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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  I've been sapped of most of my question-answering energy... that or I'm just getting lazy and set in my ways in my old age. Last night Adam and ... assuage my curiousity, what is it about MIT that draws you personally? I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  very flexible with your teacher recommendations. The MyMIT Tracking ... showing on MyMIT; we currently have a backlog of materials in our processing ... then submitted Part 1. When I next went onto MyMIT,however, there was no

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  calorimeter was actually a pretty good analogy for my life, and then I decided I had a problem.   In my head, work is an escape. Working is how I ... do not want to do; working is how I run from my fear that nobody will

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  ..."][/annotation] Like, seriously. Here’s the string of live-texts I put in my sorority slack for my last flight: [visually_hidden]Slack thread that starts ... ." The thirteen replies are as follows: Here is my tale: rebranding for the

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  I LOVE TATTE💖💖💖 back in boston baby

  

  know that you could only be awaiting (all of) my money to support your ... ="117648" image2="117649" image3="117650" image4="117651" /] Although my visit was cut short to direct my mother to the airport, do not fret at the sight

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 30, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  many of my middle school friends, and I was slowly realizing that I had ... challenges. My SSP application, then, was a plea for connection, a desire to ... about fitting in or finding friends were dashed within an hour of my

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  ,  and organizing any noteworthy finds into one of my 150+ carefully ... listener, I had my doubts. [caption id="attachment_83968" align ... my last attempt at a New Year's Resolution. in my junior year of high

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  products that I feel the immediate need to have in my possession: Sanrio ... is currently having on my bank account whenever I walk into a store ... raspberry and vanilla heart macarons...! I saw them and my brain went blank

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day of April) cami edition

  

  I was inspired by Ceri's take on VEDA and partly by my long-time vlogging/blogging influence StephenVlog, who I actually wrote about in my ... ! I'm still getting used to filming important things in my life, as I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 19, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  wants to be like, "Oh my god, I can't let other people know that I have ... love my favorite pieces of media. Turning to fiction for comfort has pulled me through some of the roughest times in my life, especially in the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  me: is this my fourth semester? can you explain that to me? my mom ... writing those words makes my heart beat faster. I could write about how I think to a certain extent my outlook is forever different, now, because I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  late, but I thought I should wait until my schedule was FINALLY set in ... waitlist for my gym class, so everything’s set! Scheduling classes this ... an identity and confidence that didn’t depend on my grades. At the same

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  students who are about to start a new chapter in their lives. So, where’s my ... semester before and had just completed my graduate assistantship, so it was high time for me to find a job and start my life. There was one problem

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  My fellow readers of the MIT Admissions blogs, a great tragedy has ... the ever reliable Anna's. My relationship with the Stud Subway was ... an eye, it has disappeared from my life. My grief is immeasurable; my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  like I’m on top of my work and can keep everything under control. This semester I loaded up on project classes. All three of my technical classes have semester-long group projects. My French class is also an

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  Over the past few years, toward the end of my full-time undergrad and during my MEng, I’ve fallen hard in love with this city—Cambridge, then ... thoroughly exhausted. When I close my eyes at night I see castles, green

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  My family isn't really into traditions. We don't celebrate many ... distance. However, the one tradition that my family does have is our annual ski trip over winter break. This year was no exception, so my family

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/13/14, at 15:16 ET

  

  I've put down my burrito long enough to tell you, as the title ... , visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your MyMIT username and password ... , you should visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your My

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Commence the Commencing! and congratulations to the Class of 2014

  

  prefrosh to unbelievably intelligent and compassionate adults. Most of my functional cohort (and some of my closest friends) from grad school are ... of my friends but will try to occasionally update this post with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  techniques to make what I see in my head manifest on paper. It’s emotions ... extraordinary for my digital photography life. (Photography people, try not to ... curious about all those settings on my camera -- and the meaning of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013