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• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  like that. And since I’ve gotten absolutely nothing done today, instead ... sitting so I can feel like I didn’t just waste my entire day.   Some ... similar pattern repeated for the past three days. I realize that my current

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  Time flies. Today is August 6th, 2020. It's been 143 days since I had to leave MIT. I spent around 190 days at MIT. 185 of those days ... days. ....... Time flies. [caption id="attachment_55389" align

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  So, today is the day! CPW has finally arrived! As many of you make ... classes or read about on the internet. It was a ton of fun. The second day ... to this day and summer roommate Uriel. He, like me, was into going to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  which is later today, but instead I'm blogging. [insert pass/no record ... classes that day. We took a bus two miles in the wrong direction. It started ... a lot that day. We're about halfway through Shakespeare's sonnets and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  It's pre-finals week. Today is the last day of classes. Projects are ... until the day is over. For me, laughter is the best therapy (fortunately ... made me laugh over the past few days. Brace yourself for insight into my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  My family is here! Yesterday and today, my parents and my little ... ! *        *        * Dear Prefrosh, In a few days, over a thousand of you will descend on MIT ... to make heartbreaking decisions. How to spend four days? For some

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  I love the weather today. I rode my bike home through puddles and ... Washington, and I'm from the valley in Oregon, so we feel the same way on days ... downright dreary, we feel right at home. In eleven days, we will be home. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  today will be a day worth blogging about, even if I don't end up blogging ... mean 'since I became an admissions blogger'. To this day, I maintain that ... Institvte. It's been a long three days. I don't really care how space

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  application season approaches. I hope to post it some day soon. That day is not this day. Today I am just going to rip a post from Ta-Nehisi Coates - an ... mine more exhausted than when I embarked. So I've spent most of the day

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  hippies. She had spent several days showing him and a few others around ... to a boston day in the spring, one of those rare ones with the power to ... those days I've open my windows wide, picked out an outfit with a smile on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  for nurturing a serious long-lasting relationship; perhaps one day soon I'll find out. Wednesday was a beautiful sunny day at Harvard ... -deprived. Thanks to poor time management the previous days, I spent most of the rest

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  inform and stimulate conversation relevant to the day’s assigned reading ... , but thankfully, she didn’t elaborate. ;) Today is our first ... four-day weekend, the Institute makes sure we get one. Because I already

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  , why would you not go? If you haven't yet read either of Andi '25's ... day of MARC. While Hans took a nap and I wandered around the basement ... class (6.254). We quickly became friends from talking throughout the day

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  disappear within a day and made my way to class. Unfortunately, the pain did ... days?” But because of my habit, I could take the entire week off and ... , I got to go to a professor’s house for a research group party the day

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

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  days before the paper was due, resulting in a record-setting twenty ... wrapping up a group final project in one class and a "quiz" worth 25% of our grade in another—my break started on December 14th, a week and a day

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  you when it’s safe again.” i love the ec house team. our move out day ... discussing it with them. i finished violet evergarden three days ago. i ... make it to round 3, and the top 25 make it to the finals. while making

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  !) So what is a poetry slam, anyway? It's a 25 year old movement of spoken ... from Zimbabwe, in the first three days that I met him in person. In fact ... 's an avid drummer and dancer, with whom I hope to one day build a drum

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  wanted the answer to, is "do I have enough energy to go to tea time today?", or "do I have enough energy to work on my resume today?", or "do I have enough energy to go to class today?" Recently, the answers to these

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

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

  

  accommodating as we can under these conditions. In recent days, we have received ... students Today, MIT's COVID response team announced that, in light of current ... partner programs. Our day visit team is working to rapidly develop

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  about for a few days wondering what to do. Wednesday night, I told my ... find a song to sing. After subjecting the two of us to ~30 minutes of my ... 8:30, I went through a major attitude check. I was being a wimp. What

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011