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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  of you who were will know what I’m talking about. The universes within books were my worlds, and the characters within those universes were my ... and spent hours daily daydreaming up new stories for the characters in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  They're not kidding when they say the Swiss are some of the most On-Top-Of-It people in the World.   During the exchange orientation session at ETH, the word Eigenverantwortung popped up during one of

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with great interest. In my role as the Director of Minority Recruitment, I ... complete the race and ethnicity section of the MIT admission application

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  film making is one of the hardest things you can do, even when you ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo9elE7Ij-c One night, in the middle of my time away from MIT, I ... the house, only the three of us remained that night as everyone else

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing in my head...forming the words, stringing them together like jewels on ... discarding and reweaving them until they sparkle and sound just the way I want

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  ... and everything nice! My favorite dish in the whole wide world is ... ’s been my Instagram username for the past 2 years. For the entirety of my freshman year, it was literally the only dish I cooked. I made it 7 times

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel[/annotation]of East Campus. I was coming from the east parallel, where I had been

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  garbage disposal or a shower that gets hot right away, but it’s on the ... Squares, near the Cambridge Public Library.           Winter and sunset both symbolize the end of things, but autumn has always been my favorite

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  we have wacky (modern? postmodern?) buildings, the best river views in ... home after class: (2) Because even the Infinite (Corridor) has an ... Court... (4) ...or take a walk by the boathouse: (5) I'd show you

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  September 2nd The round tables are blue, yellow, and green this year ... the fourth time I’ve sat on the Returning Student Luncheon panel of… the ... life experiences, and we’re here to talk tips and tricks, to tell the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog ... thought it would be pretty cool to do it again -- and by coincidence, the day when I was the free-est to blog was also the second last day of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  which are required of you. Tell us about something you do for the pleasure ... the MIT application, you’ve likely encountered our short answer essay questions, including the one written above. Rather than asking applicants to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  MIT is like, the good and the bad. Give comfort and advice about your applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The reality is that we as bloggers cannot connect with the decision that you may

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  —a time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the place they want to spend their college years. The “weekend” itself starts ... that is good about life as a student. For the visiting senior, there is

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  "tried hard enough", I could perform the most superhuman balancing acts ... think: all the advice in the world couldn't persuade stubborn me to take ... all this, if you fail to learn and change accordingly. So here I am, the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  just curious to see what it's like. And lucky for you, I've got the scoop ... living [annotation note="for the record, whenever i refer to off ... signing leases, knowing your rights as a tenant, navigating the market, and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a reflection on what the blogs meant to us, or a life update since graduating ... . The audience that I used to write for has now graduated from college

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  fire that accurately describe the MIT experience. Ironically people also describe MIT as “drinking from the firehose.” So I guess the water and fire come together to make MIT one epic battle against the elements. I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  will be some light spoilers, so if you want to read the series, now's your chance. (There are five parts in the series; Your Last First Day is the last part. Each part is roughly as long as this blog post

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  . Someone at the [annotation note="Office of Minority Education ... applied to do Interphase EDGE, which is a 2-year enrichment program. The whole thing has a couple of parts: a class component the summer before

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021