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• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  , and I'm not sure that, if I was accepted, I would decide to major in a ... would you come to MIT and major in French?" I don't know how much of this ... the humanities; so consider whether that would be an issue. I guess in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  . When I walked in, there were 20 +/- 2 girls sitting on the floor, wearing ... , which meant that I couldn't see myself in the mirror - a blessing, as I ... direction. I stumbled left. Ashley stopped, and tapped her feet in front of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  : "Would you mind answering questions to a student in highly interested in ... ^Pi would kick both their asses. And I guess his argument was somewhat ... has nothing to do with my ability to take you in a fight. The reason I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  peaking and plans were forming. Book Launch In 2012, I started working on ... you had asked me why I was writing the book, I probably would have ... written. I couldn’t say why, but it just had to be, and in the absence of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  ? Especially since I'm still in undergrad and so much of my life is ahead of me ... could improve", that would probably not bode well for my future. I don't really remember if I had any resolutions in 2022, but in retrospect, I grew

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  to wonder if I would have been in the 40 percent or the 60 percent. I ... living in. And I’ve even started to make my mark on the walls. I would ... “dorm culture” was a thing. I wasn’t (and still am not) in any MIT 2020

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  obvious to me, and are just matters of personal taste. Why would I study in ... comfortable for me? (This means I spend most of my time in my room.) Why would I ... , that I'm just told these things and they echo back in my thoughts as an

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  I spent this past IAP at home in Central Pennsylvania. This is where ... weekends when I can. PA is colder than Boston, or it feels that way. In the winter the grass is covered in hoarfrost (иней in Russian, I learned) that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  stabbing someone in the neck is just as disgusting as I imagine it would be ... summers to catch up on the hobbies that I don't actually partake in at all ... in over summers. This summer, I think I've made a reasonably sized

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  In February, I interviewed Holly H. ’18, about her art gallery in the ... feels really powerful; it’s something that I’ve been trying to do more, in ... constantly be making things, and after a while I just had too many things in my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  So in between reading applications I've been sitting in on CMS.790 ... , and say: "Hey Flourish! I'm Chris. I work over in admissions. A decade ago we worked on FictionAlley together. I was in the group that fled Fan

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Check the Mail Pyramid!

  

  , if I were in charge of mail I would probably not process anything just ... sent in my scores awhile ago, but I still don't see them on My ... skills. BUT - I'm NOT in charge of the mail. Our processing

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 2, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  Back in October of 2022, I flew from Boston to LA and drove two hours ... stuff, what have you -- I try to always keep a tab on what's going on in ... initial launch believe it or not) but I would say [annotation note="It was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  of the day, I would just be clocking in my 8 hours for money and that ... classes I'm interested in, rather than just trying to fulfill random ... critically about the games I'm playing. I learned to view games not in a vacuum

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  have never before been this prolific in a 9:00 AM lecture. Maybe I should ... mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." -- Erdos I would ... 9:00 AM! How on earth will I stay awake in class?!?! I have an idea....

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  of my friends started a family plan in second semester that I hopped on not really knowing what I was in for. And granted, for the first few ... Tunes, although it was nice to have premade playlists in genres that I liked. This

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  ="ugh I love Rowena sm, I even went to a meetup with her in pre-covid times ... perfectionist? I don’t know. Maybe? In some instances? I think we’re all ... March, I’ve been telling anyone who would listen that I’ll finish it soon

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  course none of that would happen, because I'm not living in Random. I ... . Although I lived in Somerville in fall 2020, it barely felt like I was living ... closes in, I've started to get my hopes up high for the school year and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  cook more than I would normally have time to do! In addition to my usual ... IAP is in full swing, and I am having a blast! At MIT, the second ... 's honestly a bonus (living in EC means I really don't get much unintentional

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  part, but I love how people in this major help each other out, lift each ... sleep than we will get that night. On Fridays I have lab in 2.678, an ... lab is not my favorite part, I think. But I like coming in, walking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021