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• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  commonly shared feeling among a lot of the students here at MIT, and maybe ... the page that really resonated with me. I felt it a little bit when I ... time that I've been here at MIT. And change, of course, isn't bad. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  my alarm goes off at 8am, and i turn it off in probably enough ... mine, smiled, then looked at me with a serious face and said simply ... like aikawa-sensei can."]late to class[/annotation] at this [annotation

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  at night, so bring a jacket, preferably with a hood. Rain boots or some ... shower and stuff at some point. Sleeping stuff. Again, this is something ... bring: Homework. If at all possible (i.e. if you don’t have The Most

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  I'm writing this blog post sitting on my bed in my room at home in ... , despite the worry and uncertainty going around our class Facebook page ... /packing/unwinding, hop on a taxi at 5AM Wednesday morning for a 7:30 AM flight at Logan

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  About two years ago at school I was sitting in the computer lab ... ." Not wanting to check at school I simply ignored them and put them out of ... "Snively, Improv Everywhere is doing their no-pants subway ride at 3 o

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  pass/no record already. Basically, first term freshman year at MIT, you ... people tend to get lower grades first term at MIT than they've ever gotten ... in point: At 1 AM one night in November freshman year, I was studying

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  At MIT Admissions, our mission is to recruit, select, and enroll a ... to find and admit students who will succeed at MIT and serve the world ... endnotes at the bottom of the blog. We use this feature — which we developed

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  And we leave it all behindCan't you see we need some time? at a camp ... in tents outdoors. at meals, we would gather around the heater and melt ... , there are still weeks, and then, days left.    at some point, it

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  lot while at MIT, from freshman orientation until now. I did not have the privilege of sharing a class with him, but we would meet at all our ... at the student center. Emmanuel is also highly active in the African

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources

  

  enroll into a university of 190,000 learners from all over the world, at ... students in 1971, 25,000 enrolled, and this at a time when the total student ... for conventional university. At the OU, the qualifications that the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  , got 1st place in Engineering at the International Science and ... . . . . I'll never forget meeting Melis Anahtar at FLP -- she has such a ... as a role model, as are so many other people at MIT. With graduation a

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  perfectly nonsensical goal that I could chip away at for months. I regretted ... and upside down and mirrored, all at once; but more importantly, I still ... . At MIT, it’s not enough to be vaguely smart. It turns out you have to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  ’t mention how physics believed light to work at the time, didn’t explain ideas ... Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything which I’ve read at least ... and how science has interacted with the world-at-large, and I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  my undergrad. Talking to master’s students at MIT helped solidify that ... ."]abroad.[/annotation] Some of the international scholarships in the UK would offer 2 years of ... 's are only 1-2 years and happen at a much less formative period of life

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  , it has released an issue once per semester with full-page spreads on a ... magazine hand-out at the student center, but this year, the board chose to ... arts at MIT. Put together over the course of the year by a team of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  I took two classes at Harvard! I wrote down my first impressions, and ... characters and setting.  I also met another MechE student at MIT who writes ... of the readings than I have at any MIT class. However, they also graded

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  For the second year in a row, I am teaching a class at MIT. A real, for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On ... conceptually. This may be for a few reasons. One may be that [annotation note="at

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  page run by MIT students where we anonymously confess things typically ... dominate my every interaction. Even at my happiest, there was still this ... this year when I walked into New Vassar dining hall at its peak hours

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  Classes at MIT will have you looking at a subject from about three ... science and religion at odds with one another. Nor was this an idea that was ... id="attachment_39283" align="aligncenter" width="229"] A page from

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  things that can and will change at MIT. In fact, that’s what I love about ... page about Imposter Syndrome, I think everyone responded with relief and ... -part post. That being said, I’ll assume for now that academics at MIT won

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015