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• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  (i.e. how many admitted students will accept our offer of admission) is ... Marilee perform with my band at ZBT's fifth annual Battle Of The Bands on ... is lots of fun with a variety of interesting threads (this is my

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  seem very nice; the lady offered me one of her crackers. We're flying ... , listening to the Prince of Egypt soundtrack (Hans Zimmer AND Stephen Schwartz ... of Mountains In The Continental United States, so I stopped a random

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  . I had applied to a Summer Research Fellowship at the University of ... In the past five weeks or so, the pace of my life has dramatically ... ’ve found myself with a lot of time to “stop and smell the roses.” There

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  so detached from the larger context of our universe. I hate the idea of ... I made this AI write college essays. Quotes None of these quotes are ... past, and how much of it was just luck. It’s even picked up the impostor

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  party as part of my birthday festivities. i love sunrises lol ... ’re not up lol (okay if not, just thought to offer) I'll probably be awake ... bed I had a weird series of naps What are you up for? Ah I see Not for

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  , filling every square inch of this (albeit slightly smaller than the previous ... impossible. So now, I get to start of my days writing in bed as opposed to ... over the course of winter break. I am left thinking: I hate change. A

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  world am I? Two days ago I won a prime cut of meat by winning a game of musical chairs against a group of about 40 people (the majority of whom have their PhD). Yesterday I apprehensively put the equivalent of almost $450

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  third freshman blogger, class of '15, and I thought I would take a second ... and left for the States at the ripe young age of 1. From there I enjoyed ... The Wizards of Oz(aka my parent's old friends) had a huge impact on

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  started “The Digging Club”: I led two friends to a patch of grass on the ... . Now, instead of using fitted sheets as capes, I buy fabric from the ... and take my first steps into the world of “we don't know why this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  think all or most of us signed up anyway. We like helping.) Actually ... lots of people at MIT interested in helping you make your college decision. I would really encourage all of you to ask lots of questions this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Women’s Week 2005 Learn about both the mission and events associated with this year's week-long promotion.

  

  's Women's Week. Check out the variety of events that are going on. Women's Week 2005 November 5th-10th "To promote a model of femininity that incorporates and embraces the properties of intelligence, competence,and ambition

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  lot of mail. At least a dozen buckets of mail came in this morning, on top of yesterday's already heavy mail . The records office staff are ... MIT Tracking System, though this could take upwards of a week. We make no

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  sheer delusion of your dreams. Release an album? Get a degree? Get a UROP ... anxious. For a little bit now, I’ve been taking stock of my anxiety levels at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  too well. If you get in, here's a virtual mug of my favorite [annotation ... celebrate! If not, I hope this blog, the same virtual mug of tea, and a ... " align="aligncenter" width="1000"] virtual mug of jasmine oolong tea with

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  for something related to your education, MIT offers a lot of ... of companies send recuiters to set up booths at MIT. It fills up an ice ... 's preceded and followed by a lot of info-sessions, panels, networking events

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  thought this would be a good idea because I enjoy the entire process of ... ,  and organizing any noteworthy finds into one of my 150+ carefully ... prospect of consuming 365 new albums in a year. what if I found it tedious

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  on thursday morning, i woke up at 9 am, after only six hours of sleep ... , and mucus discharged from my faucet of a nose. unsurprising, given what ... be a flagrant violation of rules to attend class, and a bad idea anyway

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  , and that I needed some form of exercise that wasn't just long walks with my parents, the only form of exercise that really occurs at my home. I ... enjoyed it because most of my friends were in it as well. One of my most

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  mRNA modifications in yeast. Science has been a major part of my life ... exciting, one of my biggest accomplishments during my time here has been my ... to four of these classes must focus on a specific field—Connie is

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  A lot of what an engineer does is makes things more efficient. As I ... action. The ELLs we’ve done for the past couple of weeks in GEL have covered that. Let me explain to you my life in the context of those ELLs in

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012