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• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  identity. In addition, I want to study the roles writing can play outside of ... irrevocably changed in many ways (my meme game has improved exponentially), I am ... , which I participated in during high school. Then my dad was like, "I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  your computer in its entirety.) So I actually did this "interview" back ... times when I felt pressure from my parents to practice piano. In the ... !" That's when I realized the power of what you can communicate expressively

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  I'm in the Pacific Northwest, waiting for my Seattle Central Meeting ... Grand Theater in Tacoma. I hopped in my car and drove down I-5. The film ... to have some sense of as much of America's cities and towns as I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Upside-Down Letters We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I can…

  

  -bad letter even worse. I only hope that you can accept our apology and ... override our other efforts to show you - in pretty much every way we can ... MIT stationary, I cannot begin to tell you how sorry I am. That is

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Field Trip Every day brings something new.

  

  that goes on here. Case in point: over the past year or so, I’ve been ... type of person, I was impressed by everything these groups had built in ... a little more - but in the mean time, just thought I’d share these

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 22, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  's laughing in the background So this is how it ends I promise to never go outside again from waves: I watched my wild youth Disappear in front of my ... yourself. TT: I would feel the same way if I was in your situation. TT: Which

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  this post, I was sitting in my room in New Vassar, waiting for the sushi delivery I ordered to arrive. The sun was out today, fully, in a way it hasn’t been in a while, and I’m really into it. I think the time I spent in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  do want to put in enough time that I can see some progress every ~2 ... In the rush of finals and the end of the semester, I've been losing ... in my bed for a solid thirteen hours. I've spent my time back home with

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  infrastructure, because I can’t imagine biking everywhere in Boston or Tucson ... . In the past three years, I’ve visited over 10 cities and lived in three ... in a place where only driving made any sense. Now that I've been

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  of my friends started a family plan in second semester that I hopped on not really knowing what I was in for. And granted, for the first few ... Tunes, although it was nice to have premade playlists in genres that I liked. This

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  I made an AI write most of this post because I forgot I needed to post this week

  

  give it. For example, this is the prompt I gave GPT-3. This is a great idea for a blog post. Unfortunately, I'm in the mood to post about very ... I didn't know what to write this week, so I made GPT-3 do it for me

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  most fun: Denial. Keep in mind that this is just a sampling. I slept a ... featured puzzles were just some of my personal favorites. In a few days I ... good night. In other news, my weekend has been amazing. I have basically

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  a close friend. In this post, I'll describe how I made the decision to ... next 51 weeks. Motivation and Rationale I've discussed briefly in some ... nearly six months in a household I had long since outgrown. The next few

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  in the middle of Siberia. I woke up, tried to study, but ended up lying ... and the unfortunate effects it can produce. I'm going to make a ... in the next few hours, neither is that something my head can handle

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  Bloggers...just wait until you see me in the Infinite in the Fall. I can ... to study right? So what I've learned is that you can only read a book ... fell asleep on my couch. i can't study anymore. i've read my notes

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  .01; Physics I)! 3 excruciating hours in an indoor track field - can't say I did ... ." Chris S: "My finals and I can write a bad romance." Hamsika: "Finals ... in that class! I'll be glad when it's 12:01 PM on Thursday, at which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  I'm back in Boston and absurdly jetlagged. I promised, though, that I ... proceeded to scream into an iPhone in a bathroom in the Mission so loudly that ... promising future in screamtech. I'm also very proud to show off Danny and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  Hello friends, As you can guess from the title of this post I am ... exactly sure what I had, but I was basically either in bed or at MIT Medical ... ). I’ve only really caught up in 6.042 (Math for Computer Science), I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  life got turned upside down", I figured I might join in with the chaos ... crossword puzzles! [you can find these online; i won't link directly though ... Entertainment movies I made a Discord server to keep in touch with my friends. We

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  trigger built in; that for every person, there is a sentence that can reduce ... interview. i was pretty nervous for it - it was my first ever in-person job ... through while growing up and also because i’m worry-prone in general, so

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023