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• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  the whole admissions experience more fulfilling for everyone involved - on both sides of the equation. I apologize to those of you who think ... attempting to refute that - my blog is what it is, and the folks who "get it

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  . Some turn to exposure therapy, or perhaps the simulated version, maybe ... themselves from the pain. The mere passage of time turned out to be that ... rejections from the past decade and a half. After graduation I returned to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  translucent silence filling the room. Dawn-ish grey light hung on the ceiling ... thought about the word indeed for a while too, and then I leisurely reached ... :15 because the MIT concert band was leaving for a gig in Harvard, MA in EXACTLY

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  disk drive, and the little safety lock clip thing has somehow been broken off. The drive fits, but it doesn't take much for it to slide around ... duct tape the drive in place. I figured this would be no problem since

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  interests." The logical part of me knows that's probably the dumbest thing ever, but I think the thing that's holding me back is just how much I ... pulled me through some of the roughest times in my life, especially in the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  out Bryan's latest post) Rushil wrote, "I have a question regarding the ... the moon(that was used by my school's team( I was a leader of that!) that reached the finals of the International Space Settlement Design

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  the school down the road"]saving graces. [/annotation] If you want an ... note="i live in Burton-Conner and thus am free from the shackles of a meal plan YIPPEE unlike the majority of my friends. but also lowkey MIT

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  Author's note: The original title was going to be "I DUPED THE COOP ... .   Back in March, the Harvard/MIT Coop announced their very first merch design competition for the graduating Class of 2025 (that’s me

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  family was “The Game of Life.” It’s a bit like the mobile game BitLife, I suppose. You start as a young adult, and walk along the pathways of life ... ), buying a house, and eventually retiring. The goal is to collect as much

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  returned to the blogs to let people know: “I did not graduate from MIT on ... straying from the path set up by my education, but it was meant to be. I ... "] Katsushika Hokusai’s "The Great Wave" - Beaded Reproduction[/caption] A quick

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  feels like just yesterday (I graduated in 2013). Last year, I had the chance to walk through campus, down the infinite, with my 9-month old baby — and it all still felt like home.  Okay, all the places I loved to eat

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  “The muscles of my soul, longing for the opportunity to feel and fear ... was about the college experience that drew me. Fresh out of high school ... - bored. I craved excitement, wanted my life to take the shape of any proper

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  until I collapsed under the pressure had I not gotten an MIT acceptance letter in December. I held tight onto the breath of fresh air I took in that day for months, and the effort of it made me blue in the face by

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  encourages us to go wild with our imaginations, as long as the end product ... [/annotation]! So here are a few silly instruments I’ve designed throughout the semester (although I haven't had the chance to build most of them... yet

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  those days. the blah The ones that don't feel quite right, but you can ... task harder, interaction tougher, and footstep heavier. The day feels oddly still, like time has slowed and all that’s left in the world is you

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  It finally happened. I got Covid. Right at the last week of ... in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of ... on the spot and then schedule it to get published right after. I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  The last week and some are a blur, a long, joyous drink of EC. When I read the old blogs, the ones before my time (even those written by people ... the way people gather in the courtyard to build a giant fort, three

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  Places To Take A Nap On Campus, Ranked Barker Library - The pin drop silence of the reading room is honestly better suited for taking naps than studying in my opinion. Add in the pretty comfortable green

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  the only way i can convince myself to write anything for the past two ... through setting bullet points for each section, then bullet points for the events in each section, bullet points even to the paragraph and sentence

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  a rising junior computer science major with the luck to have a good ... like the food we cook together, i like when things don't change. i ... insisted that i needed to get out of the house and spend some time with

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020