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• Blog / Admissions

  let’s talk about financial aid a different kind of holiday miracle

  

  It's admissions season! To all of you who were that right combination of smart, kind, and lucky to be granted early admission to MIT ... package. I'm a student who has to go to a full need college--the cost of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 24, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  i've started collecting cds. i think part of this has come from ... the weight of. there's a distinct lack of permanence when it comes to accessing my favorite pieces of art in digital space. i flirted with

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  In the rush of finals and the end of the semester, I've been losing track of time. I flew back home to Pennsylvania for the first time on ... a single thought of psets on my mind. I didn't anticipate the end of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  then what to feel  with every shard of grief,  and every speck of ... right now    a lot of the times, i am my first invalidator. it is ... that it is not a big deal. but to pull out of the details of the context

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  first week of classes. It was a fun time, in the sense that I enjoyed ... off-kilter for the entirety of junior fall. So, this year, I proceeded to make the exact same set of mistakes as last year. I landed in Boston

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  , [annotation note="hello cami here. this is? a different kind of blog. ranty blog? the you is directed at certain people in my life and instead of writing ... eating at me for a couple of days now and what better to rid yourself of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  a few weeks ago i asked my friend what kinds of people i should date ... ’t even noticed that i’d been enforcing the implicit constraint of only ... day that i’m aware of and enjoy adhering to, and i think those are

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  if you've read any of my blogs, you know that i'm a former resident of Burton Conner, a dorm that is currently under renovation and will be ... "]REX[/annotation] as a representative of my Burton Conner community, the Burton Third

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  after. From her balcony window, I can see the bright lights of the town ... sets. I can imagine the outline of the forest I would see in the distance ... afternoon and feel sleepy for the rest of the evening. But I feel sleepy all

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  A couple of weeks before the school year started, I spent countless ... organized. It made me pretty proud of myself too, taking baby steps from my ... are curious of how this happened, don't ask. I'm still wondering too

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  with those of the people around me. I'd be lying if I said that none of ... frustration made me aloof. I didn't want college to be a repeat of high school ... could choose my friends instead of spending the whole day around the same

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  *written by Mariam D. '20 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of ... before us, their eyes squinting in the glare of the merciless sun. There’s a myriad of expressions on their different faces that I’m trying to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  . Not out of writers’ block--I truly always want to write, but mostly ... energy, and the rest of the things that come easily are mostly Internet ... , I was reading some articles from “The Cut”, a section of New York

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  remember seeing an inordinate number of calculators. You might’ve also ... Associate Professor of Applied Science and Engineering at Olin College. At MIT ... ). Sanjoy Mahajan sees a general trend of pragmatism in the United States

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  , Anastassia, Natasha, and I met and we picked five of them to be new bloggers ... . And I love the creative process of writing, which has been part of my ... of ways, MIT is my adventure. I hope to share it with you :)  

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

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  One of my favorite of MIT's 500+ student groups is called the ... (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of ... , appreciation of, and indulgence in our favorite substance to the community.  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  this was not one of those mornings. This was a curious morning indeed. I ... + piccolo) below the seat in front of me just the way I was taught by ... of background info: The MIT Concert Band is a student organization, as

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  in a very long time. So I heave the pretty incredible stash of lined ... 'm cheating) off my lap, open up notepad, and commence my play-by-play of ... hours worth of work? God I hope not. Come to think of it, a part of that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  How do you raise hundreds of thousands of dollars, design the merch that defines half of campus fashion, build software that powers ... thousand-person hackathon?  My friends have gotten sick of me yapping about

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  This post contains minor spoilers for the structure of MIT Mystery ... about puzzles, like On puzzles above and below. There’s a lot of non ... The beginning of the end The final runaround Help me because I don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020