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• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  discovered CollegeConfidential.com and began showing me people’s ridiculous ... there’s mail.) (Do you remember, mom?) So, thousands of people could log ... self-doubt. In hindsight, it’s easy to recognize that they spoke out of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  . It’s an uncontrollable reflex, I swear! Anyway, this whole concept of ... months has had me missing the security of home a bit, though. (Let’s ignore the part where it’s currently 77 degrees in South Florida, while here it’s

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  vestiges of 1900s industrial Cambridge. The image is vivid: a placid fall ... , softening. Maybe it’s because I grew up in the suburbs, but I’ve always felt ... event, and I don’t need notifications to remember what’s going on in my

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  by Fatema’s older brother Sayeed, also an MIT alum"]my friend Fatema ... thought about how the ability works beneath the hood. I mean, it’s just ... , let’s talk about how the game handles rotations… or rather, how I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  It’s finally here – the grand finale of the Fredventure! Read part 1 ... conductor who wasn’t on the trip with us) on the phone to help calm Fred’s ... by [annotation note="Well, mostly just Fred, but what’s the difference

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  windows, pulling on a man’s green smock and floppy leather gloves. You ... system drowns out all other sound. You turn on the welder -- it’s a TIG ... it keeps returning. When soldering, nothing will burn unless it’s

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  – it’s 8 pm, and you’ve been blowing glass for four hours straight. You ... not because it’s the forbidden food of the gods but because it’s heated ... then proceeded to lecture me about “lab safety” and “that’s not how human

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  From my journal the other night-- It’s 2 am, and I should be asleep ... never find my way back. Life is so much easier when there’s nothing that ... . It’s beautiful outside now. I keep thinking I’ll blog, about work or

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  worth it, especially as it’s my first embroidery project. My initial goal ... again. The tulle was so thin and flimsy. It’s width was smaller than the ... small and detailed painting is kinda challenging. There’s a lot of room

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  It’s almost the end of 2020, which is terrifying. And hopeful, of ... the same time, in some ways it’s too easy to for me to feel like the ... gotten this, though, to spend so much time in Russia in general. It’s

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  Hello! I’m Theo, one of CJ’s unfortunate friends from our dorm (I’m kidding, mostly). Let’s answer the top five questions people ask me when I ... since they’re like, two out of the top three declared courses"]Course 6s

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  family friends gushed over their favorite actors or this year’s Oscar ... Germany, Italy, France, and China thrown in. It’s really fascinating to ... Danny and Allan, Natasha, and Anna in the blogs before, and it’s just as

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  , accented by sightseeing of seven of the city’s “secrets” from an Argentinian ... semester’s upcoming schedule). It was one flaw of my packed technical ... the U.S. I talked to several students, who told me that they would

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  ! First, we headed over to the U.S.S. Constitution. The U.S.S ... the 1790s in Boston’s North End, and to this day is still an active ... monument has been on my bucket list for a while. It’s 294 stairs to the top

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  Cookie to top it off. Yum. College is when they stuff you in a chef’s apron and tell you it’s time you learn to make your own lunch. You’ll always have someone to advise you, because let’s be real, if they just left

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  : An informative diagram that I doodled Here’s a list of all the books I ... !! should!!! read!!! this book!!! Everyone!! Check it out now!!!!!! iT’s ... Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (nf) (this is ridiculous as it’s very short and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  Examkrackers MCAT books and various online practice exams. There’s not really ... , the concept of IAP is pretty amazing. It’s an entire month of freedom ... books and movies. 98% of Krystal’s who were polled would recommend this

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  people would probably say that it’s unhealthy because you end up depriving ... that I am entirely sure what that does to your body other than that it’s ... other people’s idea of it, or I guess with some inevitable influence, but

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  This summer we (Matt, Kris, Chris, the ‘15s, and I), after a rigorous ... . ‘18’s mind palace is his living room floor. He plays by his own rules ... 6’s mandatory soft-skills class. I’m still growing (which has come

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  to decide and no one can tell you otherwise.  Anyways, it’s great to ... accepted to MIT.  It’s more than just motivation.  It’s conviction.  My mom ... Anioke) to make a Lego robot.  Behold Wall-E’s ancestor!! After FPOP

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013