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• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  had more votes for one of the listed aesthetics than none of them. Most ... -turned-blog-idea on the MIT class of 2029 Discord Server, where I was helping out ... each of our dorms has its own traditions, in-jokes, and lifestyles. I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  . Unlike the majority of admitted students enthusiastically celebrating à la ... more along the lines of “okay, cool?” And boy did I feel guilty about it. Here I was, admitted to a fantastic school, the news of which had

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  ...with programming languages. A few of us have some programming background, but for the rest of us (me!) it’s like … I don’t know, catching up with the rest of ... first project in 4.113, each one of us had to thoroughly research a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  dialogue for each episode is taken from a series of real-life podcast ... accomplish as possible.” it took me another viewing to realize that much of the episode’s dialogue remains true regardless of whether you believe in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  Being a blogger is a bit of a weird job. Your only task is to write ... expressly intended to be published on the internet for thousands of people to ... that famous.) The process of becoming a blogger starts, of course, with

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  . Editor's notes were added in the spring of senior year. For reference, here is my past avatar, a more accurate depiction of me when I wrote this ... NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  The MIT Admissions blogs started for several reasons. One of the reasons was the extremely dull, lackluster nature of the old admissions ... of the school that the admissions office wants you to see. MIT, like

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• FAQ / Testing

  How does MIT consider test scores? Does MIT Superscore?

  (including future sittings) of the SAT, ACT, or English proficiency exams on ... with an asterisk. They should not list practice results or enter a
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  As of this weekend, I have watched Greta Gerwig’s 2023 blockbuster ... rekindled my love of the movie and feel inclined to revisit it. Now I know I ... . Still, like any piece of art, I find it impossible not to pull out my own

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  the ground—at home I did a good 40% of my homework and 90% of my YouTube ... [annotation note="courtesy of the valiant desk guardian Ekanem O."]the front ... stacks of packages are reaching NBA-player height, so if you've received an

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  . Armed with DIY youtube, spackling, mesh, and three different kinds of ... to [annotation note="what sounds like an incredibly draining week of ... and slander your peers) in hopes of securing a bid (an invitation to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  piece that would be added to our portfolio. Here is a selection of mine ... opposite side of campus. At Building W97, the Theater Arts building, I took 21M.601 (Drawing for Designers). It's one of my favorite classes so far

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  maintaining the adMIT anime chat (I absolutely was the lifeblood of that group ... friends"]60+ days[/annotation] of anime and have read tens of thousands of chapters of manga. I learned Japanese so I could watch shows without needing

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: Parts 1 and 2 for Early and Regular Action applicants

  

  your essays, cut down your extracurricular list to the top five ... 're done.” Don’t think of all the ways you could have made the application, or the life described in it, better. Think of your wonderful high

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  into embroidery, (2) a magnificent social discovery, and (3) a gallery of ... sunny day in the fall of our sophomore year. She approached me in the atrium of [annotation note="the Brain and Cognitive Sciences building

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  the competing demands of a fast-paced life. (complete listing of ... 's Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation (DAPER) is in charge of the physical education (PE) requirement that MIT students have

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  openings, film screenings… the list goes on! [annotation note="MIT School of ... exhibition preview feb 12; by Pedro Gómez-Egaña; at the List Center As part of ... this list lol) with my friend Sabine! It was part of a free film festival

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  summer reading list and catching up on a whole list of movies ... of faces and experiences makes it all worthwhile. * Came home to find ... in all the sports championships I care about (or in the case of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  : How do you know adding mayonnaise won't help the taste of say, a lettuce ... , discovered three new species of granola in an unexplored section of the pantry ... of granola flatbread, studied experimental bacon physics for six finger

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  large list of things that I can recall having learned from those classes ... actually means. One thing I wish I had done was make a list of things that I ... and I were Protobowling feverishly. For those of you who weren't quiz

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021