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• Blog / Challenges

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  was just the semester ending and having a break for a while during ... I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since ... fullness. Now that I’m (fortunately!) doing a lot better, I remember only the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  “single story”, a single perspective on an issue. For China, the frame is ... can repeatedly land on a perch, the way birds do, and he is fascinated by the way passive mechanisms allow us to move about. For example, this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video called "Gangnam Style" was released over the summer by K-pop rapper PSY ... Influential People in the World" in 2012 for his liquid metal battery research

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  coming to after spending a year with the group I would 1000% recommend it ... groups outside of Cruesdays where you can grow with a group of people. The ... ="101923" /] In the fall we also went to a retreat with these students to New

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  , I have worked at a university, a non-profit, and, now, a for ... cosmopolitan cities in the world. My five-kilometre commute to work takes a mere ... gender-neutral?), and a Spaniard. As a friend of mine said, it's like the G

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  potential courseroad for CMS degree Now, the reason we scored this a 9. We ... a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major ... this medium has the power for real social impact, through identity

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  reasons, joining Delta was the right decision for her.  A strong support ... entire family lives in the Northeast, so this was a new area for her. But ... and received a regional award for his commitment.  Finally, the social

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  uninstalled Instagram and Facebook- a good idea, except for the fact that I ... the heady ecstasy of MIT materializing out of an abstract dream into a ... coursework, the realization that I had to drop a class, and the good sense to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  line for, order, and purchase a cheese sandwich at the Stata Center ... , running the digested DNA on a gel, and choosing nice-looking plasmids for ... (This seemed like a really good idea for an entry when I was on my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  above) for the first time—super fun and tiring! There are a number of ... )—on Tuesday night, I went to see Vince Staples for the second time, which was ... has changed in the past year. I think that I’ve done a lot of emotional

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  furiously. I had a deadline at 5 pm for my Economics of Health class essay, so ... weather today for the marathon? But it should be done by now though” and ... back to Macgregor from the library? MITPD was always there to offer me a

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  wanted that job for a long time. 2. How I blog - the writing and posting ... : Do you follow the admissions blogs / have a sense for the culture? Does ... the MIT admissions site, and I began reading the blogs. Mollie made a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  company they have the bare minimum of qualifications for. I recently read a ... 't have a UROP for the summer until April lol"]middle of November ... or Not To Job For [annotation note="mostly the course 6 ones"]a lot of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  this entry. I've been biding my time, waiting for this day and the ... limbo of deferral. This entry is for the deferred. This entry is my story ... questions (What do you do for the pleasure of it? Which department or program

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  , and it turns out that the book was written as a screenplay for the movie ... and spent hours daily daydreaming up new stories for the characters in ... absorbed into a world on paper. College has effectively eaten up the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  factor controlling the admissions process. Suppose, for a moment, we didn ... here for the sake of argument). We could build a working admissions ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... or noteworthy for the blogs. (Also to organize ... initially MASSIVE and incredibly high-resolution for a single image. Maybe it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn ... 'm talking about an opportunity for personal growth. It's the big selling ... you need for shelling out something on the order of (tens of) thousands

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  starting out with separate artstagrams but may in the near future make a twinstagram lol We're bad at goodbye's so, for realsies now, bye! ... P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  hours just before midnight. Beacon Hill is very quiet for a neighborhood in a city. Vines reach up into the darkness. Trees whisper above us ... Furniture Hardware, in the fourth photo, has a vast display of doorknobs

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016