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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  after I first stepped foot in Boston. My things, my signifiers of home ... !"]when I was 14.[/annotation] I can stretch my arms wide in the bed and roll ... For most of my adolescence, my bedroom was painted as close as I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I request a fee waiver?

  international applicants, and you can request one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT practices need-blind admissions, so requesting a fee waiver will not have any negative impact on your chances of
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  of junior fall, I lied to my advisor for the first time. He looked at ... you've handled this many classes in the past, so I'm going to approve ... dropped none of them. The next semester, this semester, I learned to hedge

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  , I would've burned rubber. We peeled out of there like the city ... the essay-editing process, I asked some pairs of fresh eyes (in the form ... -cat. ...moving on. Anna: I would like to mention that all of the "rest of the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  . "I'm afraid of failure," I say. Well, yes, they reply, we know. "I can ... projects that exist as words and not in full because I am afraid of starting ... itself in a couple of falls. My immediate reaction was no. No I do not want

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  of fears swirling in my head being at this school. I praise it every ... it's something that's become so ingrained in me because of the way I ... I can't help but feel like I'm some sort of impostor when I talk to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  start typing. In fact, I started my first draft of this entry at 1:20AM ... people. I walked down the hallway of Baker House, dropped my stuff off in ... IHTFP, which can mean a variety of things to a variety of people, have

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  friend". In the interest of furthering the human language, I propose we ... I was out meeting a friend and some of her friends that I didn ... was the most difficult and awkward sentence I've typed in a long time. I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  fact, I wasn’t particularly interested in doing a whole lot of anything ... ’t help you improve. In fact, that’s kind of what I did after last spring ... whole week of GEL in the form of ESD.054 (8 hours a day actually), so I

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  story of how I ended up in 6-2. 6-9 I entered MIT last fall knowing I’d major in 6-9 (computation and cognition). I’d done my fair share of ... top CS school in the world. And yet, when I took 6.1010 (fundamentals of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  five-something am to squeeze an hour of writing in before school. I ... .009 project. But I’m exhausted, and burnout is settling in. Can I keep this up ... . Every hobby I picked up, except blacksmithing, lives in this room. My

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2009!

  

  about the Class of 2009. I'm very excited to see who the class will be! In the meantime, all of you '09s should check out the Firstyear site ... ... yes, we're now thinking about the MIT Class of 2010 (and beyond!). I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  , because I never seem to pick boring applications out of the pile. In fact, I ... again, I thank you and applaud you all. “In Praise of Holistic ... about EA decisions being released next week. And I wanted to check in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  nth Annual Concert in Bad Taste We are the mooninites..

  

  can find a list of the topics that they made fun of (all in jest, of ... nth annual concert in Bad Taste. Basically, they make fun of everything ... What happens when you pack hundreds of students armed with paper

  • by Bryan
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Saturday Night in Simmons it's so busy here tonight [i really need to study or go to sleep]

  

  enough space to run around. And some good shoes you can hard brake in. I ... reference][/caption]In the wise words of the once great Bop-It: "I'm goin' to ... all night again.] said that she has NEVER ONCE seen me locked in. And I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.

  

  finest memories of walking to class in the morning from my dorm were on ... Tootsie Roll, Necco Wafers, and Squirrel Nut Zippers) in the city. Sadly ... more in the way of biomedical internships are quite happy). Tootsie Roll

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  'm standing on a mountain looking out On the street, and I can hear kids in low ... happens between 11 AM and 3 PM. I guess part of it is just because my classes haven’t gotten in the correct rhythm yet. I couldn’t find a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program

  

  the Chocolate City community that I’m a part of now. [carousel image1 ... wrap for Ebony Affair! In the span of 3 days, I got to meet people from ... a panel of students in the BSU lounge[/caption]   From there we

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 25, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  Between June 1st and today, I have: written 5 versions of my ... coaster of editing, getting feedback, and editing some more. In the midst of ... Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing at the University of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  fun in the fall and I’m grateful for the stress relief you provided. The ... there for me**. Like a rock. Or that piece of paper I accidentally ... /no record grading system, I get the pleasure of being acquainted with

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014