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• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  would be a perfect spot, assuming you don't want to use your main essay ... motto means "Mind and Hand." In other words, we don't just want to see ... . Passion, passion, passion. Quality over quantity. You don't have to do a

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  heartbroken, really. Seriously, at that moment, I couldn't imagine anything more ... that I'm looking at this site right now but she didn't say anthing and ... pack up all your stuff and go! I don't think you realize what I'm going

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  don't really have my finger on the pulse of American youth culture (and ... ), so getting a $40 per month cell phone plan isn't as staggeringly costly ... . I couldn't get reception anywhere east of Massachusetts Avenue

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  interviews and essays and extracurricular activities. This doesn't always seem ... /astro. We broke up. He didn't get in. He was devastated. You may see where ... studying vocab words. I didn't even really care what I got on the SAT, since

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  photos, plus Bryan SOAKING WET! One thing Bryan didn't do in his busy ... she wasn't entirely in favor of heading down to the Hatch Shell this ... tEp, a "fraternity" whose website I feel somewhat hesitant about

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  … couldn’t deliver. The day after the exam, I laid in my bed for a while ... performance. When I closed that exam book, my exhaustion-addled brain couldn’t ... of cramming a 7 double major into one or two more semesters isn’t lost

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Honse. Nnnyeeeeeeiiiiiigghhhghhhghhhhhh!!!!! 🐎

  

  those of you who don't know, this is what a pony looks like: [caption id="attachment_113640" align="aligncenter" width="768"] Isn't she majestic ... don't translate well into hot glass – long faces, spindly limbs, and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  Barbie.   ***   “The real world isn’t what I thought it was ... the Barbie’s aren’t around–they merely sit and wait for Barbie to be in ... fundamental necessity to, but because I wouldn’t know who I was if I weren’t

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  haven't even finished unpacking everything yet.) The (in)famous 6 ... ="97231" image2="97232" /] [annotation note="Oh boy I can't wait for those 20-hour

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  're actually in your presence, words unfortunately can't do it justice. But being ... and wouldn't bat an eye. Their kneejerk reaction would be "Of course ... 's why I didn't even react when she told me she would be applying to the

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

  living having the time of my life

  

  hadn’t truly lived until I came to college.   doing stuff So what ... be fun. Not to say grade school wasn’t fun, but I felt like I was ... lunchtime, and a goal to work towards (college), but I didn’t feel like I was

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  classes and south of sixteen. You don’t need to find it. You don’t have to ... justifications: that I can’t write consistently at MIT anyway so why not do ... cool classes, HASS classes aren’t that much work, et cetera.  I’d also

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  lime-colored. I couldn’t decide if I loved or hated them."](550, in 5East ... wouldn’t have to deal with the moving carts for a while (if only because ... wasn’t the most effective method of transit, but it was fun! This sort of

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  personal expression and craft? people often say you can’t/shouldn’t try to ... out of your control, so it doesn’t make sense to put too much weight on ... reading content i write, and i wasn’t sure how much i cared about actively

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  , and sometimes it helps me get to cool places that I didn’t really know ... , and in reality I should probably just: Which is not to say that I can’t escape this box of gloom by doing a lot of work. I probably can’t, because

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  ," I said. "I hadn't even turned eighteen, at the time. I was talking to ... years, every four years. And I haven't even experienced eighteen years ... depressive symptoms haven't come up for months now, I said. I'm genuinely

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  true that is anymore. I think, in a vacuum, I love physics. But I don’t ... something that isn’t really important to me at the moment. Course 18C seems to ... were difficult, but it mattered also that I couldn't find the time to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  with insecurity all over again. I wouldn't call it imposter syndrome ... 're the stupidest one there? MIT doesn't have ranks for this exact reason ... disappointments: I'm disappointed I wasn't smart enough to finish it, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  .’ But I wasn’t that brave. I was lucky to find that one of the reputable ... joked, “I don’t want constructive criticism right now, Mum.” “It’s a good ... fairness, the thought was about DHTs, so I wouldn’t have understood it anyway

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  future and my childhood and just a whole slew of things that i can't really ... leave it and say that i really enjoy the story and don't really care about ... LOT. like a LOT. i didn't speak to anyone for three days after i read

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021