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• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  drink's ancient history for a cultural perspective to recreate Lassi. I ... planning in some way, and this one was conducive to that (since planning is a ... world’s biggest challenges to being a good friend. Describe one way you

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  these days, feel as if they've lost a lot of time to the pandemic. the ... hell as well—i locked myself in my room for a whole week to study. masha ... feel the need to...i'm basically a weeb hermit at this point. the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  that used to be very normal, like studying at a certain spot or bumping ... ending and i have an apartment to fill" "i have a suitcase to pack" "and i ... I live a five-minute walk away from MIT, so I pass campus often. It

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  CTY, they feel like the opening scenes to a series of intense coming-of-age movies. When I decided to take a gap year, I wasn't sure if I'd get that ... encapsulate the feelings I get whenever I have to say goodbye to a chapter of my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  ://jspaint.app/"]Microsoft Paint,[/annotation] to jumping off the swings! Being a beginner isn ... our successes, we forget what it feels like to be a beginner. Suddenly ... favorite movie. If I saw or heard anything Tarzan-related, I'd beg them to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  described them to a friend "like stacked rocks." They are delicate and hard at ... with it and assented to its claims. 5. Notes of a Native Son by James ... words with my own pen. "There is a strong argument to be made," Ta

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  not be done, because you are too afraid to let a tradesperson see your ... reason for me to be such a huge downer all the time. Meara, of course ... would motivate me to put it away so that I would have, you know, a floor

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  Kerry, Ireland. It’s the launching point to walk the Kerry Way, a nine ... fallen to 16% when I decided, fuck it, it was time to call a cab. The light ... planning this day out better, so that I wouldn’t have needed to call a cab. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  started, I went to Amsterdam and Vienna with my brother and aunt. It was a ... through Boston, a photo from my second-ever concert.) Today, I listened to ... fact that I get to spend six hours a week in a class taught by Junot Díaz

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  the communities I’m now a part of are beloved to me, but I definitely ... load in about a year, and communicate when I need to take time off from ... me, sounding like a college confidential parent) 5. Not going to class

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  Ever wanted to sculpt a masterpiece out of butter?  Make a city out ... they could come up with. To celebrate the start of the weekend, a ... carving blocks and faces and buildings out of butter. I tried to make a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how ARe you today? Do you Nintendo? On an unrelated note, part of me thinks this and this might…

  

  Alright, a quick peak out of blogger retirement today to share some ... . Basically, in a ploy to get people carry around their new 3DS systems ... ) is swapped between the two systems. I happen to be planning a massive

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  program designed to replicate a natural phenomenon, such as the branching of ... was turned off by academia, and wanted to explore those interests in a ... 'm a little late to the party -- they've already been featured in Popular

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  over to the student center to a different committee, this time to judge ... close. I hoped to achieve a look that seems like fabric from afar but up ... -use than make a Trashion piece? Make sure to look out for parts of her

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  join a special program to study in France and get a side of buttery ... I'm in the process of writing a post about my own summer, but in the meantime, I've got a guest post from my friend Elaine L. '18, who also wrote

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  Patriots would make a stop, and then have to punt; then, they would score ... , Kyle Arrington to make a terrific pick on one set of downs before failing ... period of time, is almost certainly insufficient to beat a good team in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  weren't explicitly forbidden (and because who'd want to piss off such a ... of humor and charm, and genius enough to build a compact fusion reactor ... suit to be a superhero. No "baby I was born this way" origin story for

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life as an Artist things I discovered about myself as it relates to the artsy stuff I have in…

  

  My Life...". But "Life as an Artist" has a better ring to it, don't you ... with this group/family/community and it has been a blast! To make matters ... I am a PRO at stick figures. Just wanted to show you some of my

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  -related applications. All course 9 students have to take a probability and statistics ... geeks, and this is a class that plays to the strengths of computer geeks ... I haven't posted in a long time. This is largely because I have been

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  at that time, but I asked my friend Tiffany L. '24 to get a strawberry ... that rose up within me was enough to make me giddy for a whole day ... giving santa vibes but we love it!![/caption] A few weeks later, I went to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023