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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  yet, at a 65% grade average in the class, I was at serious risk of ... at the last two months of material. Welp. Many times in high school ... legitimately scared by how close the deadline was (usually a matter of hours), at

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  radio debut (there will be more of me on air next year at MIT, just a ... This past weekend was the legendary Campus Preview Weekend at MIT and ... photo of me outside of 77 Mass Ave. (So this is where my application

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  there's this psychological concept, gestalt, the name of which comes ... . but in a group of three, it gives the impression of a triangle overlaid ... brighter than the background, or even closer than the black circles. of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  I've been getting a lot of questions about supplemental material. None of the below is required or even expected. In general, you should ... sufficiently show who you are. I hope this is helpful and answers lots of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  was chosen by all the players). I mentioned at the start of this post ... two types of players I couldn't understand at all: those who donated all ... of 5 games played by the MIT community. Playing the games was

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  fort I spent a fair amount of the rest of REX at, reopened. I filled out ... dorm you'd prefer living in at the end of REX. Also commonly used as a ... ’ve done at MIT so far (in terms of nonacademic work of course). I’ve learned

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  Boston Logan. My arrival at Logan was welcomed with a myriad of texts from ... Robert and Grace and was amazed at all the opportunities and the amount of ... Sims 3 until the next flight at 8:45 a.m. Sims 3 or no Sims 3, sitting

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  of [annotation note="not the final presentation, though. That had at ... my days at MIT working through a haze of sleep deprivation and pain ... this at all, but this fall I was in 2.009 [link]. We sent that project

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  at 10 am. I spend the rest of my time getting ready, reading my emails ... hour of 7 pm. I usually become aware of this fact at 6:30, so I speedrun ... back. I look at the signs and posters on the wall and admire models of

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  , back in April 2019. I had no conception of what the Bombers were at this ... were immediately met by the issue of Walker closing at 10 pm on the ... either, so we looked at the Saturday of that weekend, but it was fully

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  hope the Class of 2022 can have a Ring Delivery to celebrate at some ... first few weeks of the second semester, I went there at least three times ... remember the three of us scoffing at the idea of schools closing and virtual

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  In the spirit of [annotation note="This weekend, high schoolers who ... authentic(!) lectures."]Campus Preview Weekend,[/annotation] some of us ... person or group of people based on a specific topic. You can go down in the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  middle-of-nowhere suburbia, at 3am. Power lines and a small rickety corner ... of family and close friends) to take a look at my essays, taking care ... that I had genuinely gotten the essence of myself across. At 10:55, I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  combat this lack-of-answers in Dali's content (at least, at first glances ... a vast extent of art and culture to be "known" at the museum, even ... Utah to Virginia, but there was no way I could go four years without at

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  I was probably one of the youngest people ever to read the blogs. I ... love. The blogs were one of the first pieces of writing I ever binged ... and liked at CPW, but also the people I hadn't met yet, whose pictures

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  six months, I would have four dollars. For a net decrease of ... of making money. Besides, I don’t know of any such program that gives ... aside, I’ve obtained an above average number of body pillows this past

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  was always trying to process too many bits of life at once. It's a feeling I know many of my peers at MIT have shared at some point. I think ... and friends that come with being at MIT, and the future of the college

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  A few Fridays ago, I sat down (as I normally do at the end of a long ... inability to see what they had learned from it. At the end of the dialogue ... was a good-old three hours of minimal brain activity and the occasional

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  care of them and I cannot bear to see a petal fall. But at the same time ... -about-the-journey-than-the-destination kind of person and I find it bittersweet once my train finally pulls into ... , wishing I could constantly be in the in-between of here and not quite there

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  nevertheless. It's part of why I enjoy going to work at the VA Medical Center ... When I think of suburban Ohio, my family’s current home, I recall the ... family of four. In Bambi times, animals feared humans. Now the mama deer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017