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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  points for anyone who can tell me where I got the phrase). We all see the world with the same eyes. Mine work just like yours do. My sun is yellow ... approach the world with different experiences and preconceptions. Those

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  high school but now, reading between the lines, I cherish the good times ... wrote. Disclaimer: this is not admissions advice per se but maybe the way I approached the prompts and my writing will be useful fodder for your

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  Day 0: The Wind-Up Stop me if you’ve heard this one before—“when I ... for me.” At this point in the blog, I would be stopping myself, because ... , however, the important thing to note is that for the past two years, I have

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  Tube advice videos or romanticized audiobooks or way too many of the MIT ... via the endless stream of short-form videos spoonfed to me by various ... study sessions, late night conversations... the list goes on. But now I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  i. my first extended stay in the san francisco (henceforth abbreviated as sf) bay area was last spring, when i lived in the city, specifically in the nob hill district near downtown. i didn’t know much about sf

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  profile. i peer over at his phone, and indeed, the guy is quite shirtless. it's tuesday the 24th and we're waiting outside a house in mid ... neighborhood, and the sun is starting to set, casting a golden glow over the well

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  spoilers for the book siddhartha   i. at the beginning of my ... , the professor asked the class if we knew what the hegelian dialectic was ... the relationship between masters and slaves; someone else said it was

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  , we wrote regarding changes to the AP exams. Since then, we have received questions from adMITs about whether the terms of their admissions offer require them to take all the AP exams they had planned. The short

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  for work, and made dinner with my roommates almost daily. I burnt the tips of my fingers soldering, sliced the tip of another with a box cutter ... with the term, fabrication is Engineering Speak for making things. It

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 2 just another excuse for me to talk about how much i love music tracking software

  

  new music tracking software to complement my spotify experience. in the spirit of last year's post, i'll start this one off with a list of all the ... this my galaxy brain playlist. it contains all the songs that have

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  (This is the second half of the Art of East Campus series. The first part can be found here!) My first and lasting impression of the standard ... though I had prowled the East Campus website extensively and seen pictures

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  You asked for it[citation needed], and so here it is. After the list of classes I gave in my last post, we're left with the question ... existentialist crisis at the end of sophomore year, when I realized that I hadn'

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  I can’t believe it’s been a year since I first delved into the MIT ... three days felt like the longest three days of my life. My total sleep count over that weekend was in the single digits and I still remember a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  I remember the first time I went to a market in my hometown. It was on one of those rare cold days, with icy sheets of rain washing the ... navigated the labyrinthine marketplace with the ease familiarity bestows on

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  . *Inhale* I DECLARED MY MAJOR! I can’t believe it. After all the deliberation, all the conversations and requests for advice and frustration and ... major by the end of their freshman year. If you're really, really unsure

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  checking out the most beautiful girl in the lab (see below). ....just kidding. My research deals with the characterization of a novel gene in the aging pathway of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (a roundworm that is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  In yesterday's entry, I wrote, "With 5 days [now 4 days] until the ... five questions: On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest and 1 being the lowest... How happy are students? How stressed out do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  I don't want the summer to end. I don't want to pack the rice cooker ... the summer to end. I want to move to Floorpi and sleep in my new room with the nice gray couch. I want to put posters without worrying about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  write some notes for the people that have made my MIT experience ... CPW. And that I made the decision to walk up to Bryan despite not having seen him since the fifth grade. And that you took the initiative in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  I am coming to you live from the coveted Boston Logan International ... -out and needing to be at the airport. I could push my 4 bags around the ... , or suck it up and spend like 7 hours at the airport. I opted for the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025