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• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  length you need. Most of the time, these are cute. They fall into the ... hard because you were walking too slowly on the right instead of the left ... on the street. I stand in front of a store eating a vending machine

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  , though, Alex.) The admissions staff doesn't have some set list of priority ... cheating, etc.). You haven't changed yourself for the sake of getting into ... the most general sort of advice I can offer. If you (mostly juniors, but

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How hard are courses at MIT?

  groups, and the first year is graded on a pass/no record system. While your ... getting in the way of their schoolwork. ... memorization, but rather if you truly understand the metrial. MIT is dedicated
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  the Loomis-Whitney inequality). I first learned this proof (of the 3 ... some thoughts about life at MIT :). The math in the first part is some ... first year at MIT. Part 1: The Loomis-Whitney inequality (aka the math

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  until recently all of which begs the question: how do people who graduate ... transition from being at one of the greatest intellectual hubs on the planet to returning to the rest of the world, or from the freedom of being a college

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college ... throughout elementary, middle and even high school. I am now one of them. The ... junior year of college. The workload has increased substantially, but I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  less of the really small things move over time, can store and let go of ... of the important words used in these classes.) 6.115 Even More Cool ... "words" that small computers can understand in the form of bits, and how

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  of Fine Arts - one mandatory to write the first paper, the second as a ... under the "Social Science" category of HASS). Ironically, at the end of ... sets, as I love the freedom of expression and the absence of a "right

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  the time of that statement, this would correspond to Wilt having slept ... the traditional style of lieder. This semester Dr. Elena Ruehr, who has the greatest Michigan accent of all time, chose to teach the class such

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  super tired at the end of the day and usually just went to bed, but i ... ="600"] i learned the "stretch and squash" principle of animation by ... i'm just so proud of it (ignore the bad camera work though) [caption

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  of the year frenzy when finals come rolling out, and everyone was too ... , and you no longer feel like the youngest part of the MIT community ... -filled winter break and fantastic first week of IAP. Over my winter break, I was

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ritual & Ceremony I'll be out of contact the next two weeks as I celebrate a big event.

  

  's exciting, but at the same time, there's a bit of anxiety. For me, the anxiety ... Just as you all have been preparing for one of life's biggest rituals ... another of life's big rituals: getting married. Tomorrow, I will marry an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  A lot of people at MIT were probably seen as the “smart” friend in ... ’ve found myself in amongst my MIT group of friends: Namely, I am the “dumb ... classes–whether it’s the number of classes they take, the difficulty of said

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  such bill working its way through both houses of the Congress right now ... Bill 968, the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) are corresponding versions of a bill ... latest battle in a war which began when the Internet began an age of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  ’ve seen the encyclopedia of an events list that we all got for CPW ... were some of the few things that I actually attended after finding it in ... and did everything spur-of-the-moment. Thursday night, rather than walk

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  's hardships and stupidities were swept away from my little corner of the ... other similarly great pains of the human experience. Anyway, here comes the sentence you've all been waiting for: life is full of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  first time. Tonight, I'll be playing board games in Next with some of the ... trailers are right in front of Medical, and the line went in front of and ... long all day. Maybe it's because the tests of the five thousand or so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  one of the prompts i answered, when i applied to be a blogger (and this year's apps are open) was "when was the first time you really felt ... years, thinking about not only the first time, but when i felt like a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  his very first documentary. Of course, I would have loved his ... taking a look at it. Here’s the statement. But I think one of the best things about MIT is that we are not part of the common application, which

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  of floorpi's games of spirit island. the first few games didn't have a ... 've[/annotation] known cj for 3.5 years now. though the first 6 months it was very much not ... really got to know [annotation note="cj: the amount of times i am mentioned

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023