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• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  to try for grad school again at some point in the future it'll be good ... for the last four years. I came in as a premed, somewhat intimidated by ... classes in 6 and 18, who went for systems, computational, and mathematical

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  perfectly edible cheese) roared ferociously at me. "WHY DID YOU DO THAT!" "It ... . You can still drink it for two weeks after." I have a strong feeling that he would have drank the entire carton, or at least a significant

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  be funded for research at some of India's top institutions is quite an ... at a hospital). How do I report this in my application?" For ... States for roughly four years ,and I do not speak English at home. While

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  congratulated him for surviving the experience and saving us $200 at the vet ... open after 8 pm for at least 70 miles"]BJ's Branding Iron Saloon ... 2021. I'm a student at MIT studying aerospace engineering. I live in

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  every principle i’ve been watching basketball on-and-off for a while now ... are way too many kinds of defense for me to be able to cover them all in ... for guarding them and following them around the court. like this

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  : bedtime at last! i need to wake up at 9.30 for a meeting, and it takes me ... about all the stuff i have to do to get ready to leave for the summer. as ... one for this class (today is the last day that any assignments can be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  Planned Parenthood Youth Advocates Today at the Planned Parenthood ... mentors gathered in the conference room for a final learning session and de ... awesome people together. Sure, part of the group is reuniting next week for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  years after taking AP Bio, and didn't feel unprepared for them at all ... answer to this question. AP tests are mostly good for getting you out of ... figure out if you really like it or not. My second term at MIT, 18.100B

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  are barely enough plates for one person to squat while another benches ... plates is rarely an issue, and you don’t have to wait for various machines ... .  I’ve come to love weightlifting, for the most basic reasons: the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  for it, but the number of classes you take doesn't determine you at ... week. (Your mileage may vary: I'm looking at you, 6.115.) The ... cla— Stop. Breathe. Your time at MIT isn't defined by the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  correspondence. Here it is: So, mainly at this point I am very excited for MIT, but ... to that extent. Yes, there are geniuses at MIT, even for MIT standards ... -overdue things. I found an entry that Mikey wrote for me that I had intended to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  year unknown, at least to me) and I all squeezed into a booth meant for 4 ... Time for some more questions: MIT App Mom asked: "Maybe it's just me ... for something I don't understand or do you mean "Techer" as in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  we'll keep them for at least another year, if not longer. Ajymurat ... , contact the Educational Council office at [email protected]. Michael B ... at all in Norway? 2. There are very few extracurricular activities

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  was like this for me, too. Specifically, I got better at math ... for being “good at math” or winning awards at math competitions. (This ... : There are four types of math major at MIT—pure math, general math, applied

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  show for it but stagnation. I’m bitter. I’m sad. I’m angry. There were posters for events from more than a year ago hanging in the infinite. Worse ... .  I’m trying to be hopeful. I’m staying in Cambridge for the summer and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  at 4 PM, my apartment’s heaters start to kick in and create a truly ... kitchen, somnambulant and predictable in my unending search for caffeine ... ’re wondering about the process we follow to evaluate applications here at MIT

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  on Discord would one day come in handy for something as important as ... something that was meant for all of you to read. I've been getting a lot of questions and concerns regarding MIT, like: how do I know MIT is right for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  option for student events at MIT, but I'd never eaten at the restaurant in ... it makes me sad."]more recently[/annotation]). Despite having been at MIT for almost four years, I had not yet explored Boston's food scene as

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  for every major. Most of this was out of curiosity and [annotation note ... junior year of high school I would look at major requirements and think of possible class schedules for colleges I didn't even apply to. Something about

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  what's best for me. I know I'm not the best at everything. That ... 's. More on that later."]last year[/annotation]at MIT? Packing up and leaving ... others' mouths, the last time I was in this classroom it was for a class I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021