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• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of ... graduation. For decades, almost every student to graduate from Deerfield had ... to do something else for a while. You know, take a break from homework

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  recuperation from, my oral presentation on GFP for 10.28: Saturday: Scored free ... program consisting only of works that were orignally commissioned for the ... and Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, both of which I've studied a lot

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  . Saturday 9:00 a.m. For breakfast I eat cereal and drink jasmine tea. Then I ... feeling pretty stressed and mentally out of it for a few weeks so I’m hoping ... cold plunges a habit for the serotonin boost that followed. When we get

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  China for the first time in 6 years this summer. Although 9th grade of ... California a Monday afternoon and stayed there with my family for a day before heading out together for China the next morning. While I packed pretty light

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  surprisingly common behavior for lots of people. I couldn’t, really, tell you why ... you ought to be.  For the past few years, birthdays have also just been ... is perhaps the most egregious. I know crying is a healthy outlet for

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  For those of you who have been following my blog posts this semester ... for more reflections along this train of thought, though. Interval - This was Joon and I's final project for 6.809 (Interactive Music Systems

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  waiting for a million things all the time, whether it's for undergraduate ... decisions, to get an email back about a potential UROP, waiting for something ... to take an exam tonight at 7:30 pm, but I'm also waiting to go home for

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  narrow them down to just 4 at the beginning of each semester (or 5 for the over-achievers or 6 for the eventually sleep-deprived). Well, at least we ... .042 – Math for Computer Science (just had our first exam, so bleh^2) CMS.100

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  -is-closed hard. But people like to stay active; my hall, for instance, is currently ... ]. My roommate and I have been making plans for renovating our room (more ... know how to learn how to do things (ew, sorry for the string of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  heading back to Cambridge for a quick apartment move before the start of classes. Whew. When I made the decision to come back to MIT for grad school ... more time passed, and as I was writing my applications for graduate

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Time to Complete the MIT Midyear Report Applicants need to fill out the form on MyMIT by February 15th.

  

  also an option in the Report for students whose schools do not provide ... applying for financial aid on the Student Financial Services website.  The deadline for applying for financial aid is also February 15th. Best wishes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  -12.30 (12-134) or TR1-2.30 (12-134) ______ For students with a special ... vehicle for improving one's style while studying the nuances of the language ... means for autobiographer and biographer to develop a personal voice; and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  bestowed her wisdom upon the bloggers. It is unarguably god tier for task ... ways in my life that I've used task management, especially for goal ... 's just for task management. Task management is for the school year; goal

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  fledged frosh and other alliterations! Want to eat ice cream on toast for breakfast? Go for it! Don't want to go to class? You won't get in trouble! Want to give me a plasma screen TV for free? Be my guest! Remember, you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT Bloggers Sniped Wrapped in which people take a LOT of photos of me around campus

  

  series of group chats for work stuff or class materials. What's really cool is that you can make separate tabs for different topics. It's kind of like discord for your dad. Most groups have a general announcements tab

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  14/01/2025 20:00 this IAP, i am in Tenerife for 12.411 (astronomy ... satisfies the thesis requirement for astronomy minors and some unknown requirement for course 12 (earth and planetary science) majors. as part of the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  examiners, i registered for what i hope will be the equivalent of 48 units at ... difference is that there is more room for a self-guided pace. concretely, this ... for each class in the entire term. this is because a lot of your grade

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  track of time. I flew back home to Pennsylvania for the first time on ... in my bed for a solid thirteen hours. I've spent my time back home with ... ,[/annotation]I want to reflect on 2023, but first, I want to set some goals for 2024

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  [*] dressed up as Scarlet Witch for Halloween [*] saw Spider-Man: No Way Home ... place for me to embrace my interests with others who seemed to be just as ... on campus. I was taking 18.02a and 8.01L. I was cooking for myself and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  classes. I don't want to fork over cash for an electric scooter or a bike, neither do I want to pay for a Bluebike ride for an ~8 minute walk every time. We as a society have settled for suboptimal modes of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023