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• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  “Help!” by the Beatles. Relevant verse reproduced at the bottom, for your ... …and which lay the smackdown on my morale for a couple of months. I couldn ... steeling myself for the next paper. This was a fluke. I had been careless

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  I hope you (and the powers above) will forgive me for blogging about ... embarking again on a cruise to the Carribbean next week). I go home for dinner ... much. They think it makes everything cuter. For example, kawaii-ne~ Um

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  grandma's house when my parents asked a completely unreasonable question for ... great school for math, one of the best." "Ok, I'll go there." *laughter ... of my head for the next 4 years, slowly growing into more than just a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  or two digits. For example, "Course VI" (which is the only one written ... jargon) is MIT for "Electrical Engineering and Computer Science." Below are all of the names and numbers for your convenience. As a funny side note

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  academic resources for its members. Additionally, sororities provide ... sisters in an informal setting. This is useful for underclassmen who are to ... addition to providing opportunities for sisters to go out into the community

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  Hello everyone, prospectives for the coming years and prefrosh alike ... Jones waiting at the table for me... and any other prefrosh. No matter, I ... , check Friday Liveblog), I knew that MIT was the place for me. Now to

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  coming back here for Lent term than I was when coming here in September. I ... and on, all for about $10-$20. This year, not as many bands come into ... bridge and being in Boston. Also, it's so expensive to pay for a concert

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  time for packing or doing dishes or eating or...well, lots of things ... working with it again- it's one of those things I like to do for ... to say. And it's still in the running for actually becoming my major

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  Hello friends! News updates: IAP is over! This is sad for most people, but happy for me, because I'll actually be attending FEWER hours of ... such useful tips as do's and don'ts for a first date. She also had plenty

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  much more grounded in facticity, but for every dashed bit of romanticism ... 's easier for us to notice this in other people + people are more open in some ... than people from other schools. smart technically passionate respect for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  no real way, however, for me to talk you through exactly how difficult ... personal life, and I can't really do that for a whole host of reasons. So, I ... field, which I would use to combine 18 and 21W. This was the plan for two

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  'll explain the reasoning for these rankings below in my four-year class roadmap ... community for students with an interest in the blend of STEM and humanities ... college sports for the first time, had just joined my sorority, and was

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  ??? Should I be posting words when I have to actually be writing words for my ... westward, some for grad school and some for work. Andrea M. ‘18 and I got an ... [annotation note="For a year, we lived a 4.5 minute bike ride away from each

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  you in Europe?!” I rode the high of my “European” adventure for a few ... that could give James Charles a run for his money. When [annotation note ... . Students have some choice for their final two years of mandatory education

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  recommend it i should also mention that there are other means for commuting ... ground when you take a step. not just for the purposes of walking faster ... while running, and that prevented me from walking normally for two weeks

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  stayed in drafts. However, I thought it was still relevant, both for those ... for those of you still patiently on the wait list, as she once was ... university known for its fucking agricultural school!” — i FELT that. with my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  's relatively well known that, in addition to MIT's fervent love for STEM and ... residents"]i3 videos[/annotation], I finally settled on my future home for ... spiraled through all the possible dorm options for me, excluding one: Random

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  , because for 9th and 10th grade, we were in the music program of the arts high school we went to, and for 11th and 12th grade, we transferred to a ... the arts here*. For the artsy admits, who are questioning if/how they

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  Goofy Challenge at Walt Disney World.  For those unaquainted, the Disney ... order to register for the Dopey Challenge you have to prove that you're even remotely qualified, which means submitting a "proof of time" for a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  shoes and vowed "never again." 2) For some reason, I have been wanting to climb Mt. Fuji for the past few months, maybe because I don't know when I ... the way up, but not for a particular reason any more palpable than the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009