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• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  with all great blog posts, we begin this one with a screencap: via ... . What you’re looking at is a screenshot from Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo & ... a foray into poems that the 21L (Literature) department has deemed

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Match Our thoughts, and a request for current MIT students to weigh in.

  

  updated, and I think it's a good overview. I'm hoping, however, that current ... this thread and add their thoughts on the topic. What qualities do you ... , social, and otherwise? Do you have any anecdotes from your MIT experience

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 5, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Are Beginning To Arrive Some thoughts for everyone.

  

  A few of you are starting to receive your decisions. To those of you ... the best. Don't let this stop you from doing all of the great things in this world that you are meant to do. For those of you on the waitlist

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  during my freshman year when doing a future plans project. I knew I was ... high school discoveries of MIT do speak somewhat to a lack of MIT in the ... :) Harry: In a way, everything I am doing now is South-Dakota-related as I am

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  , stretching, taking a walk, doing ab exercises, etc.) Watching things ... do this in reverse order I get easily discouraged when a problem is ... I should do first. Making a plan calms me down and allows me to focus

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  This is a long one. Apologies in advance! First, a quick response to ... description, nor is it in Matt's. It's something we do in our spare time because we think that keeping in touch with you guys on a personal level makes

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  MIT website: I'm an AFFILIATE now. No longer a student! Maybe that ... a lifestyle change: *     *     * Post-MIT life involves a lot of airports and train stations. Yesterday, I was at LaGuardia waiting for a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  ), Leon, Niyatee, Sarah, and everyone else for doing a little pinch ... information." I'll try to do a longer entry about this earlier, but I encourage ... wrote, "I do have a serious question though. I had my interview weeks ago

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  's?" I reply "Why do you put so much emphasis on HYPSM?" When a parent says ... , what are you doing to help him/her figure that out? Here's a hint: if you ... Some parents wrote to me and asked me to contribute my opinions to a

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  assignments a week to keep up with. I did not do a very good job of keeping up ... , and I want to do well in them.  I had a talk with my instructor in 2 ... point with this blog is this: You don’t have to do a morbillion things to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 3 A Valentine's Day surprise

  

  On Valentine's Day, (boy/girl)friends of MIT students have a unique ... into a lecture hall or classroom and serenade a lucky individual. Last year, the Logs burst into my Quantum Lecture, and sang to a boy in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  lab doing bench work again after almost a year. i can taste spring on ... have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred ... have made me think a lot about what it means to be and do good in spite

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  make. I called my parents in a panic because I didn’t know what to do ... watched me do a lot of math about the amount of taxes I would have to pay ... On April 16th, 2020, my life changed. That’s a kitschy way to put it

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  I expected junior fall as a course 6 to be a challenging semester ... as an international student. Recruiting season feels like a make ... graduate by getting an internship at a firm that would be likely to extend a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  were busier than usual, but I didn't notice since I was doing, uh, the same amount of work I'd do on a regular basis at school in person. I ... semester, the past few months in particular, have all been a blur, but we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  WHAT DO I DO.) I feel like sometimes one feels pressure to wait until a ... resident woke up to find a personalized sticky note on his or her door. I still have mine: During the same week, my friend Daniel (who was a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  demonstrate your (in)ability to do this. We would prefer it to be a blog. We ... you do not presently keep a blog, you now have 3.5 weeks to create and ... . If you do have a current blog, please send a link to it. If your blog

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  harder." (soliciting answers to a question) "I hear one, I hear none. Do I ... Professor Arthur Mattuck), do yourself a favor and check out these additional ... range of people, with a similarly broad array of interests, passions, and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  Boston this summer in my sorority house with a kickass river view of Boston ... least once a week, and my life is awesome. Case in point. During the ... the Sox had a home game based on if lights were on in Fenway. Even then

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/19/20, 3:14 PM ET

  

  ,’[/annotation]it’s anime. Can you do this for me?” And, with a tear in my eye, I looked at my ... and a Slack message from Petey appears saying, “Kellen, I need you to ... replies with, “But, do me one favor. Make it anime! Because, if there’s one

  • by kellen manning
  • December 14, 2020