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• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  fast. I just finished the first draft of my manuscript a week ago, and I ... on campus. In March of 2020 I was impatient for REX.  I’m sitting in ... liked the house we already lived in, an old adobe building at the edge of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  have no idea what’s going on in 6.006 (Algorithms), and “The First Law of ... other life-related struggles on top of school still sucks. On Monday of ... Hello friends, As you can guess from the title of this post I am

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  friends-of-friends. Life felt like a movie, honestly, with a fast-paced plot ... on some turns while Jen maxed out at 4. We both had a median of 2 ... frequency (on a log scale, for better visibility) the number of words modified

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  sense, because the plot of the robot’s motion on the computer (distance ... out laundry bags. There are hundreds of companies on campus. Trust me ... exhaustive method. Complexity: O(n) where n=number of companies ii) Iterate

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  been what he calls “Zedvancements.” On top of the standard advancements ... absurd amount of people using it (as Vincent H. '23 can attest to), I’m on ... .021[/annotation] class ends on Wednesday. My grocery list features ingredients for

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  ’re fine. Most of the time, the factors are beyond your control, and it isn ... has to be perfect. Sure, quality beats quantity, but the quality of your ... early, write often, and prepare to throw most of your ideas away

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

    Are you doing something cool that should be featured on the blogs ... I talked with MIT undergrads who make YouTube videos! Read on to ... highs and lows of being an MIT student and everything that comes with that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  to start. They've got at least one whole year on you in terms of ... 's a twisted exercise to ultimately grade a person on one's mastery of ... Slam, a week-long, no-holds-barred celebration of poetry that's part

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  portrait of a person or place, a video on an issue, problem, or opinion, and ... large white tents on the Kresge lawn that obstructed a clear shot of the ... looking at all the features of Premiere Pro used to scare me, but starting

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Portraits of a Campus on Lockdown

  

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 14, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  had fabricated something out of nothing. I clung on to my friend because ... school demons are, in fact, gone because I overcame my fear of living on an ... look like I wasn't on the verge of exploding. Adjusting my dress so I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  all of the traffic. For months I brainstormed on how to take that ... 'm no expert on the parent side of this process. But I do know one thing ... , this post appeared on College Confidential: You know, I get sick of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  ! We got a lecture or two on the shape of the universe, and the Higgs ... : not personal growth and the importance of self-care, or how long one can survive on ramen and coffee before getting scurvy, but the mundane details

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  the story of one particular piece of art: the Story Wall. On its own ... stretch of blank tunnel wall on the east side of campus. Then they added ... super cool ways. Most people on campus have seen some of Borderline’s work

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  , or do the beds just kind of have the feature? The beds are ... friend. :-D] I know it must be kind of confusing to reconcile the fact that we're all apparently busy out of our heads with schoolwork and the fact

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  with him on the phone. All of this stuff was not great for my academic ... courses on the first day of class. :) After the lottery results are out ... noticed that not a lot of MIT people are on it, so the ratings aren

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  'm attending MIT. I've talked with many of you, either on the Discord or on ... car on top of the big dome. I like..do not know what else to tell you ... our mess-ups. Giving tours of MIT on the Minecraft server and talking

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  To my surprise, one of Marilee's quotes in my last entry about the role of Advanced Placement (AP) courses in college admissions turned out ... lot of kids to be able to do that and not force everybody to have all of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  cars acted when moving almost as fast as light, while ON TOP of many ... get on top of a very tall rock, and feeling very happy when you have ... game, just some fun problems on one piece of paper that one person could

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  sacrificed my best chapstick to the Copenhell gods. It fell out of my pocket on ... was the only person on someone else’s shoulders, looking at a sea of ... tattoo parlors. But everything else? I'd ridden on a lot of strangers

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022