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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  my head all Monday night. As part of my summer of fun, a few friends of ... , the Ballroom Dance Club offered lessons in Mambo. My friend Jackie and I ... well) Aspiring ballroom dancers learn to dance the Foxtrot. That's my

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  maybe my favorite story from last year's early action will help lighten ... mail, only to find NOTHING from MIT. So, I have taken matters into my own hands. I wrote a note to my mailman, telling him to leave anything from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my ... with my uncle out in Shinnecock Bay. Nothing too big: we were just going ... their MIT application. In my three years of reading applications, I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  Hi folks, Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over ... . But only you can decide if it's worth your time/money/effort/etc. My scores are xxx and my grades are xxx. Should I apply EA or RA? Again

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  this is my favorite part. First of all, every day is calibration day ... "]thought experiments[/annotation], and the innate beauty of equations. I thought my ... first time in 8, I saw myself in my instructors. My professor, TAs, and

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  had to see it again, and bring my family this time. https ... digression: through a stroke of luck, my car rental reservation for a sedan was ... Truck Guy, much to the chagrin of my wife Steph C ’15). [carousel image1

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  hope) aesthetic way. It feels like just following my mind onto a web of ... my drawing skills are very subpar so don't pay too much attention to it ... i felt when my dad sang about a wandering coban (shepherd) to help me

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  well-designed and pretty satisfying. over the course of my first hour of ... the machine), how to time my footsteps more precisely (by relying less ... freeze and a jump[/caption] towards the end of my second ddr session i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  until a few weeks ago, which was when I applied for my first credit card ... months of activity before they started existing. Oops. My grand unified ... feeding yourself, or Roth IRAs. My holey shoes aren't a problem now, but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  The more I try to push it I realize gonna let go of control In my AP ... it, ruffle through my thoughts to find a thread I can tug on, but find ... far into my life because I am doing the scary thing. I am walking away

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  , sitting on my bed typing a blogpost. I've started waking up way too early ever since I got back from my trip home for winter break. It's making me ... impossible. So now, I get to start of my days writing in bed as opposed to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  . filling payroll forms, and talking to hr. signing ndas, calling someone my manager, lunch breaks. the 9 to 5. especially the 9 to 5. my work hours are ... homework, or going on walks or meeting people or going to parties. my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  My first impression of MIT was through Math Prize for Girls, and it ... a weird sense of nostalgia every time I walk past Flour on my way to ... at Math Prize all over again; that Covid might end and my high school

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  being suspended in this void for a few seconds, my legs swaying back and ... onto a lane divider, gasping for breath as chlorine stung the back of my sinuses.   Friday marked my first full month of classes at MIT. Back

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  Whether I like it or not, my senior year at MIT is coming to a close ... trying again and again to write my [annotation note="although i am very ... reflect on my MIT experience, to talk about what was most valuable to me

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  —how have I changed in the last year? I suppose that I'm more confident in my ... nail down. Have I become more independent? How have my values changed ... , though, I find glimpses of my past, and it brings me some clarity. In 2018

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  I’ve been spending most of my writing ability and brain power working ... in the future. That plus my involvement with MIT’s fall planning plus my remote internship have kept me HOSED. Compared to past summers, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  specifically my relationship with one mentor who has grown into more of a sister ... how to balance my time, prioritize my health and wellbeing, study, eat healthy, cook, deal with my kinky hair, try out new flavours of alcohol

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  This is a short appreciation post for fun., one of my favorite bands ... right now. It feels as if my schedule this semester doesn’t have a lot of free time. Objectively, I know this isn’t true; my Mondays and Tuesdays

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  really just me trying to work through my t h o u g h t s --------------- I vividly remember the day I received my SAT scores. The sky was a ... walked around that day, seeing four-digit numbers float above my classmates

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019