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• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  ’ve faced”: Failing the last competitive math test of my career (to be fair ... To the rising seniors beginning to think about their college essays - hello, fellow kids. Are you as stuck on what to write your college essays

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  Hi! Welcome to my comprehensive documentation of my time here in ... 't really come to discover the quirky little dorm until the last day of CPW. So, I've decided to try and take on the reigns and show my process to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  ant06 wrote, "is it okay to get a recommendation from a teacher who's teaching you a subject you are not planning to further pursue, as against the ... care if recommendations come from the subject you wish to major in or not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  waited for the bus from NYC to Boston in a cramped doorway whose grimy ... squid flesh.” Twixt bus stop to the East and hot dog stand to the West ... to black polished submarines, I suffered a J.D. Salinger moment. A sigh

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  : recycling! So, welcome to "Flashback: Part 1," where my older and wiser senior ... am I? I'm Laura, and in my first entry ever, I introduced myself to the ... ? When I do get to MIT, I'm planning to declare Course 2 (Mechanical

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  . Once I got through the initial shock of having to cut out Epcot and ... twenty minute drive from Disneyland, I had plenty of opportunities to go to ... went to Disney World with my dad's side of the family around the age of 3

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  hand to adjust what I initially mistook to be a watch on his right wrist ... responded to his offer first and would therefore be receiving the Dalai Lama ... them in the "Miscellaneous" category, and wondered if my posts ought to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  choosing where to go to college. Like many skills, there's a gap between ... surrounding big choices. Unlike many skills, there's not opportunities to ... simply too different. All this to say: for me, choosing what to do after

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  MIT. So to get a more full perspective,  please read our initial Visual ... have done at MIT in an attempt to illustrate that, despite common belief ... ] figured out that our career goal is to work in the Animation Industry, we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  , "What has America failed to hear today?" Riots were necessary to change ... across the street to the media lab, where the DATA FOR BLACK LIVES ...  https://www.facebook.com/data4blacklives * * * i'm sad i won't be able to attend most of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  Sooo. It all ended a few nights ago. The all-nighter turned out to ... working for 13 hours straight, from 11 pm to noon the next day. Part of the ... were literally quite impossible to do, with my limited orgo knowledge

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  and failing to describe via metaphors. I talked about how there’s a ... mountainsides like trees. I got the tattoo to remember the desert. I’ve been ... stomping ground. There is a beauty to the desert that you cannot see unless

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  have plans to. I’m also not the kind of person to have new year’s resolutions. But I couldn’t come up with anything else to post, and I wanted to ... that I’m applying to liberal arts colleges, so WHY does she ask a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  in the sense of rushing to try and get an answer. yes, the answers to ... about these things is not by forcing myself to think of them — they’re just things that happen to be more on the mind lately

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  Thursday, 10/26, 7-9pm EDT. That's over now, but you're welcome to email me ... 't promise to get to them soon, but I'll try my best. For reference, I've done ... to talk about more than just The Process. Every college is different

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  student's initial reaction to getting into Yale versus their current ... since it seemed low-commitment and beneficial, so I decided to join. I used Coursera a lot in high school to take various Data Science

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  opinions on Cursed Child -- and I’m glad that the fandom took initiative to ... Previous me wrote in a blogpost that I "did not want to write about ... but even more so now. Sometimes we have to dip into other worlds to make

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  , Jonathan H. '25, wanted to replicate Austin Weber's legendary video, aptly titled "THIS MAN FLEW TO JAPAN TO SING ABBA IN A BIG COLD RIVER." The story, [annotation note="to be honest the story seems a little too convenient for me

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  Every year, I try to set aside a chunk of time to reflecting on the ... was a really fun exercise to do because I genuinely forgot that so many ... Screening of EEAAO - March 27 Springfest 2022 - April 30 Flight to SF

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  initially intended to merely play in the pit orchestra, both because I ... I have a confession to make, which is that I've started this post at least five times in the past few months, but never gotten around to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022