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  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  final product. Alas, here is my robot: Its name is Melotaur (both a play ... my first and last name.) Melotaur has brought me much happiness and ... into place. April 27 (I know because it's recorded in my journal

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  much Law and Order this summer?) In my various unofficial capacities as ... , precisely, one goes about getting into MIT. My first response is generally to ... make people unsure of their own merits. But today, I realized that my own

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  my MIT experience. This semester I did all of my psets early. I ... to every class and completed all of my assignments on time. Freshman fall I made the mistake of solving problems with my study group without

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  Hello - my name is Michael. You may know me as Snively. Or you may ... derived during a lecture and my brain almost popped It's been four years ... since you last heard from me. In June 2022 my second son was born, named

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  of that, I am ranking my favorite three songs (I can’t pick one) in ... still my favorite album and I stand by the claim that it has no skippable ... always loud.  You squeeze my hand three times in the back of the taxi  I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  thorough post and also writing it required grappling with my existential dread about the passing of time and a lurking fear that I am wasting my ... Friday nights, so Saturdays are my ‘off’ days; I get up around 9, waste a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  about my experience as a transgender person at MIT. The one thing I just ... embracing memories of my time at MIT because I feel that's already talked ... cutting my hair for me after it had gotten particularly wild who didn't make

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  surprising revival. I’ll also share my experience going to two different ... attend because of my gap year. But first, some history: MIT began its ... on the path to receiving an MIT degree. The Class of 2022 (my original

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  , and I’d had a really long day, but with every step I took, I felt my ... it felt like all my friends and everyone and their mom had gotten a ... people threw around went right over my head. I felt too inadequate for

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  post detailing how and why I went on leave from MIT, in honor of my three ... because I wanted to capture all of my experiences, good and bad, and as it inched closer to a month since my last post obviously I couldn’t fit

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  the effort I've poured into everything in my life thus far." I ... of my robotics team. I joined the team as a freshman because my eighth ... awards that FIRST offers its teams. I worked my butt off, and the first

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  definitely confident of my ability to write. Then, I came here. These (high ... four of my classes have p-sets, and one of them, 24.900, has p-sets AND ... my eyes to the intricacies and mind-blowing consistencies of language

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  deriving amusement from my ridiculous, self-indulgent bit. It all started ... more, with the exception being my friends from out of town who came to visit a couple of weeks in. As shaky and new as it was, my status as a

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  At MIT Admissions, we understand that there have been many disruptions over the past few years. Some of these may have impacted your grading systems. We want you to know…
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  in Hawaii. My dad was, and his parents, and their parents all were, so ... culture never really became a significant part of my identity. So am I “from North Carolina”? A mainland girl at heart? Nothing can beat my dad

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  pretend my midterm doesn't exist my midterm will disappear if i pretend it doesn’t exist if i set down my pen maybe go firespin it will vanish from my todo-list i’m getting tired of fourier transforms these

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  him to an idiot, a lunatic, a catatonic.” 1am: i climb onto my bed and try to fall asleep. unfortunately my neighbors are having a lengthy ... interview. i was pretty nervous for it - it was my first ever in-person job

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  back to Boston, because my time there really made me appreciate how much ... classes I've ever taken in my MIT career; not out of a dislike of myself or ... -class semesters and I need 180 units beyond my requirements to graduate

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  “This is it,” I thought as I submitted my last college essay. “I ... on my mind: What is a “white paper”? What do they mean by ... bearings. They also answered my question about what a white paper should be

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  start is reading the given prompt. This was my prompt for my CMS.616 Games ... journals listed at my resource page at http ... be really interesting to do my paper on spectatorship and Twitch and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021