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• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors ... applied to college 2 years ago (2 years! I'm old :( ), I wrote over a dozen unique essays to all the colleges I applied to (btw - applying to 15

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  at a distance staying in contact with friends from home

  

  people that used to know me best. Around this time 3 years ago, I was a senior in high school applying to college. After 17 years (and soon to be ... really just wanted to get out of high school and away from home. Recently

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 20, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Northern Lights in the Not-So-North! aka GO OUTSIDE TONIGHT

  

  HEAR YE HEAR YE THIS IS YOUR TOWN CRIER SPEAKING! It is my solemn duty to inform you that NORTHERN LIGHTS ARE AGAIN PREDICTED FOR TONIGHT ... drove all the way out into rural Mass to get these views![/caption]  

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 12, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Awesome Robot Competition? LIVE?? Check out the 2.007 Final Robot Competition! LIVE May 12th/13th!

  

  DIAGRAMS??   Well then, you’re going to LOVE the 2.007 Manufacturing ... working tirelessly to create robots to overcome this year’s challenge board ... class and plan to write a longer blog about our experiences, but we couldn

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  .” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby *** I have come to the profound ... fully carpe diem-ing or whatever. Is how interesting I am proportional to my ability to be interesting, to do interesting things at this

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  Student Center, and we need to be working.  I’m currently working on an ... about the class in my next blog, to be posted this week, but this is what ... the last hour. I call this “The Finger,” because it’s what I will use to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  this up goer five thing ended, since I wish nothing but to use normal words again. But then I thought that I may never get to call "Big Rock ... pictures, which speak for themselves. The Big Rocks have a lot to say, just

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  ;1/3 of my music listening. It’s mostly to discover new songs ... out the other while walking to class, while eating, while doing chores ... reviewing Amazon products, but I only bow down to the Bezos occasionally, and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  relieved to finally be done with anything. It was both distressing and ... gave it my all. I used every bit of time I had left to slap together a ... I learned and the grades I earned. But If I went to more lectures

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  remember the first job I ever wanted to be was an interior designer. I drew lopsided houses in school and haphazardly scribbled drawings to proudly present to my kindergarten teacher, who graciously accepted them with a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  and part 2 to get up to speed if you haven’t already. We spent most of ... , we met Djuena Tikuna (the indigenous singer who was to perform with us ... finally complete! Djuena then taught us the lyrics to a song in the Ticuna

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  to fly home the day after my last final instead of waiting just one ... thought back to last winter. Around this time last year, I was writing about how I was doing fun things to keep my mind off of finals and having

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  and behold -- snow was finally upon us!!!! at 3 pm i walked to [annotation note="grocery store in the student center"]laverde's[/annotation] to ... them and was immediately seized by the need to try them, even though i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Exam Cram a comic in which my friend tries to save me from chem

  

  Bonus: 3.091 (Solid-State Chemistry) class has a weekly meme contest. Because I'm a try hard and didn't know how to make proper memes, I drew a ... 'm going to spew it here onto the internet.

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  MIT Look For?", but that was really a way to open a conversation into ... very long time. It will be unsurprising to longtime readers, therefore, that my to the question of what we look for is the kind of thing you can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  approximately $40 because those body pillows had to be purchased. Unfortunately ... , about a mile from MIT. It was a convenient 8-10 minute walk to get groceries from Target, Hmart, or Daily Table, or to grab a latte from Caffe

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  we welcome first-years to the dorms around campus ... a few other committee members, I had to design and run the first and only virtual REX at Next House, not to mention the UROP I was working on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  't sure if I was going to make it through my first semester classes, yet ... moment to the moment. Now, I have just about two weeks of classes left. In ... handful of essays to get through. I should be stressed out - really really

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  It's April. I’ve been on campus for close to two months now. It ... really don’t want to do much of anything except maybe lie in bed and stare ... ’t quite manage to erase. Summer really cannot come soon enough. It is coming

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  Given how depressing and sad the last few days were, I’ve resorted to ... the extent to which they're amenable to idling is very different. I don ... all, it's more fun to play idle games when you're juggling several of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020