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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  6.046 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms) and I have an interesting relationship this semester, one that’s partly tortured, and partly beautifully soul-consuming. Still, on October 10 at 6pm, I can…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 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!…

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  Not every writer is an artist. Not every piece of writing is a work of art. I realized this last year as a high school senior when I was frantically…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  I checked my Timehop today and saw a tweet about how I was stressed about college essays. It’s interesting how life changes. A year ago, college applications were at the…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  PSA: This is a really cool guest post by my friend Katherine W. ’17 who is course 20 like me and has aspirations of owning two Australian Shepherds at some…

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my day in pictures

  

  9:41 am: in lab   5:51 pm: in lab again…   7:44 pm: …still in lab       it’s been one of those days. we have a lab assignment…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  There is this class I’m taking called 18.100B (Real Analysis) which I can’t tell if I love or hate. I’ll be working on the problem sets and thinking like, “man,…

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Hi 2021 Applicants! It’s been two weeks since my first post addressed to you. It’s a long weekend and thus an excuse to pretend that I don’t have to do…

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

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  A lot of people living in the United States don’t understand how complicated water is. I created this post as a sort of quick-guide to water, and the complexity of…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  Being a college student in a dorm means finally having to decide how and what you want to eat for the next 4+ years. For some, it’s as simple as…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  Meet Dennis Hopper. That was a portrait taken of him by Charles Giuliano, published in 2007. I first saw Dennis in a pile of four art pieces that had been…

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  I do not own any fall clothes. It seems that this is going to be a problem for me. I Iive in a triple. One of my roommates, Claire, is…

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  Maseeh Hall has been my home here at MIT for the last four years, including this year, my final one at this esteemed institute. Not only have I lived in…

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

    Let’s review a concept taught in the lowest levels of classical physics. You have an object and you move it. The length of the path you move it along…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  The other day I was talking to someone new, and he asked me what year I was. I said junior, and he said, “ah, yeah, that’s usually when people start…

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  warning: the post below is probably the cheesiest thing i have ever written. it is highly unedited and makes me feel both embarrassed and proud. i usually like to sculpt…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  Hello friends, As you can guess from the title of this post I am sick. What a joy it has been to experience illness during the first two full weeks…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  Hi, Whew, it’s been a long week! But I was thinking today about this time during my senior year of high school and that was really… (in)tense. I haven’t experienced…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  It’s 3am and I should probably be studying for my first 8.01 exam which is later today, but instead I’m blogging. [insert pass/no record joke here] Term is in full…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  You know you’re in a sad place when you’re so desperate to procrastinate an assignment that you organize your life, clean your room, get a job, exercise, drink 8 cups…

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016