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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  ’t expend much energy on pondering the concept of gratitude. In that sense ... professors; public transportation; everybody who has taken a chance on me; and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  unknowns. for example, it was only through a graduate sitting in on one of ... get on a call with us, so we did. we talked about how no one's going to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  do it better than everyone else. I approached everything we worked on ... delusional confidence, audacity, and a healthy chip on my shoulder.  Does that

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  alternate titles include: on taking too many damn classes; should we ... psets for those 12 classes. I choose which classes to stick with based on ... of them. But I’m extremely averse to dropping classes later on in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  on this post to focus the conversations on the open threads for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  like I'm writing. It feels like words are appearing on the page. When it stops I look at the words I've typed and I see my own vomit on a screen ... becoming a better person. i've also spent a lot of time feeling on the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  put more cards in your deck and earn gold that can be spent on shops ... was really happy when I got a problem on an HMMT test, and yeah, people ... specific archetype, instead choosing cards based on what your deck needs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  20 Things I Learned In 2020 from a course 20 who is in her 20s

  

  on the impact. (thanks 11.011) There's no one way to measure ... -deprecation. The list goes on. [caption id="attachment_59995" align

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  don't know. Me:  Once you decide on the most important thing, you ... essay is really an opportunity to focus on who you are and the ways in

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  ’all. It made such an impact on me, I even set a scene there for my novel ... ?”  On the rare occasions my family eats out, we never order beverages. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2025 is now live

  

  personal information with strangers on the other side of a screen. For us ... someone else's middle. Everyone is on their own journey; we're glad yours

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  . nearly every store on the street was open (with proper safety regulations ... beach to watch the sunset on. 20 minutes of driving later, we arrived at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  more on the things that matter to them while still preserving our ability ... be on your health, and the health of your community, and not worrying

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  needing to move on to the next thing, and the next thing, and only in that one hour i steal from work each week on friday afternoon having enough ... quality: it doesn't feel like I am "choosing" to do them or not based on how

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  routines is also hard my body really has aged and no longer can function on ... curve on blender is too damn high sometimes its easier to write code

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  The semester is over and I'm back at home, spread out on my much too familiar living room sofa. At this point, I should be familiar with how ... canCheck up on people you haven't heard from in a whileDon't hold off

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  classes I was in, I wanted to spend more time working on personal projects ...  yes to too many things, only to suffer later on. I'm still learning how to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  problematic behavior on Twitter. The Massachusetts Institute of Technicalities ... nude models. I have, however, practiced my taxidermy on several plants

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  Chinatown.     When I turned in my last final on Thursday the 20 ... most importantly, I started my Downton Abbey binge. I'm now on Season 5

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  school is all I was focusing on? But the next round will be better, right? And so I kept going on, convinced that just a little bit more effort ... from this and graduate on time. I listened to it all. But ultimately, it

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018