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• Blog / Uncategorized

  working very, very hard campus tourism and imposter syndrome

  

  both within and just outside of a painting. Staring ahead, a low-hanging branch frames my vision in a gentle arc of bright green. The Dome, the entirety of main campus, provides a stately, serene backdrop. Just ahead

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • July 22, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  trailers are right in front of Medical, and the line went in front of and ... long all day. Maybe it's because the tests of the five thousand or so ... , where they scan my ID, ask me for my last name, my date of birth, my phone

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  more context (the "real" story, if you will). One of our close friends ... surprise him out of nowhere with his newly found skills. This has been a ... evolved into a larger research expedition of creating a chess engine and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collecting information about my friends im like if a corporation loved you

  

  : 1. who are you  This year, my form had 45 responses!!! Of them, three did not give their real name five gave a misspelling of their name ... their name. The impact of e e cummings 2. how are you  two people are

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 30, 2026
• Blog / CPW

  some cpw events i’ll be at

  

  some of the events I'm planning to be at. If you're having trouble deciding which of 10 simultaneously occurring events to go to, here's some ... Cafe x Gothgirl IHOP: we'll have a lot of grilled cheeses (and gothgirls

  • by Victor D. '27
  • April 15, 2026
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Minesweeper Monday: Episode 3 the wait is OVER

  

  posted the first episode of Minesweeper Monday, which some have called "the most important piece of media in the 21st century," and which others have ... , January 13, 2025, the entire readership of the MIT Admissions Blogs eagerly

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  our perpetual battle with the mit weather machine spinning arts needs a shaman

  

  puddles and the piss of Zeus himself with only the fire of their props to ... worked at this point, we might as well try. I don’t know where the lair of the weather wizard lies. He, the arch-nemesis of our fire dragons, is

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • November 15, 2025
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  to Newbury, creating long notes lists of all the restaurants you want ... much time in [annotation note="Fifth floor of the Stratton Student Center ... here. Over the past 3 weeks, I’ve found myself doing all of these - but

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Honse. Nnnyeeeeeeiiiiiigghhhghhhghhhhhh!!!!! 🐎

  

  those of you who don't know, this is what a pony looks like: [caption id ... out and start selling glass ponies in the streets of Venice. [image ... of Monster with Reese's Puffs every morning for breakfast (can and all

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  slipped out of my backpack on the plane...silly me. I checked my location ... there. Unfortunately, I have no intentionally-taken photos of it, but I did manage to find the bottle in the corners of old photos! Pardon the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  flurry of many things, but second most importantly, it’s been a flurry of ... ="108229" /] In honor of holiday meals at home, I want to share a holiday meal away ... 12-person feasts on random weekends in the middle of the semester (very

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  We require letters of recommendation for our application. We strongly ... of recommendation from different academic areas of study, we understand ... of recommendation. In some cases, you may ask a teacher who you
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  As of this weekend, I have watched Greta Gerwig’s 2023 blockbuster ... rekindled my love of the movie and feel inclined to revisit it. Now I know I ... . Still, like any piece of art, I find it impossible not to pull out my own

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  vanish from my todo-list i’m getting tired of fourier transforms these ... the mud so concerned about right and wrong The giver of permission ... the echoes murmur louder Get up and fight me Are you afraid of your own

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  to [annotation note="what sounds like an incredibly draining week of ... and slander your peers) in hopes of securing a bid (an invitation to ... Charles River on the north and the glittery high rises of Back Bay Boston on

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden, part 2 a zine carved out of pink erasers

  

  ="aligncenter" width="507"] specifically from the tree in front of Walker Memorial ... ![/caption] text for accessibility: yellow aspen leaves the liminality of public ... rides This iteration of "things that are golden" was inspired by

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  By my count, there are 61 times I've referenced a song in one of my ... there's an average of one song every 2.8 posts. The song mentioned the ... . Of the 57 distinct songs, 41 are in English, 14 are in Tagalog, 1 is in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  makes sense, given my role.  Many of those requests, understandably, come ... from the college process.  While the specifics of each situation varies, the underlying question is almost always some variation of “How do I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  of six sestets, having the same six end words in each of the stanzas, but in a different order. The poem ends with a tercet which has two of ... have started gradually converting the rest of 4W to the cult of poetry

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  both in the context of writing a blog and in the context of being a ... out of your control, so it doesn’t make sense to put too much weight on their decisions. doing so can be exhausting and bring lots of emotional

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022