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• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  ." "Alright, what do you like to do in school?" "I like math. . ." "MIT is a ... excuse to camp out), smuggled beach balls in, I gave a speech, we partied ... drive from my house. In fifth grade my parents and I were driving to my

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  4 years now. I'll be honest, I used to know a whole lot more about it, back when I was in the thick of it. Now, my role as a blogger, is to ... the time and see printed in a bunch of books, but there are two bits of

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  .5 hours before boarding starts Try to find a water fountain Wonder why ... latter. So if you ever wanted to find out how to do the airport ... online shopping Give yourself a pep-talk to write so many blogs on this

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  navigating through a bazaar in search of gifts to take back home   ... My parents were born under kerosene lamps. In a place where monkeys ... alarm clock. A place where kites adorned the sky, glistening in the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  certainly useful if it helps me pass a job interview or teaches me how to use a specific tool in my research, but its usefulness can extend far ... in a large, multi-week project. How to identify and search for the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  of the fantasy novels you both used to read, is showing a student ... idk man it was a strange day. haven't written horror in a sec. also ... machine will go. You set a probe in the machine, a thin stick with a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  observe and absorb my and your experiences and fun to compile a project that ... glitter off a three-story tall trebuchet? It will twinkle like the stars in ... better in jello"? Now's your chance to prove yourself on the field of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  I am going to put this together haphazardly, work on it in drips and ... . This place is hard, in all senses of the word. It cuts you to the quick ... could be. There are weeks when you tally up your work, the hours in a day

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’M BACK!!! This, kids, is why you should store your passwords somewhere safe, just in case Firefox…

  

  without a way to recover my saved passwords in firefox (my partially ... 've finally succeeded in hacking my own account, which presents a strange ... here is a puppy for your trouble: If you just skipped directly to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 9, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  trying to find pancakes; others wanted to make a karaoke event. Other B1 ... last semester in [annotation note="a product development capstone class ... laser cutter, teach them how to use it, and generate hype for MechE. When

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  going in as a girl,that know has changed, it if I can get her to read your ... degraded to the dream of a varsity letter gathering dust in the attic. After ... . I feel like it was used in some previous i3 publication (the handbook

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  didn’t have the mental energy to talk or listen. it feels weird, in a ... ,[/annotation] which went fine; i did a little better than i expected to do. saturday ... alone. i couldn’t find the motivation to get out of bed that morning

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  interview? A: You can find your interviewer's information by logging in to ... This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  I am an MIT Admissions Officer, AMA you know the drill

  

  questions on a Friday afternoon. Ben used to do these big roundup "answers to ... to drive up to a meeting in a few hours, and I've got a sprint ... , according to Google Analytics, but no one is commenting, so here's a place to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  admitted students meeting which happened to take place in the town of ... a tangent for a second, I have to say that one of my absolute favorite ... actually did this week and wondering how in the world I'm going to fit all of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  out to his family. Here's his story.   A little over one year ago, I came out to my mom and my dad. Since then, things have settled into a new ... takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  fact, I think I’m happier in all the metrics that I use to measure my own ... I started writing a blog about freshman fall four months ago, in ... ate a breakfast of cheese & crackers. I walked to my first class of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  like the professionals do on how to spend a summer in Boston. Now first ... list of things to do is by no means expansive and there are probably a ... to find: - free hot air balloon rides - free movie tickets - free

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  stuff. In August, I went on a work trip to DC for my UROP at Veterans ... a burger + ice cream + jewelry trip to Harvard Square. It was a ... friend and neighbor (the one with green hair) is a pet mom to two bearded

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  all of campus puts on a bazillion fun events for them!) I wanted to ... 'll share what advice I have, and hopefully it can be useful to some of you ... was a way to decide where I wanted to go for undergrad. I hadn't com

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019