Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  that dream in the sky that I think I wanted more than other dreams in the ... essay is like, I share mine with you. You'll learn more about me in the ... where I am now. :D) Living in the graffiti-adorned projects of the Lower

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  enough. Then in 2009 I graduated and was never heard from again. Until now! In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the blogs, I'm back to ... that I didn't belong here.  In my second semester, I struggled a lot with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now, but I ... , despite its cream-filled protests, was chucked into a refrigerator, in which ... probably figured, "Hmm, definitely not mine. I’m lactose-intolerant."" Other

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  ." Just a few months ago, I would never have said that in public to someone ... up, I was always the odd one out. Growing up in South Dakota, I was ... people in my class. In other words, I was a perfectly pitiable caricature

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  to know each college and choosing which one I thought I would fit in ... Here's a post I made in my personal blog, around a year ago, talking ... fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  know I would have done anything to get in, and still would. Depression ... point in keeping that rejected feeling alive. That and I really don't like ... 'm in my third year here at MIT, and I've grown up a lot. One of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  ] 2013 In 2013, I made a Twitter account. I cut my hair, and started buying ... , most true to me posts I could find, taken for what they are (in addition to present-day commentary of what i can remember)—metaphorical pages in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  about it. Where I am and where I want to be. Sometimes things happen in ... own, I thought this would be it. I’d have my own life, pursue my hobbies ... . I often find myself trying to find an optimal solution, when in fact

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  beautiful summer day in Boston[/caption] I stayed in Boston last summer. For ... -campus in a new neighborhood. Moreover, it would be an opportunity to get to ... . In the end, it was an imperfect fit but a fantastic summer. I'm so glad

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  from every Hunt would be unreasonable, as I'll talk about in The gift of ... with your hobbies to understand them. Every instructor I've met in CMS ... with the Mystery Hunt, or puzzlehunts in general. In this post, I'll go

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  around a frying pan. Can they see the mess in the kitchen? I double ... the audio on and off until I can be heard. I will try plugging in my ... plastic tote in the background of my video feed. I am in the basement

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  close. I graduate in June, if all goes well. A short while afterward, I ... in cases of strong wind, would unpeg clothes, sending two hours of work ... day soaking in the endless activities freshmen could partake in. I ate

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I ... year was the length of the posts we would raise. In the past we raised ... half actually screwing the sheets in. I expected plywood flooring to take

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ETH, and all I needed to do was fill out some required forms and I would ... , but do I know anyone still in Boston during Winter Break?   ... . Everything was going to be different, for better or worse. I needed to, in many

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  in the morning, instead of asking math questions, I would say, ‘Look at ... would wander into my room to say hi and I’d jump about three feet in the ... of them changed my life in a good way and I’m excited to see the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  where I thought my life would go, I wasn't even close. I would've guessed that I would attend UW Madison (wrong), triple major (typical MIT frosh ... -10 years (not yet). I had no idea that I would bike halfway across the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  that I would end up buried in my work, and fail to socialize with people ... likely result in bad outcomes. The point here is that [annotation note="I ... a boon—why must I have to make this decision? In another sense, though

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  different translations"]back in Cambridge,[/annotation] I still remember from ... notion, but I think it's useful in interrogating why we do things. Consider ... the end of the semester I found it hard to get myself out of bed in the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I sit in my dining room and stare at ... as I prepare to be distracted. All the while, I hear the voice in my ... ? the fact that i don’t have enough desk space in my room and need to work

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  Last Saturday night, I was in my kitchen, looking down at two Pyrex ... right was grilled chicken tenderloins. My goal was to decide which I would ... capitalism would treat the symptoms without curing the underlying disease, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018