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• Blog / Featured Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  a tear that I’m no longer young.) In 2004, the MIT admissions blogs ... that I did in my head to write the above statement, so I wrote it down ... class of cancer therapeutics worked. I’d say grad school at MIT is a

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  fullness. Now that I’m (fortunately!) doing a lot better, I remember only the ... wrong, or what to do about it, and that scared me. I was at a complete ... being a mixed person--a feeling that I still have, in milder quantities

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  to fix it. Here’s a list of things that I thought I’d done in the fall ... of things I now realize I was doing: 4 MIT classes that are a ... multivariable calculus in high school."][/annotation] 8.01, a requirement that I

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  twelve years old, put me in the back of a cop car not believing that I ... love, I think is a very important goal, and something that can’t be done ... live, and how to live ethically, and how to live in a way that is very

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in ... into class with that single objective, but I came out wiser in other ways

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  details in the Joke Bezel that I didn't quite catch but here is a picture of ... Bezel is a tradition (I'm not sure for how long, but at least since the ... Comm was a HUGE time sink, it was time I would rather have spent doing

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  country, build robots, or do work in five countries. I also had no idea that ... classes with other courses that I had taken in previous years. Research is ... . I realized that I’d changed – a lot – in the past 10 years. Some

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  people, one shared heritage. But that is what I’m expecting to see in China ... -up. From mid-June to mid-August, I will be working with a professor in the ... contrast from normal coursework at MIT. In a few days, I’ll be turning 20

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  people but i do not remember this meeting at all. cpw is such a blur -p ... Next Forum Games, a precursor to dormspam-the-game, in 14.05. I promise this is all (mostly) relevant.  PA: Outside of my room in Next House, I

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  finished. I remember little of this now except a 12-hour rush in the ground ... CAD. In fact we finished the CAD. I left thinking that while the ... … well the rest is a blur. I was chosen as a presenter, along with Grace

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  note='It is perhaps worth noting, here, that we do not have a legacy ... in the admissions process; a ruling is [annotation note='The Supreme ... — best known in nuclear physics — that suggests a minimum necessary amount

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  is a couplet that i'm proud of: "We’re at a party that’s not the right ... night, working, working, working. i'm trying to challenge myself to do a ... not so good at and that i can usually get away with neglecting. this is

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  depression.[/annotation] [annotation note="cj: citing a paper in a blog post is in character for jacky don’t worry"][/annotation] I admit that my opinion is biased against American cuisine as a whole, considering that my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  ? ----------------------------- Given that I take a lot of photos in China and hate to see them go to ... China is more legitimately a developing country. Shenzhen, which is itself ... . Also, as is typical in China, my hotel had a "massage parlor" complete

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  things I would do if I could do MIT all over again. In my four years at ... been able to take a photo with truly everyone in it ^^; And of course, I ... and senior year I became a lot more involved, also, in the MIT ASA

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  's insane. Equal in insanity magnitude is I became a blogger in 2008, which ... 's senior class is the group that came in right as I left. How I am now that ... between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  campus? Remember that the humanity on campus is in you.” When I ask fellow ... that is good about life as a student. For the visiting senior, there is ... complete without the acknowledgment that it is a place where you will most

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  Student Game Night, and Add Date Check-In, and… It’s a list of things that ... . Last week, I spoke to a girl who enjoys being here so much that she might ... the other panelists nod in agreement. Venturing off-campus is a good way

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  do, all the things that I achieve. As a trained engineer, I had been ... , but do I know anyone still in Boston during Winter Break?   ... first I wasn't quite sure what to do with my newfound Free Time, a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  , losing yourself in your schedule; I think this is what a lot of workaholics ... . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011