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• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  failing to release such samples to the public. "We will change that," said ... writing habits. "It appeared to me that regardless of what a student wrote ... the panel from the College Board disagreed. "He told me I was jumping to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  experiences that stand out to me. I present to you a brief highlight of the ... ombre color that matched my winter jacket. It was also a relief to have my hair in a protective style for a few weeks and not have to think about it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  since high school. I expected to feel annoyed: in an objective sense, I ... wanted this to be recognized. Instead I just felt relieved that there was ... . Actually it was wonderful to see how many things had stayed the same, little

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  house team sent care packages to the residents housed in baker. there was chocolate, and granola bars, and a note. “we look forward to gathering with ... was supposed to be may 31, but because of the situation, we could (again

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  expected, but still never fails to amaze me - is how awesome the people I ... I’ve decided I talk too much. I need to give some other people a chance, which is why I’ve been reaching out to others in the GEL Program

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  .011) are classes offered to students who failed or especially struggled with ... ! This semester I'm taking 6 classes, but I like to tell people it's 5 ... to get 100s on the psets and above 80s on the remaining midterms, which

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used a ... desire to be quirky with a nonstandard prom dress. Unfortunately, my senior ... neither did my DIY dress.  I finally had the chance to dust off my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  of the projects were interesting and enjoyable to work on   i ... theory classes at mit. it assumes the ability to read knowledge as well as ... project is to compose a movement of a string quartet, and it’s cool because

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of ... click bait-y title lol)   Feminine What does it mean to be a woman ... bridge, and I’m starting to apply for jobs and work in tech and do those

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  Ave and toward Killian. And at this point, words fail to do justice to ... , like unicorns or people that don’t like Taylor Swift. What’s not to ... friend and I were taking the same Intro to Java class this IAP, and spent

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  option. You figure that the world is over and that you're going to fail out ... complex analysis and goodness-knows-what-else to do that. So, you don ... . - Experience has suggested to me that this, much like using NaBH4 to reduce an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  *Ahem*. When I applied to MIT, I put down on my application that my ... to do) was mechanical engineering. I liked to build things and create things, and I thought that led me to being a mechanical engineer. Fast

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  Something happened to me this summer. I'm not sure exactly when or how it took place, or if it had anything to do with me becoming a senior ... having to park it on a dirty latrine). Maybe we took the whole maturing

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  The end of the semester has come and gone, and although I meant to ... trip to India drained me of all motivation and I basically just sat ... some point this semester, I did have to ask a friend where the hell

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! 🦃 Yara has a peath sign on her head!

  

  , and she wanted a cute video to send to the family group chat. So, I put ... … wait for it….DARY [/annotation] in my family. Every year, without fail, I brace myself for the number of times I plan to hear it on Thanksgiving day

  • by Hala K. '29
  • November 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  very little bandwidth to marvel at this phenomenon because I’d failed to ... rehearsal, “We’re going to Brazil!” Suddenly, samba music began blasting from ... works for several years. In fact, the trip to Brazil would likely have

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  markets and analysis of why markets sometimes fail. Empirical examples to ... much more than the material that is directly taught to you. If you’re a ... whole point of college to take classes and learn things? At MIT, I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  " never fails to make me laugh. Just thought I'd share....) Right. Moving ... , not three, but FOUR times since I last did, it is clearly time for me to ... allowed to say that on here?) I do, however, care whether YOU win or lose

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  impossible to think, or to make any useful decisions at all. I wake up and feel ... activity I’ve done in the past day. This unshakable exhaustion is not new to ... I have observed, is to genuinely care for each other. — "IHTFParadise

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  to MIT, I am sad to report that the habit has ceased and I no longer ... burnt by the burn-out of too much work to do and I steer clear at the ... ="HI BRY!!!."]Bry[/annotation], recently told me she bought tickets to run in

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024