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• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  , because I was surrounded by people who wanted to see me fail. This dynamic ... spectacular that others might want it, and isn’t that a boastful claim to make ... ; initially I struggled to adjust, but by late 2020, I had gained more

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  while reading this blog, this isn't entirely true, and I just want to make ... research. I miss going to college websites and reading through all of their pages and thinking about going to school there. I miss the potential

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  lathe, which I think makes me pretty cool, thank you very much. I got to ... to make sense of the math as I worked through it. At the end of the ... that only gets seen by some poor undergrad grader. I was tempted to write

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  , pro wrestling announcer Jim "J.R." Ross spoke at a colloquium hosted by ... advance screening of Blades of Glory by the Lecture Series Committee (LSC). I hope you don't think less of me for going to a talk about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  the light of the Eiffel Tower with Raymond by my side. Flights home to ... video editing and making, I want to learn how to cook properly, I want to ... make the necessary series of choices to lead me down a path that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  by reviews-- make sure they have a lot of them, and maybe check to see ... ’t die. I tried to take steps that would make getting murdered less ... only apples to eat, nothing else. How to use: Go to their website and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  tackles hardware, software, and mechanical solutions to the needs of boston area clients. i can't even begin to summarize everything i learned this semester, but you can start to poke around in the 6.811 course website to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  dogs and him. I always seemed to be so fast, to move so quickly to ...  here-we-go-again that I cannot seem to bare. I have fallen too quickly and we will fizzle ... Times, where friends and boyfriends were so quick to go and disappear

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  picked up by news organizations across the country. I first saw it at cnn.com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... more confident and self-aware. [...] Generally, schools make students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  loved most was making food in the kitchen, jamming to my favorite songs ... , but they have a tendency to make food in ridiculous quantities, so ... weeks, I keep track of things in my silly little Notion pages, I try to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  final paper (due Thursday) is meant to be 2000 words; the idea was to make ... struggling to string it all together to make one coherent narrative. That said ... essay, pin them to the clothes line, and construct his essay by physically

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Look At Stagecraft [by Susan Shepherd '11] And axes!

  

  bright hair. From left to right, the Fairy Folk are played by Sarah ... noblemen and Mechanicals, by contrast, wear clothing more suited to their ... available as well, including specialized ones where you can learn how to make

  • by ARTalk
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  Hey guys, I first want to start off by apologizing for not being around recently. However, I will make it up to you guys over this summer and into the next year. I have a ton of plans to make sure you guys know

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  or perceived quality, because: 1) I don’t trust myself to make a ... Intermezzo by Sally Rooney A: really great, would recommend to ~anyone ... strongly recommend to a friend Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut A

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  rankings by those sketchy university ranking websites. I guess a lot of ... economics are decision-making agents, who are assumed to make rational ... for uncertainty, though not so much as to make the models intractable

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  some words easier, because it stops people from making big thoughts to ... driving by all the time. The first week when I moved to the Little Town I ... to take away the Bad Things by either cutting it out, burning it with

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  (Come to the 3rd floor of the Student Center at 12 noon on Friday of ... . Welcome – MIT’s an amazing place (no matter what you’re here to study), and I bet you’re really eager to come – not just for Campus Preview

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  grading systems. We want you to know that we accept whatever grades your school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your ... information section on the self-reported coursework page to provide additional
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  -time instead of Mocha was difficult and took quite a long time to make; I started ... felt motivated by Mocha, and since I felt like I'd lost a lot of time to ... doesn't make sense to me since pushing "newbies" to do more is what helps

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  experience too. I've been to DC three times in the past week, all by train (for ... in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT ... topic of blogging. I want to reflect on a couple of points -- this

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006