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• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  feeling disenchanted by a place that had been previously shrouded in a ... the best at something and everything, while in high school, I felt that ... /social sciences person in high school (thought that I would go on to study some

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  ," Day 2 - "Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017," Day 3 - "College Life Changes ... experts in the field, and often the world at large. And all of the HASS professors are top academics of the world. MIT is the #1 school in the U.S. in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  is Chris - I graduated MIT in 2011, and now I'm a 4th year (!) med student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Boy ... questions for Khan Academy and do Hepatitis B epidemiology research in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  We begin our story in a cul-de-sac with neat green lawns in what was once one of the nicest towns in central Pennsylvania. It was morning; the ... half hour their voices floated in from the kitchen. “—and then Mrs. Essix

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  my quantum pset 4. Watching the Obama/Romney debate *In order to "see" atomic hydrogen out in space, astronomers look for its signature: radiation ... wavelengths?!" you ask. A fine question. In fact - one might say that it's a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  , there's no boundaries. So in short, a poetry slam is what happens when ... and warn. In my experience, they've been some of the greatest, most ... !) in your lifetime. They've also been some pretty great teachers

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  ; in fact, MIT is better than the national average1. However, this is a ... hair-pulling by even the brightest students. But in the rare cases of ... factors noted for suicide2. Also note in the article below: We also know

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  Back in the sepia-toned pages of my high school years, Personal ... . Since food happens to be one of the protagonists in this blog, here's a ... look at this in terms of chemical composition, probably 80% of my grocery

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  students we admit are like. Who are they? What are they interested in? What ... some general demographic data in the freshman class profile, giving a ... freshmen in their hometown newspapers. As you may have seen in your community

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  Two weeks ago, while visiting my family in State College, I got to see some images in Old State Clothing Co. that probably seem sad and ironic to an outsider. “Believe deep down in your heart that you are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  compensation, newfound freedom in class selection For many weeks, I couldn ... make it easy to understand, especially from a non-MIT point of view. In a ... can be attributed to how course selection in college is a double

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  side of the tracks." In fact, I'm from the wrong side of TWO tracks. In ... residents on the north side of Highways 36. Obviously not everyone in my ... family found ourselves in the following awkward situation while in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  's worth sharing: after all, MIT has one of the best medical systems in the ... price in September, mononucleosis in October, vaccinations in November and February, and a series of three major throat infections in February and March

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  playing in the background to keep from falling asleep), I completed my epic 15-paged chem pset and turned it in at noon. That said, and I did better than I expected on the physics test, so everything was worth it in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  In his most famous book, James Carse categorizes human activity into ... , scientific discovery, humanism, etc... When I discovered this dichotomy in ... beautiful ideals in this world. To shout from the past and into the future

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  some of the dumb shit I participated in. [caption id="attachment_112772 ... of chicken, and also pages filled with integrals, in case you preferred ... , chugging milk, and dying of heat in the middle of winter. I started on the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  39 day summer program in astrophysics, biochemistry, genomics, or ... meet people outside of the bubble I was in.  Any fears I might have had about fitting in or finding friends were dashed within an hour of my

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... wanted them to like me! In 2014, with my MIT degrees and my own blogging career behind me, I wrote a reflection post after being out in the real

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  with cowboy hats:   I step outside and breathe in the toasty evening air. Hot like Vegas (where I flew in from), but much more humid. I ... question.   These little things reminded that I was, indeed, in a new

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  in the past couple of months, my floor has found itself back in the ... it is. i stand there with the cube in my hand, my brain going, is it ... , just because i found myself thinking more in dialogue/monologue style in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023