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• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  I don’t have to do work yet (although this is work; also ... and shouldn’t be used in essays). This post is addressed to all ... your questions later. And if you’re wondering why I didn’t

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  (although there are a few that don't participate). July-August between junior ... don’t claim to be an expert at essay writing by any means, but I mean ... wouldn’t have to keep a daily journal of your life (although that would not

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  probably won't get this unless you've watched her shows), and Jennifer Hu (an ... Engineering Students: 2:00 to 2:08: Dirty, don't wash their hair. 2:30 to 2 ... they say there won't be hot guys around. But again there's the reaction

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  . You can't stop us. I’m fairly convinced that nothing can, except for the ... we couldn't finish it before he left. We made plans for watching the ... differences and work hours, and when he left I didn't know if those plans would

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  with the data Figuring out what rural and small-town means isn’t as ... " as basically everything that isn’t an urban area. Not super helpful ... , these definitions and tools don’t really capture the true essence of what

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  was closed during spring break anyway, so I couldn't eat there even if I ... . I don't remember what I got (it was probably scrambled eggs and a ... away from Simmons, but I didn't know about it until this spring break. I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  ’m learning that there usually isn’t one anyway.  For this reason, it was ... figuring things out--trying to solve both Hungers, really. I realized I didn’t ... transitional period, but couldn’t find the right words. Here’s a few words I did

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  [annotation note="in Toronto specifically… I didn’t research or travel far ... this [annotation note="and here I will also defend myself by saying 'iT w ... shouldn’t have gotten the buffalo tofu one, it was way too oily and the tofu

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  or perceived quality, because: 1) I don’t trust myself to make a ... on some aspect I don’t feel like I understood. 2) I think you only ... narrator doesn’t relay tell you about their psyche, the nature of their

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  that we weren’t smart enough for/didn’t have enough time to cover in 6 ... wouldn't expect to be able to not work, like ethernet cables."]things[/annotation] just don’t work even though Joe or [annotation note="It’s actually quite

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  post. Not exactly the best way to start the semester… But don’t worry ... doctor took one look at me and diagnosed me with [annotation note="This isn’t ... , he didn’t have a ton of information to work with… but I think it

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  , rearranged the two sets of closet/bed/desk, and halfheartedly unpacked t ... along—two is greater than one, right? What I didn’t realize was that, in ... hard I feel like before, I didn’t have to think as consciously about my

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  like. I didn’t visit many colleges outside of my local area in high school, and my parents also didn’t go to college, so I couldn’t ask them ... what to expect. While the information I learned was useful, it couldn’t

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  furniture, we eventually solved our first cube together. Yippee! It wasn’t as ... activities that has stuck with me, like an itch that I just can’t shake ... can’t help myself—they’re just so cute! And above all, it’s fun.  Over

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  the walls"]permanent murals.[/annotation] this isn't to say MIT no ... this year. after renewal, students won't be able to mural directly on the ... , Burton Conner didn't end up with this solution. instead, we got a handful

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  way. The whole experience was so incredible that I still can’t quite ... happened in 2020 if COVID hadn’t appeared and disrupted everything. Thanks to ... ) were superb, and the pineapples in MIT dining halls wouldn’t be as sweet

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  . Things aren't upsetting or exhausting, but exciting. I'm not sure what ... , "Wow, I didn't realize there were so many people here. It's kind of nice ... last year, but didn't really befriend Savoldy until this year. We often

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  campus, taking classes and doing research. How does it feel? I don’t know ... . And sometimes I walk by EC and can’t recognize any of the people sitting ... used to be. (Aren't we all :P) Everything is the same and different, all

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  hadn’t met before.  When I returned to campus on August 23rd, the cycle ... it,[/annotation] and I don’t even have that much of an emotional ... doesn’t sit quite right with me when I refer to my dorm room as “home

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  reflection into three months. I thought about a lot of things I won’t go into ... honestly didn’t expect to love New York as much as I did, even though the ... NYC, like its nightlife and its theater scene, weren’t things that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022