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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  Shooting for Top Gun: Aiming to Arm Students with Life Skills for College and ...        “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it's still an improvement.” “And what

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  enough cookies for every member of the MIT community to have one—undergrads and grad students alike! It is enough for every EC resident to eat over ... cookies than East Campus had room for... so we brought them around to places

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It ... received a notification. We sprinted together down the hallway to 10 ... -empty tubs back to their dorms to share with friends. [caption id

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  * * * ME: hi i'm allan ME: how's it going FROSH: cool ME: cool ME: have i ... : you should come to auditions ME: no experience required ME: we ... MINNESOTA: what high school did you go to FRIEND FROM MINNESOTA: do you know

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

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  ever been before. Coming to terms with the fact that this would be my reality for three whole months, I thought to myself: What on Earth am I doing here? That was two years ago. In retrospect, that was just how I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  to take, since my schedule for senior year is already so packed ... most beautiful places to visit in England for a reason! The charming town ... school term. At Cambridge, it’s extremely rare for undergraduates to

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  they’re rocks on a riverbed. The memory of my dad teaching me how to ... I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like ... sent out a survey to the bloggers, asking them what their results were for all those personality tests! None of this, the tests themselves nor

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  , so ready for CPW, because I didn’t get to go to CPW when I got admitted ... format for a haiku. Most of its poems are 2 to 5 lines long, and each line ... one wish i would wish for the haiku bot to reincarnate myself with haiku

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  convenient for those living in [annotation note='now referring to the dorm ... available, and it’s harder for me to make excuses to not go. At night, when ... ’ll continue using the dorm gym with some visits to the Z/Wang for specialty

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  for someone. there is enough positive work for you to do until you find ... to sit my butt down on her linoleum floor for a few hours to help her ... surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  basic proofreading to three figures for a full-blown rewrite - the irony ... ." That's all we're really looking for. To clarify, I'm not ... 's nice to have someone say "don't take for granted that

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  carry boxes to fighting for our friends who weren’t being granted ... together in an unprecedented way to be there for one another, to take care of ... level used their platforms to advocate for others and to make sure as many

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with ... to catch up on work became a weekend of shambling around grasping for ... . That same Monday was my next exam for 6.005 so I didn't have time to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  (sounds so official, right?). I made the decision to apply for the Rhodes ... applicant for a while, I was called into the room and led to the head of a ... to chill for a few hours until the call-backs. To distract myself, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to ... 've known, because I'm staying for another year to finish my Master's degree (through the MEng/VI-A programs). Since I am going to around for another

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... supposed to have an Educational Counselor interview for another college. I ... " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... is the only path to success, which is a topic for another post.) I ... well as for those of you who do not. I challenge you to bring your plans

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in love. I came to MIT for the people here. I've had wonderful experiences

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably ... your journey. To all of you, thank you for trusting us with your ... , in order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019