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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  pole that sits in front of the chair. It has enough writing room for even ... sorta makes up for in stylishness. The seams in the seat are complimented ... ! That's all for now, I'll let you know in the coming months which chairs

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• 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 ... and not changed my perspective. I am an angry crier. In high school ... for the rest of the day in the spirit of productivity. If you know me

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

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  read this quote was in an article called In defense of amateurs, which ... : calligraphy. I talked about this in an earlier post, where you can read me ... first mentioned this song in a blog post two years ago, and it's always

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  them. In the meantime, I did an Instagram Live for MIT Admissions with ... a significant amount of sitting in coffee shops (rip) and studying for ... being a positive thing for me in the long run. What are you working on

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  blag! That gives me an excuse to procrastinate for like, 3 more days ... posting--or for a more dramatic flair, The 7 Capital Vices I Have Oft ... absolutely nothing in particular. In one of my 7.013 lectures as a freshman

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  ’m an alum of French House. I graduated in 2012 with a double major in ... happily forgot about insects for four years in a wealth of friends, classes ... for “moths brazil” and this was the first hit. Look, here was an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  I have known for some time that my approach to things can be ... ,  in favor of blank pages that forced them to create their own images ... spontaneously reaching for the flip video camera when my son refused to eat his

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee Wrap Up For those interested . . .

  

  each candidate would be available for in-person interviews. However, the ... interest in this process, for reading our many emails, and for responding ... selected through an application and interview process, and many of you

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  who are in sororities and fraternities) view the 4th of July. For many ... and are in town from New Hampshire for the day with their parents. They have enough space staked out for a family of 10, and in a primo location

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  for four to six weeks – [annotation note="In hindsight, maybe not the ... Remember two weeks ago when I blogged about how excited I was for this semester? Well, in a dramatic turn of events, I suddenly became

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  to its end. And I do not want to be just an entry in the registrar ... [/caption]   A brief cameo in an SFS video. Not sure why I did this.   A ... bug for me PLEASE in central square where tosci's used to be PLEASEHi, I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  mention a lot of building numbers in this post. For more information on ... ="SuperUROP is a program where you do research as an undergraduate for a whole year ... execution is leftover in some micro-architectural state, and now an attacker

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  1 would be a high school cafeteria burger and 5 would be an In ... for being able to do a full performance in a lecture hall without ... 11/9/2013: At the time of this writing: > I'm sitting in a cozy

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  example, one of my favorite students spent a year as an EMT in Israel before ... taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  my favorite students spent a year as an EMT in Israel before his ... taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  This summer, I worked for fourteen weeks as a software engineering ... learned this summer and what it means for me going forward: I shouldn't care that much about compensation. Of course, most people are not in a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  ? Last semester it was “no” for me, but this semester it’s “yes, I am totally positive.” When I registered for classes in the fall (last) semester ... and you fall asleep in your chair, or at least get pretty sad and decide

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  time, and realized that if I were to become an actor, a major in theater ... that I don't. Not in an imposter syndrome, I-don't-deserve-to-go-here way, but in an I'm-still-very-lost-like-every-other-college-student way. I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  stress for what now seemed to be an endless four-year marathon to ... of language (like me). We even found out we were in the same crew for ... Here's the thing about me: I'm naturally an introvert. Talking to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  great applicants got turned down, and getting in as an international ... helps in the transfer admissions process. If you are intending to go for ... on it for an engineering applicant. Not everyone can be so lucky as to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007