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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  catches photos i have memories of but no part in, i no longer feel bitter ... performed in school because of our friendship. i think i should be more fair ... a factor in everything. i became paranoid of every little thing. were

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  applications. (What???) I'm hesitant to dole out reams of application advice, but there is one thing that I am confident in recommending to you. (And ... ] You can't put on your resume things that you don't [do] Here in 3

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  drinks cool. I opened the fridge in the middle of the night to grab ... snow. It was definitely in the top 3 of my favorite things I've done here ... Despite what I said last time, I did manage to snap a couple of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I test out of some classes by taking Advanced Standing Exams?

   grade in the class; if you do poorly you can simply take the class and the ... subjects outside of the classroom itself. If you're confident that you've already mastered introductory coursework at MIT, then you can take an ASE to
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  out too much or too little of the volume in question. I've shamefacedly ... :30 pm. As I walked out 3 hours later, I had the beginnings of a blog entry in my head. And now, that mental blog entry is here :) I was thinking

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  in on their own. Even in Ishiguro novels that I’m less fond of (Klara ... —based on what I can only describe as the rhythm of the writing, and finished ... that I cannot stand her writing. Normal People is one of the few books in

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• 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 ... go home, by which I mean the fall of 1993 - smoking cigarettes under

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  . I live in Chocolate City, which is a black male living community in one of the dorms, New House. In terms of extracurriculars, I'm involved ... series and the experience of being on the TwT team, in the words of the Tea

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  Bloggers...just wait until you see me in the Infinite in the Fall. I can ... there was more of a story than that. So this semester I had just one ... Thursday and the last day of classes was the Thursday before, so I had a week

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  class in the sequence, 6.0001, because I did a bit of coding in middle ... goals for yourself! All of this sucks me in hard, and on the days I ... .009 makes me (and how I can't stop thinking about it). Sorry it's been so long

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  of the park was designed. When I saw the Millennium Falcon in person, I ... , in fact, not going to vomit. And of course, I did not. I had a great ... great things. And they also can't get rid of me that easily, I will be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  ! It’s like a piece of lunch meat!” and I cried when I was 5 years old in ... , “Colors”, where I expressed pride in the efforts of MIT students and ... an alien. And you can’t focus, so today in the Media Lab instead of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  to a time in sophomore year of high school when it made me so happy i ... 't necessarily simpler or easier, because god knows i had my share of issues in ... i've realized i spend most of my time trying to divorce myself from

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  . They buy blocks of tickets for events in the Boston area and offer them ... When I was a freshman, like many before me and many since, I lived in ... an upperclassmen down the hall who liked to study in one of the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  ever changing. As I learn to believe in that with all of my heart, I ... based on the circumstances of the day, I find comfort in knowing that ... Heads up: I'm not sure if any of this makes actual sense. This is

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  in a kind of daze: I bought a cheeseburger at the cafe car, ate it ... number of...other things. Over the course of the next four days, I will be ... : the beautiful sounds of South Station (nothing) I am sitting on a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  ? In any case, I was pretty scared. Then the first week of classes came ... extent, in the first semester. I balked at the idea of having one's grade ... continuing. Maybe if I paced myself, I'd be taking in all of the material at a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  high school, I had the pleasure of singing under Dr. William Cutter in ... repertoire of music than I ever saw in high school--in five semesters here, I ... Oh, I was going to answer a bunch of questions today, but it turns

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  minutes (in Spanish!) about the challenges of applying Java (which I know ... than in English, in the middle of my English sentence to Adelaide I said ... info of my wonderful adventures in Spain: MISTI (MIT International

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  " to be accepted to MIT, and I can tell you for sure that the majority of ... /AIME, mentorship, inquiry, etc, I don't participate in any of those projects (except ... 're going to be competing in March. I was just wondering if my lack of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006