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• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  have plans to. I’m also not the kind of person to have new year ... survivalist, religiously fanatic parents, and her struggles of leaving them to ... itself around the shape of trauma, of knowing the patterns well enough to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  perspective to help you make sense of the decision that, though it won't make or ... you just want to see me caption photos of people as though they were ... years of MIT? It is strange to walk into a building and find out that it

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  ’t blagged since the fall semester started due to trying to get on top of ... doubtless, many of you applying to basically anything ever have had it asked ... better, and on and on. To answer these kinds of questions, you first have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  . So, I thought I'd post a few up here. To spare you the trouble of ... 't offered at my school. Does that eliminate my chances of being accepted to ... understand the goal of the admissions committee: they want to pick 1,000 kids

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to ... astronomy conference, then flew back to Boston (I got the results of my x ... and was full of ambitions to write all about my time in China. I guess I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  students need to take 8 Humanities Classes total, of which, 2 have to be ... . You’ve been lied to by the [annotation note="A shocking amount of the ... [/annotation].. The Golden Age of Piracy was from the 1650s to the 1730s, while the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  -PART LIST OF EXCEPTIONS TO THE RIDICULOUSLY SIMPLIFIED SCHEDULE ABOVE (Numbers ... 've linked to class descriptions for all of these.) 1) Math. Many of you will ... through to the end of IAP. A few of you will have already finished the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  to please follow your school policy if possible. However, your offer of ... modifications to, or cancellations of, their respective final exams. We have ... warrant, so you should check back there as things continue to develop. Of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  part of the reason why it's been so hard to write about what's been going ... to spend a whole week studying. i kinda wished both of my finals were ... windows, and an urge to investigate every square inch of my bed. two Fixing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  I wrote to a few of my friends, but I hope you find the material ... been negligent of them. It’s interesting to note that a fair number of ... continued to hone his development skills since then, working on a plethora of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  're forced to collaborate with others and kind of work through this hardship ... at all representative of everything MIT has to offer nor is it the only ... for physics help, and he ended up getting out of bed, walking to my dorm

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  alone. i couldn’t find the motivation to get out of bed that morning ... myself on the ground floor of the building, pretending to be lost in the ... talk to people. then i watch an episode of his dark materials with some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  side of the bed, by the window, and I mention to him and Brenda that I ... ’m one of them yet. To follow this discussion, Brenda raises a thought ... distance. Google maps told me it would take 40 minutes if I wanted to walk

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  , so i will try to give a concise summary based on my understanding of the topic and link you to some of the articles i’ve read  space in sf ... wealthy, tenants. finally, the movement of tech companies to the bay area

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  students about MIT. The goal of these presentations is to demystify the ... about my journey, and I thought I'd share some of them with you all to see ... direct to LAX. I spent most of the flight napping and reading back issues

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  to go, since I took three years of it in high school, every year in ... Julie and Diane. He proceeded to talk about how he spent a lot of time ... 'm really grateful for this change of pace compared to the very fast and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  mutiny. I forced everyone in the car to listen to the entirety of The Life ... friend, Levi observes that:  “He did not belong to that species of persons ... , which were a quarter of the way to their full autumnal colors. Maybe I

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  I can't wait to write one of those class tier list blogs before I ... this kind of stuff, I wanted to appreciate hardware. It helped that a ... the lines of "a small computer" or "a single chip designed to do things

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  to many of you. But it's true) Being a nerd, I did nerd things. I read ... Physics of Baseball. Also, I went to nerd camp. In 1998, when I was about ... , camp. "Talent Development" turned out to mean "do a lot of really cool

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  decisions were just recently released. First of all, congratulations to all ... school, we were only allowed to send one applicant to each of the programs. My high school puts out a newsletter to the parents with all kinds of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007