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• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  Fridays, and you're going to spend the rest of the day doing anything you ... bump into you on your way to your favorite hipster coffee shop. For the ... doing that will make it easier for you to get jobs." 6.854 - Advanced

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  're allowed to paint the walls (and have cats and smoke, if you're into that ... really want to do. Interesting walls do not make a person, and the money ... comes time to choose your living groups (because, you know, it's only

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  this way makes it seem like a chore, but I needed a way to hold myself ... making new memories. To clarify, I think it’s easy to make new memories on ... introverted, and my social bandwidth is limited, even more so when it comes to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  Well, it has certainly been fun to write as an admissions blogger. I ... able to write on this site, so when the GEL program asked if I wanted to ... opportunity to be able to link some of the lessons I’ve had in engineering

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  assistance he can. "I feel like it's my duty to make an impact on the world ... head off to college. I'll often get emailed them, though this summer I've only received one so far. If you're an MIT '09 and you've had an article

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  wrong. I would try so hard to focus and pay attention and make things ... million ways to solve the same problem, and your imagination and creativity is more of a superpower than your ability to measure things with a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  Kansas City, I had a 6.006 (Intro to Algorithms) midterm later that day ... throwback to last year's Eastern Sectionals, as I was vying for a spot on the ... myself mentally and physically fit to compete was one giant monster in and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  , speeches to give, and presentations to make. In Japanese classes, there are ... , to make telephone calls - with often the entire class consisting of one ... tries to mimic real life as much as possible, and you're not asked to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  is bad when you're ready to miss these two."] small compromise ... of running, we were able to make it to Billie Eilish's performance ... and venturing into the wilderness is an amazing way to spend your time

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  to make my choice out of those options, usually only ending up with ... longer to make something I've never tried before, I make more of a mess and ... your idea has come to beautiful fruition, you can perfect it; bring back

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  to the best of your ability," where X=bike or car or Shrek or Tim ... your own Tim to this collage, please do in the comments of this post ... ! Sometimes when you're faced with a blank canvas, expected to draw something

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  more classes of computer science jargon and decided to just make the leap ... not denote your success in the class. I put in 20+ hours a week to my ... blogpost in an attempt to talk about it. What is 21E? I am not the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  splash of life to any meal. Green also makes it seem exotic; almost ... moral of the story is to eat your greens, kids (and by “greens”, I mean ... Office gave a presentation about adjusting to life in the alien environment

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  years, i have had more of this sense of "i am allowed to make whatever ... asked "so... are you planning to meet up with anyone else while you're ... question. it is forcing one to make judgments about oneself, to explicitly

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  CollegeBoard to send the scores to us, they will automatically go into your ... will put your application into the best light. You're also welcome to ... . Once you've submitted your application you can only add to it, not change

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were ... had to leave MIT. I spent around 190 days at MIT. 185 of those days ... hours a week during IAP to prepare for our annual show...those hours stack

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  Google Calendar to manage all my academics and events, but i put my lists ... all my work to prepare for my boyfriend staying over, but now that he's gone, time has slowed to a crawl. my area issued a shelter-in-place until

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  . Maybe your experiences were similar to mine; probably a lot of them were ... .[/annotation]Then, I moved to Boston, making me pretty unavailable to help the younger ... will make a post compiling them all some day"]there was so much more to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  MIT, but I'd like to attend CW if possible. I heard we get to make ... awesome t-shirts. However, I have good news about MIT! If you're coming to ... make me no less of a manly man, I happened to have two stuffed animals on

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  doing it right. And so I followed their advice. I tried to make the most ... makes me feel about as awful as not doing anything all. I'm starting to ... clock smacks me hard enough to make me do something.   —time skip—

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022