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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  You know you’re hosed when it takes you a week after classes start to ... that actually accept is probably closer to 10-15%. There are a lot of ... whether I want to double major in math or be a 6-2 instead of a 6-3, and 18

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  HAS A HEALTHY AMOUNT OF CAPITALS AND EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!!!   ... warm clothes. I’m wearing a ski jacket as I write this…no shame in being ... from 40-60 degrees on average, with rain on Thursday. If you just wear a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  's already a reading assigned for 5.13? This is nonsense. This year is going to be nonsense. Junior year: Ha! A few days before classes started, I made sure there wasn't a single thing on Stellar* that I didn't know about. I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  although she has been a marvelous student in high school, she was really ... process. The good news is that she got accepted to a bunch of schools all ... of 12 schools down to 3. (Whewww!!! That’s been a journey.) We are now

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  physics problem sets, sketches for a full-length blues arrangement for jazz ensemble due in a week. Exhale: raw spring air blistering against penuriously ... . Overhead, a countable infinity of little stars twinkled, and I pondered their

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  This, potentially, is the longest I've gone without a blog entry ... have a Brass Rat. I've completed most of the "book" classes and am about ... the emotions that coincide with the MIT Gamut (a term I just made up

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  Over this past weekend, many prefroshies asked me a very interesting question - and I believe that this warrants a more drawn-out response from me ... too nerdy. I question whether I would even be able to find a balanced

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  was approaching like a derailed train headed toward Charleston, West ... kitchen of Random Hall had melted from a relatively-docile social hub into a ... me sprawled a miniature metropolis of snack foods inspired by the great

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  very outdated website here: It's almost exactly one year old! I get a ... works. In some respects that's tricky to answer, but I can give it a shot ... discussed over a dozen times by various bloggers, websites, and other people

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  By Chris Mills '12 It's 3:30 a.m. I have to leave to get to the airport in approximately 30 minutes. In a moment I'm all too familiar with ... insisting we take a picture: far more chipper than I   The rest of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  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 ... ... The MIT admissions blogs are, as a whole, supposed to convey a diverse

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  I'm taking a break from my weekend of watching Lost episodes downloaded from iTunes and buying furniture for the new apartment to do a ... websites. I spent a great deal of the summer before my freshman year at MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  adventure down memory lane. And for those of you who I haven't told a billion ... sounding like a bad Xanga entry, I'll warn you, gentle reader, that thar be ... 't throw diesel fuel on a fire 5) Don't invite someone to something, even if

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  The summer before you come to MIT, there’s a bunch of forms to fill ... about you).” It’s a question that loosely summarizes identity as two ... culture. If you’re in the market for somewhere to be from, I give Hawaii a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  Hi guys! My name is Quynh, and like Connie, I’m a crusty old senior about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... —I’m majoring in biology with a minor in chemistry and have spent the last four

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  availability on campus is a little scarce. Do you have time to cook, even if it's just once every two weeks as part of a co-op? Or do most kids just end up eating whatever is quickly made?" 2) "If you (or anyone you know) has a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  New York City like a normal college student. For those of you who ... . At a high level, it allows him to lift, rotate, and fuse objects ... accurately answer Fatema’s question – 6 directions (one for each face of a cube

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  For a while now, I’ve had this realization that I tend to overthink a lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There are always moments when you’re presented with a decision, and naturally

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  -planet" images, like this! (credit: 6.8371 staff, NASA)[/caption] We were given a ... blurring effects, while Poisson image editing is a method of automatically combining two images together in a way that looks seamless and natural as

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  semester, I’m taking 21M.370 – Digital Instrument Design! It’s a new ... [annotation note="For our first assignment, I made a synthesizer patch that emulated an ambulance siren during a rainy day, and he loved it

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024