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• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  It's June! Which means of course you're not interested in the ... things people are doing over the summer--you're interested in me, because I ... smart enough to be here. And while I do see validity in these questions

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  validation you get in return feels good and satisfying and right. Sometimes, it ... else, I want to make it clear that in my opinion, the class itself was a ... 'm getting better at handling feelings around failure, and that in itself makes

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  the Highline Trail in Glacier National Park. This is one of the most famous hiking trails in the country for its scenic vistas, so as somebody ... :("]few[/annotation] glaciers left in the park. All the blog posts I read

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018

  

  kind of stuff but some algorithms are just bad. Not just bad in the sense ... inevitably care for me in my old age to play music that I actually like.   ... ):   Blogger: Me First song listened to in 2018: "m.A.A.d city" by

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 4, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  building 38 is, because all the buildings in the 30s are in a completely ... Pirate Certificate - 25% complete. Turns out that you can in fact get PE ... -shirts rained down on me much more abundantly in freshman year. I don’t think I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  . I bought my computer off eBay in 2015, right before going off to ... RAM (those are solid specs, in case you're not a computer person) and I ... first programs in Python, Java, and C++. It delivered my first internship

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  up in 3 alarm snoozes. There’s a two-step strategy to this: first, say ... the Bedford VA, a national leader in supporting the higher education of veterans, in collaboration with Bowie State University, Maryland’s oldest

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  in the wrong direction, I saw Random Hall for the first time. As I ... -story structure just across the street, with balconies jutting outwards, bearing in ... -lost enough to tread memory lane, at least two events stand out in my mind

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  this reflects a general trend in my life, or is just a phase) so here ... sitting in the kitchen at 6am, one hand writing an equation to show that the ... Nov 3: I ended up in an ambulance, then at Cambridge Hospital, then

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  -dropping in its home makeover-like looks). Do you know anything about it? (JKim ... . I feel like it was used in some previous i3 publication (the handbook ... , custom fish tanks, are allowed in these dorms if they meet safety

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  !) and I were hard at work in his suite lounge on Conner 4: Then Aaron decided to go skiing. It had snowed earlier in the week, but most of the ... Sam pose for a picture in front of Burton-Conner. Notice that Sam is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  us. the show has 14 dances, 12 of which are created in the few weeks ... of practice each day. it's a lot! Mocha Show in 2020 was one of my ... 't able to have Mocha Show in 2021, however, so i was intent on contributing

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  I live in Burton-Conner, which is a cook-for-yourself dorms, but I ... pretty much lived off of avocado toast in the morning and Maseeh dining for ... [annotation note="Independent Activities Period is a four week period in January

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  want to do. In a way, things do feel a bit lighter though. I’m only ... breathe. Being in nature has been sooo good for me this past summer, so I’ve been trying to frolic in the Great Outdoors whenever I can.  I spent a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  probably majoring in 6-1 and 7 who lives in Next House – my wing is either 3W ... reason that I should be awake right now. In less than 3 hours, I am ... walk inevitably results in a very good story. This long walk is very

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  fascinating algorithms class, taught by two of the biggest names in the budding ... project. 18.704 seminar in algebra. seminars are this mit math department ... interesting book, but i'm more interested in the categorical parts of the class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  are you from? what are you thinking of majoring in? It got to the point ... [/annotation] in something else I dunno — and preemptively held it up to anyone I ... lived in St. Louis, the question probably meant what my ethnicity was or

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  Recently, my friend rejected several people who were interested in ... 've also known this friend to be pretty honest with me, and in the past, he ... self-knowledge extends to domains besides romance. In fact, it permeates

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  scheduled around psets or paid for in punted psets. One such spontaneous ... "sure, why not?" In fact, I was labouring under the very mistaken ... choice for several trips I took to Boston in high school, and we never got

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  in October, I was scrolling through the @mitadmissions feed when I came ... flashed in my head. The problem was I didn’t actually know what the exact ... message to Angela asking if she would be interested in potentially working

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021