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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  . In the past three years, I’ve visited over 10 cities and lived in three ... , Tucson drives, and Boston, among other things, rides the metro. I grew up ... " align="alignright" width="300"] this is the bike lane! It is very wide

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  My first year was a little rough. I could've written more about the ... didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new ... attainable (it wasn't), then that was the goal. If landing a big

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  lot of pretty strong memories over the years. Throughout elementary ... seeing the way that this person took the heat for their weight made me ... and headstrong as this person was reduced to merely their number on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  coming so quickly. we've been planning for rush since the spring, of course, but right now it feels so close. east campus always builds things in the ... build lead involves more than that oops. thank goodness the other build

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write about my relationship with poetry over the years. Here’s the earliest ... from the smell of newly cut grass Tangy, sweet, like a fresh Saturday

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  Between the fall and spring semesters at MIT there is a period spanning the month of January called the Independent Activities Period, or ... without knowing what day of the week it is, you can spend all your time

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  college, you can write whatever the heck you want." -The same wise person (READ: PLEASE DO NOT ACTUALLY WRITE LIKE THIS) Q1. Describe the world you ... , that's a lot of capitalized words. During the four years I spent at MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  entered the MIT admissions office for the first time during [annotation note ... , I was ushered into a room with the other Sin Limite attendees. I had arrived a bit late, and it seemed like everyone in the room [annotation note

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  though the class was three months long, the only thing I can remember was the frustration of attempting engineering drawings. We would draw boxes ... measurements to my drawings, squinting and counting the lines on the ruler

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  , inspiration strikes and fast   and it feels like the blog manifests itself through me as if it, itself, wants to get out into the world and I am simply only a vessel   and the worst part is, it happens all

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  on the blogs. This semester I took 3 [annotation note="Humanities, Arts ... ="Spanish IV"]21G.704.[/annotation] One of the benefits of this is that I had no finals for these classes. The unfortunate drawback was that I then had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  Around this time of the year, we're always told to write something ... the people with more nuance and who could write better than I ever could ... time and sometimes there are not enough words in the world to comfort

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  here's the thing: most of my MIT friends are currently in the ... to meet up with all of them since I'm hosed all the time. given current ... friends in the halls, at Stud, or as I'm hurrying down Dorm Row to class. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  happening back in the Philippines. Here, it’s ever present: news of gruesome ... should care because the situation fucking sucks. And I should care, because when the police bring conflict into peaceful protests, I should be angry

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT launches AI Education website I worked on this cool thing for my UROP!

  

  some frequent readers of the blogs might know, I have a UROP at the Media ... the Admissions blogs and collaborated on a very official and detailed blog post about the project launch. You can check it out on Medium as

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 6, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  We're big fans of Spotify here on the blogs and have been for awhile. You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud ... about how much much she loves Spotify; and Abby's post about the blogger

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  years together, and they were three of the most formative years of my life ... indestructible, and according to the Internet a solid development machine. It had ... offer. It was with me the first time I went abroad and has been to as many

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  . It is the first installment of the Guide to MIT (coming next: residential system), inspired by the recent comMITment of the Class of 2022—WELCOME PREFROSH!!! The sections of this post are: 1. Degree Requirements

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  (especially as they appear in the Tumblr studyblr community). I had long ago lodged “MBTI” (the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) into a closet in my head ... friends who all told me that over the summer they’d been going through

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  We've gotten some questions about our essay prompts for the ... (maybe the most underappreciated thing a good college applicant can do is ... application, with 5 short-answer essay questions (I've blogged about the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017