An Open Letter to MIT Applicants
Today on social media, I was greeted with an article about how one student chose to become part of MIT’s class of 2018. While I have nothing against major news platforms and don’t want to belittle...
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The Late-Night Juggler
Note: The following is adapted from an article I wrote for CMS.350, or 21st-Century Journalism. Walking around MIT means running into awesome people like Smyly, and I figured you might want to hear...
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Finding Time
So I've been in classes here for, as of yesterday, one whole month. Time goes by pretty fast. Really, really fast. When I came here I was super worried about adjusting to classes and being able to...
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Fall Festival 2014
Today was apparently the MIT Undergraduate Association's Fall Festival. I was unaware of this until I happened upon a food truck giving out large containers of 'gourmet' fries outside Kresge this...
View ArticleDear Applicant
Dear Applicant to the Class of 2019, The long awaited season of college applications has arrived. Congratulations! You made it. You worked hard for eleven years, and even more so for the past three....
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When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT
I GOT CAT I GOT CAT I GOT CAT I GOT CAT I GOT CAT I GOT CAT This past weekend, I rushed my mom and sister to come visit me at MIT because I was feeling particularly stressed out and at a loss for how...
View ArticleSo Chance Me Maybe?
Like most MIT students, I was aware when I applied that I was a highly competitive applicant. I had taken several AP classes, I had a perfect GPA, my interviewer loved me, I had founded a few clubs,...
View ArticleMy new job @ admissions
I was rewriting my profile this morning - the first substantive update in five years - to reflect my new role and responsibilities in the office when I suddenly realized that I hadn't actually blogged...
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MIT Mini Maker Faire
Last Saturday was the first ever MIT Mini Maker Faire, and (at least according to MIT News) it was a huge success! My photography skills are less of a success, but I gave it a shot. There have been...
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I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus
Hello Internet! I had a very writing major day, which is to say that I spent this morning sitting in 1369 Coffee on Mass Ave writing new scenes for ThesisNovel before I sent the first fifth of it off...
View ArticleTalking to Strangers
“Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording—all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a...
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Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore
Friday night I slept for 10 hours and 8 glorious minutes. If you subtract the 4 minutes I spent staring at the squiggly darkness inside of my eyelids before I drifted off, it was actually only 10...
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i saw you
i absolutely love the blogs, but there are a number of other places to vicariously ride the ups and downs of MIT. they can't tell you if you'll get into MIT, they don't have any formal advice about...
View ArticleHow do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?
Sometimes I get so engaged by a project that I forget to eat. Yesterday, I woke up at 7:35am. Starving, I got a sandwich to-go at the Student Center and then trudged off to the basement of Building...
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Below 48
MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer to the approximate number of hours that class needs of...
View ArticleFor Those Weeks When You Just Cannot
We all have those weeks. Some sort of tragedy happens - a death in the family, the death of a friend, the sadness of a friend, an angry anonymous email, the hospitalization of a friend or cat - these...
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Sexy MIT Engineers
Freshman fall I decided to join a sport. I had never played sports in my life. My family wasn’t at all “sportsy or outdoorsy”. But on a whim, I emailed the women's ultimate frisbee team and showed up...
View ArticleInterview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor
I was an interviewer myself for many years before leading the Educational Council but think it would be helpful for you to hear some advice from a current interviewer named Nikki Springer. Here are...
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The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!)
This week was a four-day week, which made it extremely weird. It seemed to be a consensus among a bunch of people I talked to that this was a bummer week, and my days were punctuated with a lot of...
View ArticleQuestBridge 2014 FAQ
This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the QuestBridge National College Match. If you don’t know what this is, don’t worry! If you are a finalist – congratulations! We’re excited to have...
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