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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  opposite me, resting on his elbow and playing Words With Friends. He ... write a blog post, but was struggling with writer's block (it's easier to ... ." There are a bunch of different things I could (should) touch on. Why

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  ’m ultimately glad that we’re moving on to other places. I visited my high school ... since we’ve talked. Our group chat of nerd friends eventually fell quiet ... has a giant banner in the lobby with a collection of trophies on a table

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  As a news editor for The Tech, every couple weeks, I have the ... draft of the article of the night – on McCormick transfers – is finished ... respond, “When's the earliest you can get it to me?" Ultimately, we agree on

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  ="Someone in the live Youtube chat asked if Paolo embezzled $1. He did not. We ... ).  One of the first pages on our website, the FAQs page, helped us find our ... also started designing live "Audience Contests" to help us engage with

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  dedicated course to Electrochemistry exists today; based on the content, it ... requiring first-years to live on-campus. There's mention of the Women ... catalog online. It consists of an overview of MIT, some notes on campus life

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  Cube’s small size also helps prevent technology reuse on spysats, because it’s a ... exploration and astronomy missions that help us understand the climate and ... climate change on Earth both help scientists understand atmospheric dynamics

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost ... exploring our identities and our sexualities and our fashion sensibilities and ... . whenever i hear variations on the theme of “i was torn into a million pieces

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  . When you're living on a college campus with 400 things going on every ... something to have good perspective, rely on your friends to help you. Eat ... 'll begin focusing on the future class of 2011. I hope that you guys won't be

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  't even know if I would be headed off to med school today. On a somewhat ... lady next to you to help you zip up your sweater on the T and she ... thousand miles away from my parents and any help they could try to impose on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  provide advice on your classes and help you develop a recovery plan, room 7 ... loops on a highway of rainbows. There is no way to uniformly describe how ... - you'll have to figure out what works for you. (helpful hint: you no

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  out on Netflix, and everyone on Twitter and other various group chats ... "]value[/annotation] which is especially helpful when trying to accurately recreate still lives ... ? Binging Avatar video essays and calling people to rant about Avatar. On one

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  significant gap between life as lived at MIT and life as represented on the ... , right here on the blogs. Living our socially ordinary and sometimes serendipitously extraordinary Secret Queer lives. We can’t all come out publicly on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... face after a comedy show, tacos upon tacos after a night out on 6th ... ’s always fire, so trust me on this one."]tuna[/annotation], all [annotation

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  because they’re romantic. We can’t help but wonder how different our lives ... new itinerary leaving on Saturday morning, and I had to spend Friday ... of course they came through. I take the T to Kendall, and sitting on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  , in Bayside and Little Neck (Slims, on Horace Harding near Springfield ... , what flies over the bay?" - which I discovered today, before visiting Cardozo, is sadly no longer on the awning.) Educational Counselors (ECs

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  the longer you live in and contribute to the dorm. Go on a citrusy ... Hello MIT blogs! I love blogging. I applied to be a blogger on whim ... still seems to be around from the batch that got selected with me on that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  feel low on self-confidence. I'm glad that I learned by the end of Year 1 ... wish I'd thought of every class block as a precious commodity. I have two ... "make sure I had a solid foundation" before moving on. It's obvious to me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  remembered helping my (sorority) little (sister) on a project she needed to ... to sit my butt down on her linoleum floor for a few hours to help her ... on my plate. today, i don't even remember what else i had to do. i

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  right?? FROSH: what hall do you live on? ME: 5th west FROSH: oh i don ... FROSH: where do you live? ME: east campus! i love it a lot, actually ... mean the roller coaster's pretty cool FROSH: but i would never live

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  when I left for college, which had been laying on a shelf since August ... two hours on the first problem of the now three accumulated p-sets I ... there. I feel like I passed the person I should have been on the street

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014