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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  artists I like, and hoping for the best. So I might try to include a mini ... struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge."]Last week[/annotation] I got back [annotation note="how the process for the ... 've held for so long, than to finally break the inertia and deal with the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  opportunities and has made choices about how to use those opportunities. I won ... Much is expected. I can't tell you how many times I have heard ... might be used. Let me be frank. Any serious applicant to MIT has been

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since ... the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I ... assignment. There was a point where I really didn’t know how to fix what was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  awake for the next 18 hours?” or “Can I spare enough time to go scream ... midterms on three consecutive school days. I have to go study for a 6 ... Logic Unit for a 6.004 lab, after registers and stack pointers and opcodes

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  wants to do that? When I do an info session for prospective students, I ... already know how valuable it can be to learn to write and express yourself ... already know why he isn’t getting to them. He isn’t sure how to start. I

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  seek ways to unlock the secret formula to secure admission. For starters, I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for ... crowd. I know that this is difficult to reconcile for many students (and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  , or, in this blog post, your home for the next four years—it seems to me ... visited Caltech, but I didn't want to pay for or sit through the flight from ... learn the material in your classes, but you will also learn how to manage

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  suicidal when she has never felt that way? How was it possible for anyone to ... asexual people describe. For example, not really wanting to have sex, aside ... anosmia, up until they were asked to describe the scent of a peach for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  ," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all ... why I was accepted." Of the 80-ish responses to the poll question "How ... Pressure." You should take the time to check out all the results, but for

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

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  of pictures of the Stata Center to show how innovative we are. Now, as ... , which means heading to Copytech for 10 minutes a week and as a result getting paid $10 an hour to go to lecture. I taught SAT Prep for ESP, which

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him ... professor to take the time to write to a colleague to tell him how much an ... notice him. And then for Shakespeare to actually send the book…” She

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  it. So, that's all, folks: stay tuned for my next post, on How to Sue ... Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for ... , decide whether or not you'd like to apply here for school). Since applying

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  student? it's no secret that coming to MIT is signing yourself up for ... and family and drop everything if i need to make time for someone. "life ... great to send out warm fuzzy greetings, but i received one question

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure ... good for their admission chances. WARNING: You are about to encounter a ... rigueur activity that everyone needed to do in order to look good for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... much as things to be studied for they work, but rather as elements of a problem that have specific properties for you to minimize and maximize

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was like for me to go on medical leave for mental health reasons. I’ve been ... life spun totally out of my control. And I had no idea how to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  to brainstorm ideas for how to reach that kind of transformation and ... workers who have really provided an alternate model, for not only how to be ... ’s response to Austin. Sofia Campos: “Reaching for our dreams of our

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  how it ever got to the point where I put so much emphasis on a place ... they wanted to be somewhere else. As for me, I love MIT. I really do. I ... , whose first choice when applying to colleges was admittedly NOT MIT, but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006