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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  majority of my free time (as it does), and during the year, the time that I ... some of the side characters, and I would have read both books in three ... Japanese, and I wound up finishing about half of The Kids are Alright before

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  whole thing has a couple of parts: a class component the summer before ... ’d the test go?” instead of “what’d you get?” and you never have to give a ... because of the labs and additional projects besides psets. Figure out how

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  of course rapidly changing.) Still though, the gap has lingered, and a ... training after work. Subjects were randomly given one of the two texts, and ... first part of the study, supposedly to measure their personal spatial

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  own website and foundation, emphasize the narrative of homelessness by ... across the world and fights against the stigma of menstruation and period ... naturally attach these terms to the real and painful struggles of homelessness

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  that they have fingers and toes. I first start with the fingers. I have ... toe individually. Notice the soles of the feet, and then the entire foot ... to reach out and get help. Here are just a few of the awesome resources

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  the two of us and the fact that I'm still looking at the Mc ... of the pages. Ethan's job is sign all pages he believes are ready. This ... pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  name of your undergrad institution and more with how you make the most of ... the first place. And not because this will make writing your personal ... to keep the fire burning when it’s 3 am and you’re pipetting instead of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  I wrote this on my first day of classes this past Tuesday, and ... ’t control, everything. In 6.832: Underactuated Robotics, the whole purpose of ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  began following the lives of Ben, Matt, and Mitra. Soon after, Sam and I ... . At the end of undergrad, I was deciding between going and working in ... number patterns in your head? Cool!”). The whole concept of “people like me

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  . And the whole world. I think the point was that I'm taking so few units ... the concepts of work, education, and happiness. But in my busiest term ... out of 6 problem sets in 10.494: ICE-T3 and the professor was basically

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  beginning of this summer -- and he's been told by one of the professors in the ... school class, and the first male valedictorian in 10 years -- he's not a ... , and was captain of the cross-country team his senior year. He was also a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  piles of dirty laundry, p-sets, paper, scarves, and pencils. The drawers ... reason to live. I stopped seeing the point of going to college and ... needed to formulate the problem myself, to read lots of papers, and to try

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  and at the frat. There’s been the prospect of my first technical job ... two-month period in fifth grade and the culmination of every wistful ... dexterity. There’s a ton of people in MIT who play the piano (and everything

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  ."]plot points,[/annotation] the 2003 Hunt was the first to have many pages of ... audience and popularity grew over time. The first Hunts had dozens of ... overwhelmed those first few hours of the Hunt that I had to take a break, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  legs and walk the length of the car. As I headed back to my seat, I ... of two nearly-identical, 300-foot-long buildings known as the West and ... for construction in 1923, and opened to students for the first time in

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  basement. The first few years of the ’93 dormitory and East Campus as a whole ... TeX-based CAPTCHA, and the super PAC Why Not ZoidPAC?, of which he is President and ... MIT’s second dorm, East Campus, and the inauguration of the hacking

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  [z] enough for MIT". When the website loaded and I skimmed that page ... the heck of it. We had no experience and no clue what we were doing, but ... , and most of the other schools I applied to were art schools anyway. My

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  ; at the time, it was basically a couple of text-only pages and not very ... among the best -- and, at the same time, the hardest -- years of my life ... world and about what I wanted to contribute to it. Much of the time I am

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  , setting the flat panel of the track, and a fifth, with dyed red hair ... roof below—I know I must be in the right place. The first floor of Burton-Conner: potted plants on windowsills and a Dalek at the end of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  like the first 60 pages, but it got more coherent and I do now!) I ... ’ve been able to really be a part of the lab. I attend meetings and reading ... want to work first) I was left with a feeling of real panic and (somewhat

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018