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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  state of your paper. 3) you get a week to submit a rebuttal to address ... kind to myself remains a work in process. wave imagery inspired by ... a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  . This gave a degree of accuracy to 1mL, or 1g. I would be able to get ... forge. Generally you more often get burned not by red-hot pieces, which are obviously hot, but by cooling black metal that still holds a lot of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  to ride in a chariot, it was priceless to see the reactions of passers-by ... great way to waste time and you’re sure to get a laugh and a memory. And ... : maybe you’re accepted, and you envision yourself instantly getting a job

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last ... lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... nonstandard criteria - not gpa, etc.?" To borrow a line from my Dean, Marilee

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  and pretending that you’re battling demons in order to get a better pump ... Center[/annotation] have limited hours, those looking to squeeze in a quick ... reflect it. Students get complimentary access to campus gyms, so it’s easier

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  but fell short of getting this case to work. I’ve also tried a different ... considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... tends to have a shorter timeline (still ~6 months from submission to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a ... like to mention that there is a writing requirement here at MIT. To some ... this way. My son has a pile of graduation thank you notes to write and I

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  'm serious. 10. Take a weekend trip to NYC - Chinatown bus. $15. Gets you ... - how else do you get to the airport? lol. I'm too poor to take a taxi ... Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  asked a bunch of MIT students to say some things about themselves and their majors by visualizing it on a very large piece of plywood. Each ... or humanities (though we suspect we just didn't get a lot of humanities

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn ... marketable skills you acquire from college to land a job constitutes a good ... . Money can't buy a pivotal moment to crush to smithereens your bad habits

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  ambitious in job-hunting (may turn out to be a problem when I get out of ... high school friends, getting to do undergraduate research is a pretty big ... classroom concepts in a practical environment, you get research experience to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  'm getting in! I'm getting in!" moments, followed by, "they'll never take me ... the day, the facts remained: I wanted to go to School A and I needed to ... how it ever got to the point where I put so much emphasis on a place

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B ... silly hats not on Halloween. Wear silly hats to your lab section. Get ... 're here, now, carrying a Nerf gun looking for people to shoot. Worry

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  was a middle-school cross country and road runner, I used to get ... to give advice and out of frustration with prefrosh who posted a bunch ... they should retake to raise them by 30 points. I hope that it gives you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a ... past two weeks, and it’s definitely a normal thing to feel. MIT is hard ... . This map originated from a poll taken last year by Casie Chen ‘17, who

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  Picture this. You’re trying to shuffle past a gaggle of camera ... , then return to their conspiratorial whispering. Before you think up a phrase best voiced by a euphemism, someone walks past you saying, “That

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  chances of remembering them later. Take selfies with people as a way to get to know them. Make it a game: try to get a selfie with someone from ... Learn how to get lost. Make a semi-regular hobby of wandering around

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  get my work done, and it took me a while to understand that my ability ... actually relax by not doing this to myself! I am taking a break from setting ... plan to not have spring break plans, but I feel like I have a lot of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  , or visually with coins and blocks. You also get to have a lot of fun ... around the world. I’d like to finish by asking you to do me a favor. Think ... America Challenge, which sends about a dozen students to schools around the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  impossible to get into a top med school without research from MIT (I know many ... so much at MIT just to get a B in our premed classes that we are forced ... . Don't be afraid to drop and retake. 4. Get into a research lab ASAP (as

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011