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• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  one box, so you can imagine that I have quite a lot of work to do over ... . Then there's seminar advising, where your advisor leads a small group of students in a kind of mini-class on some random, fun topic. (You get a few

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  , and the office is revving back up. And with that, it's time for a few admissions process updates, and a note about Early Action. ADMISSIONS PROCESS ... getting a lot of calls and emails from students concerned that their mailed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  thing I came to MIT to learn about! This has to do with Albatross, a ... , but my source is my professor telling me and like a quick google search. If you are looking for a credible source, try using this link here. If

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  , three expectedly busy weeks. I’ve gotten sick for a brief period, seen ... meaning of midterm is fatally lost on MIT). There’s a lot that happens, and I think I sunk a bit too deeply into the Institute these past few

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  life isn't meant to be reduced to a list of things to do. Not Gonna Throw ... , that this is my shot. My shot to do something with myself. To become a ... It hit me just a little while ago, that today is November 1st. It

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  on the quiz -- for reference, I got a 0 on last quiz. I began to ... because this class has been hell for me and I couldn't do it again, I didn't want to do it again. I spiraled and talked to some people about some

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  Becca H. '12 Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch by Rachel F. '12 Do I have a ... doing so. The whole idea behind the blogs is to open a window into the ... bound together as a book (which we won't do, because: trees), it would be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  section twice a week to review the video content and do practice problems ... this class. Wrong. Want to do aero/astro? 6.100A. Archaeology? 6.100A ... Year (with a Google Slideshow as evidence) and[annotation note = "tl

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  Discord bot. I eat a banana while doing some logic puzzles. At around 2 PM ... I wake up at 9 AM, and it's the first time in a while that I've been awake this early. Of the four people I'm sharing a room with, I'm the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  't ready to speak a certain way, you can't make them learn it. All you can do ... different. I tried to get into a fifth class and didn't (it was too ... , although it's a little hard to tell, because the first week of the semester

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  I said I'd do it, no? Many of these websites won't have information ... . YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO ANY SUMMER PROGRAM TO GET INTO MIT, by the way. I ... Development at Northwestern University, or CTD. At CTD, you spend 6-7 hours a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  have a class that diverges so much from the typical work I do for my MIT ... concentration, but in a different way than doing an algorithms pset. It's like ... I'm taking a somewhat lighter course load this semester. I signed up

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  As I start writing this, I have a midterm in exactly 24 hours. I ... year, I am a senior. Most of the friends I first made here have all ... chaos when I graduate. Despite hanging out with my alumni friends a lot, I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  Period--the month of January where students can do as they please (take a class, do research, go abroad, take a long winter break, etc. etc ... 're a really stubborn person who wants to be able to do everything

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  – now we’re ready to do a test screening to ensure there are no egregious ... things that projectionists do during a screening – threading the film ... most fun way to watch a movie, so we don’t do that. Instead, the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  they would do, including: Create a blacklist of banned websites ... . And we do that by allowing a lot of students to write freely about their experiences. We could not do this in a world in which SOPA and PIPA were law. We

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  , as a full-time student as a full-time MIT student, there was the all ... , and accepted the fact that in my 12-year long stint as a figure skater, I had had a fulfilling-enough career, and if choosing MIT meant that I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  fantasy How to pick up chicks A history of the trumpet Colors - How do ... ," "Colors - How do they work? (why do they exist?)" and "How to be a sloth ... a long time. Essentially, one can do astronomy at every wavelength of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  walks us through how a bill becomes a law (the takeaway: very few do) and ... My name is Anna Ho, and I am a student at – No, no. That’s not the point. My name is Anna Ho, and I am a constituent living in Cambridge. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  teacher's classroom), but I knew I wanted one in my dorm. After doing a ... method when I don't wanna do a pset.   Also haven't gotten to naming ... So last semester I had a radical idea to get a pet aquatic turtle. I

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025