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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  or just REALLY love math, like an obsessive amount, don't take this ... one semester. If you don't need 6.100B (not many courses do) then you ... don't exactly hit the target, because you'll have gone on a great walk

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  simply sufficient.  Don’t limit yourself by asking what do I need to do

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  that people like some foods and don't like other foods, but the immediate ... don't know, really. But, at the very least, what I do know is that I ... our mortal ills KC: always. TD: Don't be, it tasted so good DA: I have

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  someone comfy seats next to a table so I can sit cross-legged I don't ... luck finding a time it's empty 5th Floor if things don't work out on ... aren't closed off so they don't feel private Quiet Side Pros deathly

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  work each afternoon: I spent one day[annotation note="Since I don't have ... separately, when you bring them together you find that they don't actually fit ... doesn't ask any question that I don't know the answer to. This was totally

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  research in general over the last few months. As a disclaimer, I don't speak ... auto-rejected because conference reviewers don't have time to try to fix ... Hexad User Types By Using Gameful Applications I Don’t Care as Long as

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  three minutes darn i can't save the world if i don't then i will starve ... class today. I don't think he is real. Perhaps he was created by a robot. i am scared for what i will see when i wake up tomorrow morning don't

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  -optimal solutions to the questions, or simply don't finish at all, so my success with ... get an offer (or don't) soon after your on-site. I can't speak too much ... don't think I am. My goal is to have at *least* one job offer by the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  of a cry but don’t know a good place for it, I’ve got you covered

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

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

  

  of the material was really interesting. I don’t think I acknowledged ... trying to make new friends. I don’t mean that I’ve shut myself off to new ... not asking for extensions or going to Medical. Don’t be like me! It

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

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  celebrity units. I'm not always the one asking the question, of course - I don't

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  rumored to live. But we don’t have a sorting hat, so I made a sorting hat ... ). Bayes’ Theorem allows us to calculate what we don’t know from what we do ... be practical, But don’t judge on what you see. I’ll eat your clothes if

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  major in Course 14. If you are a senior in high school, don't trust your ... probably don't know! 4. How do some people manage to take 6 classes at MIT ... ? You don't want your art to be that person. Go for it.” This applies not

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  . This was odd, because we don't have paper applications anymore; also

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  equations. They don’t look familiar. You try to find your professor’s office ... . You don’t know how to get back down. You finish a problem set. There ... sleeping and waking but you don’t know in which direction. hamaonoverdrive

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  friends: 1) sleep—if you don't sleep you will cease to function as a human

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  against major news platforms and don’t want to belittle stories that ... , and feel their heart sink because they don’t feel like they’re good ... about how impossible your dreams are or application stereotypes. Don’t

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... to the blogs, so I don't feel bad. Life away from MIT is great; the ... I don't continue it right now, though. I've been in school for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  some crazy….creative….????.... modern art…. line drawings. I don’t really

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  are way too good at carving pumpkins. I don't think I've ever carved a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011