughter,she wants to apply to MIT ... .009 meeting, and then pack for a spontaneous 24 hour trip back to the greatest ... get off campus for awhile. I'm even more confident to not continue on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  explained the "casing the joint" means "looking around for things to steal ... take too much time...but something to consider." I considered it for ... like that. I would look at a sentence, search for one that seemed to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012