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• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus ... in, so I decided to apply early action. My dad went to MIT for ... get in. I was almost certain that I would get rejected from MIT, and I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  old. You do not need to finish every problem in the Big Game to get to ... I love to play with big weird words, so writing in Up-Goer Five makes ... to make the numbers add up right in many different ways at the same

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  generally did an okay job representing my feelings, and i'd like to keep it in ... ://conniewenchang.bol.ucla.edu/menus/index.html"]deep history to Americanized Chinese food,[/annotation]but in short, it’s a ... twinge with heat. A bubbling pit of frustration in my chest began to build

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  move in. Messes are often made between the times janitors come to clean, and it's not always easy to determine who made them. And, face it - in ... didn't want to move too far away, because it would be too hard to get to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  collecting every block in the game and getting killed by every possible mob, to ... next time I need to get from a meeting in the Welcome Center to Simmons ... : learn how to cook For someone living in a [annotation note

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC Presents: Black Panther 2

  

  able to get ready for the screening. During this screening, we had free ... refreshments worker, we made 5-6 batches of popcorn in advance to prepare for the ... screen. So many people dropped in to view the show, students and faculty

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  , she going to Vienna and Budapest, me spending 5 more days in Italy and 2 ... back to spend some more time in Rome and the Vatican, headed to Florence ... embarked on a journey to warmer, sunnier lands down south. Two weeks before

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  able to see some family and good friends in both places (if any of you ... . When I think back to my years in Ann Arbor, I can't help but think of ... to have all three during my weekend in Michigan (even had two

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  opportunity ever to participate in a mystery hunt runaround. A few pictures ... birthday, I rarely ever have the opportunity to celebrate my birthday with my friends, so clearly since I had the opportunity to do so this year, I

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  be engulfed in the so-called MIT bubble. Which basically means, getting ... get too-focused inside bubble. People who come to MIT are usually ... trying so hard to do well in school, be productive in the summers and you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  square.   i volunteered in a door-to-door get ... i contributed to in my urop at the center for civic media:   ... about race in education and the school-to-prison pipeline, called notes

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  really have is to "get used to it". Perhaps this is why time is a major ... use about moving on. Closure has become an amazingly overused word in ... what others should do in the face of tragedy. Whether thinking about

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  (like to get into a school or to get that job offer or, in our case, to ... WOULD BE LYING IF WE SAID WE WEREN'T TRYING TO GET STUDENT RUSH TICKETS ... ! We get to the Boston Opera House at around 12:15ish, almost 2 hours

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  two years ago i wrote about how to walk in the best way. but i forgot ... good news is: the boy did not break (in fact it was not close to breaking ... this is also why it is good to keep the feet dry, and wrap them in dry

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  active in.  (I learned to fly pre-MIT and probably won't have much time to ... movements to get a tiny Cessna to move. These controls… were amazingly ... be going about 145 knots to land in this plane". Lower the landing gear

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  students had been putting in to plan, rehearse, or prepare for these ... -streams to display the work they had put in up to that point. We want to talk ... going to the final rehearsal in the last days of us being on campus

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  class!) decided to blog about schoolwork, I decided to pitch in my own ... are given handlebars on the side of the train to hang on to. In the ... , hang on to the handlebars, and meet the blast of wind in your face head

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  pistol team is on its way to West Point in New York for a shooting ... evening against West Point, but first we had to get there. What we ... you miss the black center and hit the white part you get to stare at

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  you need to get any medicine!! 4) Anyone at MIT In all honestly, if I ... work gets to be overwhelming at times, and it's important to know that we ... to help students in need of support, but I think it's important to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  advised me to ask for an “OX” in the class if I wasn’t feeling better by the ... because I wanted to get it over with and be like hardcore but by Thursday ... to be sitting in grade purgatory with two finals from last semester

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016