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• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  involved you are, the selection gets smaller and smaller. Of course this ... pages of MIT Confessions, I applaud him for writing more meaningful words ... boyfriend #1) for a couple of years and told myself that, despite getting gas

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  go on (another) ten page rant about social media and the Erosion of ... of music, and I’d blog all the time, I thought. But this is hard. It ... afraid of being bored. I didn’t take the airpods and ran without them.  I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  so fuzzy with panic and sweat I only understood the first half of his ... . Kind of like the time I was sick and had to go to 5.12 lecture because it ... walked awkwardly away, and just like I'd read about in the "stages of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  recommendations is one of the biggest factors for getting into graduate school, and ... , and Adam's lost his once. All three times, a member of the MIT community ... the night just because a) so much of it is inside, and b) there are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  cool, and also touches on a lot of the general reasons as to why MIT is ... blah and that whole time of your life was basically a waste of time and I ... calculus and talking about summations. In my experience, a lot of the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  first and to put fragile items on top. When I’m not careful about this step, I always end up squishing all of the bananas, and it’s very sad ... Image courtesy of greggavedon.com   The following is a guest

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  these avid readers of the blogs, and I didn't hear much about MIT before ... idyllic view of MIT, and I carried this with me for the most part, which ... simultaneously, and it was a weird juxtaposition of feelings.  Hand me the L now

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  senior year, though I was surrounded by some of the most caring and genuine ... that bothered me was the mentality of the class as a whole…… It terrified ... and the effort to go through another four years of schooling deserves

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  ; And for those of you in FRC -- have fun with Stronghold! It's the first ... you spent last Friday and Saturday eagerly awaiting the unveiling of the ... United States and the former head of Google[x]. It's been called MIT's most

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  . (And by join a team I mean spend much less than a day out of the three ... campus. For some of the puzzles, the first challenge is trying to figure ... this right. Specifically the snow piles in front of 77 Mass Ave. Once

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  whole point of the Thevenin/Norton thing is making the assumption that ... from the MIT homepage yesterday, the final day of voting. According to ... honored in the strip." The strip has not yet run, but as of 12:58am this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  of 2011) are also the first year in which a 5 on AP Biology is no ... Insane (and it really is crazy...I came here kind of skeptical about the difficulty of 8.012, but after seeing the work in the first couple of weeks, I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  method of looking into a mirror. The first culprit was binge ... , Electrical, and Aerodynamics/Composites. I’m in the latter of these, where I ... opened the sketch portion of SolidWorks and I tried to make a rectangle

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  of the First Year, they have free snacks and gumballs. I haven ... I go to them every day, but some of the further away buildings and ... freshman year, the first one jointly being in Course 15 (Management) and 22

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  test. I anxiously waited and took the swim test, and of course I failed ... out of the pool and my legs were literally shaking. Y’all, swimming is hard. I took the walk of shame to the table and signed up for a swim

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  the slight urge to huddle under a blanket with a warm cup of tea and ... insignificant. (Even dust-speck-in-the-grand-scheme-of-time-and ... , the walls of my room and B-Entry in MacGregor have many nice things. I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Fondue: fun and done A break from admissions at the Fondue party.

  

  , Eric Klopfer, and Margery Resnick. One of the big appeals of the party ... Skier and Barbara Baker). And any party with 5 of the bloggers there must ... [see also: Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory] Last night, after a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  I was born in the province of Sichuan and speak the Sichuan dialect ... , there is none. For the first month and a half I was here I did not see a ... sunset shuddered and from the sky came several drops of rain. One landed on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  commits the crime (murder) within the first 10 pages, and then spends the ... celebrate! If not, I hope this blog, the same virtual mug of tea, and a ... and stay clear of the clutches of procrastination.  Well… I did start

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  surfaces and stuff. So I love the first layer of abstraction that comes with ... the TEAL structure of the 8.01 (Classical Mechanics) and 8 ... of the transcription for clarity and/or space saving Introductions

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