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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  undergrad, your social culture, in my observation, depends largely on two ... typical date between students at my high school or middle school was like, I ... representations of teen life. So my concept of what a first date between two young

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  setting my alarm for 9:30, blinking and realizing I slept for another hour ... my evening learning about No Child Left Behind (for a public policy ... chatting with my next-door neighbor (a senior) about his second-round job

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  pre-blog entry paragraph dripping with bitter disdain. So, my apologies ... EST To: [email protected] I FIXED MY HARD-DRIVE!!!11one -Patrick ... just "I'm Irish because my grand^50 great aunt stopped over there once

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? One of the sister cities of Hiroshima, Japan is my ... supporting my conclusion, and she told me that Joyce Carol Oates called that ... , Anthony. But back to my other story. The dreadlocked Kendall '07 lives in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  , my last few days at MIT were a blur- I had 3 exams and lots of stuff to ... the credit, will I feel out of my league if I do, etc. All this is ... .01 is going to make my life difficult when I start taking classes in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  My weekend It's been a somewhat busy two not-school days. Yesterday ... conditioners for the new apartment. Now ask me how much I've studied for my ... of my friends from home are graduating college with about a zillion

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  still haven't started my third pset that's due tomorrow." Faux-sympathetic acknowledgment: "Yeah... I just finished my fourth pset of the week and have to ... project I've got due at the end of the week. My group hasn't even met yet

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  Thursday night was, well, interesting. I was working on my lab for 6 ... . My TA had suggested that we budget nine hours for it. Ha. Hahaha. She ... taking this class when I'm not even course 6, feeling my attempt to prove

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  evaluated in context. "In my country (Kenya) students who sat for the ... send it to you?" Absolutely! "Are admission interviews available in my ... in your MyMIT account) then it is likely that we don't have an

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  Some parents wrote to me and asked me to contribute my opinions to a ... . Obviously my response is directed to parents, but I thought it was important enough to post it here as well: As with most of my posts in the parents

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  don't really have my finger on the pulse of American youth culture (and I'm not premed anyway), but my experience was that in high school, a ... week of orientation, I had to get out my cell phone all the time to give

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  people - and our correspondence has been the highlight of my experience ... physically. I threw a party on the Saturday following CPW, which most of my ... whole coincidence just seemed fitting. * * * My boss (Lorelle) is

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  I've written in the past about my love for Disneyland. Growing up a ... the parks and have a lot of fond memories there from my childhood. I went to Disney World with my dad's side of the family around the age of 3

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  just learned that my AP Calculus AB grade for my first semester is not a B+, but a C+. My teacher hadn't properly input my final exam score ... interview, but I think I've just ruined my chances. I truly empathize with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  network that’s frighteningly good at writing, on my old blog posts. And then ... . In fact, I had to look at my blog posts to check that I’ve never ...  attack. It picked up on my bad procrastination habits too. I can't say I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  My [annotation note="Global Teaching Labs, a program where students ... patriotic the whole school was. Before starting GTL, my vision of private ... really retain information long-term. The week after that was when my

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  and tightly wound up in my thoughts. this blog overwhelmed me because i ... eventually dusted off my blog draft document and got to it. i hope you enjoy ... packing my bags, begrudgingly all-nightered to get all my items stored away

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  is unfortunate since I just came back from my second and final one ... respectful"]San Juan, Puerto Rico[/annotation] with 11 out of 13 of my living ... though I wish I had more opportunities to travel with my closest friends, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  to interpret my own art too much. What are the logistics behind this ... show, and then I curated this show, my own show, which was actually part ... constantly be making things, and after a while I just had too many things in my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  want to also talk a little about my experience being Course 18 and how it has differed from my experience doing math in high school. Basics ... have also taken very few of those. My perspective is that of someone who

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017