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• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  didn't go to any of them, for one thing. Sorry to disappoint, but I guess ... Lots of people thanked me for my application advice, for which you ... whole thing. There will be plenty of time to go crazy and lose sleep once

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Institute of Contemporary Art College Night #2 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  before midnight with one of my friends encouraging me to get pumped about ... developments, I will soon gain access to the front of my cerebral cortex, where ... velvet pillow. The trio proceeded to crown me as tsar. The witnesses

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  's Writing and Humanistic Studies department. Dr. Boiko wanted to tell me about ... semester to say she thought the introductory writing courses must rate as ... about our students—how interesting they tend to be and how interesting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  moved back to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. I'm here for three days trying to ... person that I ever knew in high school. On Monday I'm headed for the ... Act of 1957 by speaking in from of the Senate for 24 hours and 18

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  nice and all, but this is an idea that is hard for me not to be doubtful ... for help or participate in groups; when i happen to be in the midst of ... i want to be good at a lot of things out of personal interest and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  better suited your personality? To be honest, during my interview for MIT ... applying to. They didn't really have anything in common except for being ... Posted on August 13 on TIME.com: Who Needs Harvard? "Competition for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  . I applied to be a blogger for MITAdmissions two times before I was ... for nothing because it didn't pay off in the way I had wanted it to. And ... . And a part of me wanted to stop writing entirely for a month. I thought

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  from last term, where by some miracle I managed to get all three. For ... to continue receiving credit for it? - but since I don't know for sure ... 've linked to class descriptions for all of these.) 1) Math. Many of you will

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  jumpscared me while I was waiting for my next class to start! It looked ... preferences, instructions on how to shower, and my personal favorite: unlabelled ... papers to come in. I leave to use the bathroom and for a blessed moment of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  For the past six months, I have been truly privileged to share my MIT ... able to help you get to know MIT a little better than you may have without the bloggers, because I certainly feel as though I got to know you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  learning new things. But I've never been the type of person to, say, read a ... . And that was very motivating for me personally - granted, it was because my mentor and manager chose a very fitting project for me to work on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  too early for a flight has its benefits: you get to sit in an airport ... days (mainly for christmas), and due to a mixture of factors both within ... biased personal take, subject to change blah blah blah [annotation note

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  . Some of you seem determined to make this personal. I don't know how to ... every right to be asking it. I certainly would be. I wish I could get ... most likely, you are absolutely qualified to be here. Can I look at your

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  I'm currently sitting in the SeaTac airport, waiting for my flight back to Boston that's been delayed for ~2 hours. One part of me is ... the deep thoughts limit for this post, and I'm ready to read a couple of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  corner. You’re excited about getting to finally be your own person.You can ... ’t need other people to recognize your worth for it to exist. And that is ... person you’ve become because of the dreams you’ve chosen to chase after

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time and change

  

  until all of my grades were in, and I'm still waiting for two of them (out ... taking the bus down even further south to visit my dad in Woodstock, Georgia. It's very strange. The first few times I went back to a parental

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  it really came true. I never expected to be the person who I am now ... health to the test. I also helped run a nation-wide study with the Personal ... priority for college is to learn how to embrace life.  Life is a series of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  collection of thoughts on the internet for a student figuring out how to make ... outlines for how to get into MIT are do well in school, be nice and pursue ... would be a good fit for my personality, goals and ambitions. I also

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  floor is something different to each person. For the most part, we ... we bloggers do some work on presenting our living groups to you. For ... to fulfill that request. I will try to add some personal perspective on

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  to hop between projects, ask for help or input from anyone else in the ... “visual hashtags” for an infographic. In a nutshell, they used the text to ... ” images to return. State-of-the-art object detectors work fairly well for

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017