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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  , of saying this is mine and this is how I want it to look. I couldn’t dye my hair, or pick my haircuts, or dress how I wanted to dress as a ... figuring out how best to store the objects that served no purpose except to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  ? Yes! Instructions on how to request a fee waiver are detailed in the ... the comment section below. To tide you over before questions come in, I ... designed to help the admissions committee get to know you as a full person

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  just on the horizon. I wanted to share what my daily life looks like, in this time when no one's life looks like it used to or like they expected it to. Here's a muddled average of all the things I've been up to these

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Over Again Applying to college all over again.

  

  Four years ago, I started to apply to colleges. Four years later, I ... 've just started to get exposed to interesting topics in bioengineering that ... starting with mechanical engineering and now going on to PhD programs in

  • by Bryan
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  initially,” he says. “During training, we learned how to fire guns; it damaged ... . I often find myself flitting from coast to coast, but still haven ... since the beginning of June.  So I decided to take a train from Boston to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  about overscheduling; they just wanted to know how to get into MIT. Now ... Press about our Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones. According to Google ... , from rural Saskatchewan to southern Mississippi. Most prominently, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  You learn how to navigate MIT. It’s inevitable. After you stay here ... 've learned to appreciate how much of the Institute is its people, but I've also learned how much the place shapes its people. Four. I used to play tennis

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  when i’m unable to write exactly how it feels in my head so [annotation ... applying to be a blogger ! in my application i talked about how i honestly ... have any metric for how long 2750 words is supposed to be so i have no

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  class gets you to really absorb is how differently real-life situations ... implementation. You choose how to write the code that does what we need the robot to do. You choose how to interpret it. Everything just needs to fit a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  that's happening... "Oookay, for the test. Who knows how I had time to ... Hey all, sorry to be absent for... what has it been by now... three weeks? That's inexcusable for a freshman blogger! So I will have to make

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  need for classes, then use a book search engine like this one to see how ... I'm not going to lie; being a senior pretty much rocks. I'm only ... possibly a paper between me and graduation. Not to mention that my grad

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  /pianist and a guitarist, generously played our event. Our team focused on how to ... was the flour mix and ratio he used? How did he come to the perfect ... struggling to commit pen to paper. She said, “how am I supposed to make every

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  how my beloved world was created and perhaps even figure out how to ... over how to disable random battles that I eventually asked my parents to send me to programming camp to learn how to most optimally hack the game

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  you cry, makes you laugh. We wanted to learn how to do that. MIT has ... /animatics of Steven Universe episodes. It was SO cool to see how such simple and ... movies, we have wanted to learn how to design characters like this. MIT

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  'm excited to see how different my academic life will feel now that I'm out of ... classes. Can't wait to see how the semester goes! ... , so I'm not frazzled like I was last fall. I feel like I'll be able to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  on how to use Matlab. We work through different algorithms and ... [i think i need to drop another class] Hey gang, it’s your favorite failure, back to fail a little bit more! I think that the weather has a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  on coarser movements—how to time my entry, the broad strokes of choreo ... your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than ... , to me, existed as a series of songs someone had compiled in a You

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  's the parts that I don't know how to phrase or that I forget to talk about ... , and nothing else. It seems almost inevitable that this is going to ... sense. That researcher sucks.” Or “That’s such an uninteresting thing to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  that added challenge was something we just really did not know how to ... free computer lab periods. We started learning how to make friends again ... , yourself. On your terms. How and when you want to. You might not be ready for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  always on different dorms, live in each other's rooms for several days to ... would to a joint blog post and write about our experiences, but never got to finish it. two years later, jessica and i are neighbors at next

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019