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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  here I am 100% sure I will be ready for a career in the Air Force. ... ) for the fall semester's FLX, or Field Leadership Exercise. Over the past ... first, let me start with a little background. The question I get asked

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  world. That’s my goal for the next four years and beyond. In lots ... answer is quite simple. I have the tremendous goal of wanting to find a ... down cancer, but a cure to cancer period. (<-please ignore the fact

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  registered for the 6 hour ground training.  A week later I found myself sitting ... -nighter."  Apparently the club fell apart for a while but in March it was re ... Hello again from out in the real world!  It's been a little more than

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  (songs, for example, are the main element of a musical, or in the other ... accidentally reviewed a book someone sent him. The book was about porn - and to ... interpretation of The Great Gatsby in which Gatsby is a seahorse when asked if

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请

  

  been an admissions officer for a single cycle."]attempt[/annotation] to ... , which makes me feel bad about how long ago, but the pandemic crowded a lot ... Almost 11 years ago, I wrote a blog post called Applying Sideways

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  the Show-Me State, Columbia is a lively college town, except for the ... The last time I wrote a post as I was flying at some undetermined ... magazine. [*Just got to say that I have a poop-ton of respect for housewives

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Like Burger King – Only Not (Guest Entry) That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet.

  

  there for an hour. Or if you don't think you're the Greek type, go to a ... absolutely for sure hands down no doubts that this was the place for me. If you ... , "Ohmygods I can't wait to watch bouncy balls fall out of the sky and play in a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  next year the applicants could try to get all stressed out a few months ... It's that time of year again. I have a love-hate relationship with reading season. The "love" part is that I love reading apps. I love reading

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  I've written in the past about my love for Disneyland. Growing up a ... , prepping for a 7am wake up for the next day. On Saturday, we were still all ... the parks and have a lot of fond memories there from my childhood. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four ... ’ve learned after a year at MIT is that the standards for failing are so, so ... job over the summer. I didn’t get a UROP. I got a fifth week flag for 5

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  more time in and studied harder for the final, which was a really brutal ... The semester is over and I didn't go home for winter break because I ... problem sets without actually understanding the material on a deep level. 6

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  can be a good way for you to meet new people, having acquaintances with ... realizing this is rarely the case this became really clear to me around a ... , and of all the things they could do as a friend to make me feel better

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  academics, because for the first time in my life I wasn't a top student. I had ... why I expected the process of finding my place in a completely foreign community to be a smooth journey. The process is inherently one that requires

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  inside a picture... The Alchemist! We saw tons of bunnies in Killian ... a beautiful piece of art in the snow! Trees Bicycles Even this ... of a snowstorm on Saturday. And I'm sure we'll get enough snow over the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  've believed you. Now, a year later, I'm looking at the statistics for the first ... kickoff the season, I thought I'd share a little bit about my acceptance to ... windshield wipers off. I felt a nervousness I hadn't felt in the weeks prior

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  at the beginning of the semester i wrote a post where i mentioned ... (7.26) and computation structures (6.1910/6.004) at a high level, the ... the last month you work on a project where you fabricate something of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  posting--or for a more dramatic flair, The 7 Capital Vices I Have Oft ... empty, the glass broken, and...*clears throat* Anyway. After a paragraph ... often get distracted by other stuff and lose passion for the initial idea

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  may be hard to tell from the picture, but that's a minimum of two inches ... I hate New England. No really, I do. Ask anyone who's had the misfortune to be around me the last few weeks. All I do is complain about the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Same as it ever was The more things change...

  

  much consecutive meetings from 9am until 7pm for me. This morning was a ... some planning for Campus Preview Weekend, and finally a meeting with a ... see what it was I wrote about one year ago today: For those of you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  five questions: On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest and 1 ... 's opinions on the types of people at MIT - I know there are a lot of different ... personalities of the students. thanks for any help anyone can give. estelphoenix

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005