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• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  My favorite room is a well-kept secret. I won't reveal the location ... feeling of competence and belonging. This place is my jam. I'm writing from my favorite room right now, in a one hour break between classes: 20

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  gonna lie - i've become a little lazy with my spotify game. i think it ... what i study to nowadays. RIP having good taste in music. my one attempt to maintain my playlist game is to save 'monthly' playlists that i can

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  , the summer before my freshman year. The questions don’t vary much from year to year, though the format has changed slightly since my day. Two ... managed to get my hands on it once again. And, because my favorite thing to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blTWy7zyssg[/embed] My ... content of all of my classes, especially my HASS classes and found myself ... they felt within society and culture. I also got out of my comfort zone a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  On April 16th, 2020, my life changed. That’s a kitschy way to put it ... memorable than usual, because it’s the day my first novel went to auction. It ... had asked everybody to leave campus, so I was at my boyfriend Chris

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  change gonna' come." For the greater part of my blog's existence, many of ... ). Well thanks to one of my favorite prefrosh, the dream is now reality ... awesome for creating my new banner. Not to mention the fact that you are a

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  On the day before my non-senior friends left for home, we went out on ... wonderful way to say goodbye for the summer. Speaking of friends, my best ... later. In January, I fulfilled my blogger-career-long dream of taking

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  Last summer, when I lived in East Campus and these were my backyard    , my hallway looked like this    , this was my bathroom ceiling, and I ... effect on my health. Specifically, I was curious about fat, which I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  maps the Internet could ever want, my first year of post-MIT life flew by ... I could and observing web traffic data as soon as my articles are ... distilling my thoughts over the last 4-5 years. That is, in addition to no

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  now, with a sense of deja vu. Cue the best 6 weeks of my life: MITES ... . Now, the important stuff: When I first got my acceptance to the program ... -reliant person. The idea of packing my things to live alone across the country

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  Well, the moment is finally here. My last first day at (virtual) MIT ... . I could barely see myself passing my GIR classes, let alone see myself make it through to the very end. My mid-lecture anxiety attacks of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  Hi everyone! I’m Callie T, and Ellie invited me to share what my day looks like as a junior studying physics! 11:15 — I ignore my alarm. 11:20 — My second alarm. I ignore this one too. 11:25 — I roll over at this

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  rented my first apartment; I had to find furniture for said apartment; I have to rely on my kitchen for dinner, not a dining hall; I have to wake ... terrifying. For almost five years of my life I had been set on this one path

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• FAQ / First-year application

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• Blog / Admissions

  The Birth Of My Third Child The new admissions web site finally launches! Report any bugs here.

  

  Hi folks, Well here you have it – the new-and-improved MIT admissions web site. I hope you like it! In October (when I get back from fall recruitment travel) we’ll…

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  sore and threw my neck out of whack trying to do this (as the one on the ... textbooks for all my classes. I read three papers from the scientific ... ; Spent 8 hours at the lab. My postdoc wants to get my current project

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How can I explain my special circumstances?

  We understand that everyone has a unique story and that we can’t possibly cover every “what if” in an FAQ section. The MIT application allows plenty of room for you…
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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  Coop, I knew it was my calling. This was the universe telling me to go for it and make my dreams come true. [caption id="attachment_116958 ... 't really my goal. All I wanted was to make somebody on the judges' panel

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025