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• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  surprised - and interested - at some of the comments (each of the paragraphs ... the school will only look at the BEST 4 AP and will discard ALL the ... scheduling so that it was impossible for students to take more than 2 or 3 AP

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  ?" Excellent question, Xin-Xin. I'm not much of a cyclist, but I looked at my ... auction where old bicycles sell for very cheap prices. I also discovered that you can buy a bike at Cambridge Bicycle, which is two blocks up Mass

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  I had to start using Twitter at least five times a day for Writing for ... Chelsea R. ‘15 to talk about one of her favorite classes, Writing for Social Media, and the universe it comes from. I deeply respect Chelsea for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for those Not Admitted

  most competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting less than 1 in 10 ... , many, many incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk.

  • by Admin
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for those Not Admitted

  

  most competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting only 1 in 10 ... , many, many incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  to take it for granted. It's been raining sooo much lately. I ... most known for its dining hall, for better or for worse[/caption] Right ... I am and does not detect me as a moving entity despite walking at a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  creations at my desk this summer. On Monday, I put all these pieces up for ... About a year ago, I wrote about the origami I’d made at my internship ... semester), but now I have a brand new batch of internship origami for your

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  At MIT, students are able to declare their major starting sometime ... need for students to understand both the science and engineering of ... -9 would be ✨perfect✨ for what I wanted. When my student advisor suggested

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  , because our lives are always changing at every moment, every breath being a ... had asked everybody to leave campus, so I was at my boyfriend Chris’s family home in New Jersey. It was just the two of us. We’d been dating for

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

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  The first quarter comes to a close at MIT. I am crocheting winter ... gratification isn't the single thing to strive for, but it sure is exciting. I ... [/annotation], where I have to debug every program and circuit I make for two

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  I'm given to understand that at other colleges, students actually get ... final exams. Here at MIT, we're only granted a paltry four-day weekend ... groups get together at the end of the semester to schedule next semester

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  goes on. For years, I've subconsciously been trying to come up with a formula for success. Ya know the big ol' "what makes someone successful?" Up ... seemed to be simple. It was easy to identify what was at the top of the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month or a few at a time. I specifically sought out a summer internship in ... this summer was the Summerland Trail at Mount Rainier, the crowning jewel

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is ... standing culture that our ancestors may have had at any point of time. We ... undeniably call mine. I feel that for a long time I was okay with this because

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  say that the GEL 2s devote at least ten hours a week to help plan each ... . At our GEL 2 team meeting a few nights before the ELL, we did some ... that every team had to make at least one negotiation before completing a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  towards sleep at -9.81 m/s^2. In 12 hours, I will be in class. For now, I ... literally solved this in 2 seconds after looking at it for about 5 seconds ... your aunt's home videos: And now for the integrals, or at least the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  for him? Well, I was one of those people. Let me show you what that ... 'll all come together in the end. I promise. I have a gift for this kind of ... hosted at mitblogs.com. So my blog was at laura.mitblogs.com, and Ben was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  [edited 05/14 after first posted at 2 AM; corrected by Clara '10 ... three of the bloggers would drop off the face of the earth for a little while, and I would look down at their page over my absurdly high nose and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in ... community, I did research at a local university. But in spite of all of those ... would ever want me at their school? A year later, I still don't really

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  for three MIT students on vacation at an art museum. He used phi, my ... stopped at a grocery store for some provisions and headed off for a ... further and now must be stabilized with cables. For those of you just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006