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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  poem of mine I could find in Google Drive. It was my first-ever high ... Shakespearean sonnets, maybe some contemporary pieces from a brief unit in sixth ... always my first love, and after I won a national prize in tenth grade for a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  , spurring me to scream for Selena, the official bug person in this apartment ... I called my mother. "Mom," I said, panicking. "There are bugs in our ... cautiously cracked it open again, there were no moths in sight. And that was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  unstructured decompression sequence in my 2019 IAP and loved it. (I also tried to ... direct differences in the types of contributions made by the Microsoft ... "]Vietnamese-Iranian-American,[/annotation] I was really happy when (purely by chance) two out of three in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  feel like I’ve lived so much in such a short span of time, which makes ... less than five days. I screamed in anguish with my friends on [annotation note = "the lawn in front of the big dome"]Killian Court

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a

  

  ramen place in Porter Square), but also I've left behind a lot of good food places I really enjoyed (Umami Burger, that one tteokbokki place in ... 've missed above all, however, is Chick Fil A. There are no Chick Fil A's in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  MIT so far. I know the future only has a lot more of these in store, but ... was going to fare in college. Being slightly socially awkward and ... to fit in with. Coming to MIT, though, proved me completely wrong. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  . Ha, looks like the elements did have a place in my list! I feel ... out resulting in being kicked out or disowned or worse.  My coming out was more in-between, meant different things for each of my parents, and

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  working in RGB mode - CYMK is sometimes buggy for me (click the triangle to ... have after you click ok: Zoom in and out using ctrl+ - and ctrl ... toolbars might be in different places- I don't remember where everything is

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  ," Day 2 - "Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017," and Day 3 - "College Life ... for you! Sure, students have less time for books in college, but we don ... Palahniuk is a minimalist writer, which means not a single word in his books

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... , activities, awards) - we will use your QuestBridge application for that. In the ... am taking my tests in November or December. Am I still eligible for the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  cocoon myself in a swathe of green bedsheets. But tonight is different ... before the last first day of my time here at MIT. To put that in less ... as is my house back in California. I remember being gently startled the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  calculator addiction: What if we knew the solution before the calculation? In ... ). Sanjoy Mahajan sees a general trend of pragmatism in the United States ... the material can. In his May 19 xTalk “The Art of Insight

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  it's easy to let our dear old friend imposter syndrome kick in ... . Now, in fall of my senior year (gah that's still scary to write down ... ) Space is, for lack of a better word, neat[3]. Last semester, in 8

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  Late in February, my friend Ashley '12 forwarded me a notice titled "Dudamel - Open Rehearsal" and asked if I would be interested in attending ... !") but we squeezed and "sorry! excuse me!"d our way in. Flipping through

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  other places. We raised over $6600 in just two hours through this Date ... has pivotal experiences, those experiences that become skyscrapers in ... learn about cancer. It gave me a glimpse into what occurred in my mother

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  In eighth grade, I was Tessie in my school's production of Little ... , though, and there are very few people I'm willing to sing in front of. Late in the evening, I walk back to French House along the back of the dorm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  I mulled the numbers over in my head, I realized that many of the bright, motivated doctors in the world have never taken serious time off ... .   The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  when you haven't seen your friend in a while. Being away from the 'tvte ... , in my home town of Pearland TX, the highest point of elevation is ... taillights in front of you. Climbing as a sport is essentially non

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  Plus institutions are both collaborators and competitors: the former, in the sense ... latter, in the sense that we compete to admit and enroll similar, though ... , we all use them in slightly different ways. For example, one colleague

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  't stifling. Today was stifling. Today was sauna in an oven on the sun. Sweat ... away. In fact, he even began adding his own contributions to the project ... speaking to us in Creole. Marvin, who speaks French, asked him if he spoke

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010