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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  subject of this blog post. It’s important to note that there are significant ... terms with my limits in the past 2.5 years of school. One thing I want to ... of what made me want to come to MIT, but I don’t think they were

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  -time instead of Mocha was difficult and took quite a long time to make; I started ... felt motivated by Mocha, and since I felt like I'd lost a lot of time to ... the team full-time. I wanted to be a part of a team that challenged me

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  forced two-day layover to break up my sets of flights. While much sunnier ... Thanks to a continuation of computer problems, I was without a ... proved how poorly I play Call of Duty) and then went up to Cambridge for

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  , you can go online to the game website and enter the serial number of the ... from Peru after 4 days working to clear the yard of bricks, hills, and ... by the locals. After a week of this, we went to Lima and Cuzco for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  personal yet protective of my friends' and family's privacy, and I refused to ... perfectionism by now. MIT has forced me to become much more comfortable with ... writing would be to ride the high of my question-answering experience and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  one of the shores. The river is 200 yards wide, so you would need to ... a pool that was deep enough that I would be forced to actually swim ... hard. I took the walk of shame to the table and signed up for a swim

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  , where I had a line of duties waiting for me. My first duty was to take care of myself. I went to mental health & counseling at 10am, and I ... website, and it made me super happy, even though I have my own bundle of joy

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  Hampshire, to camp outside of the MITOC (MIT Outdoors Club) Camelot Cabin.  I ... you can sit and watch the stars.  Five of us went to follow him on a ... pictures of the sky. Finally, we started our hike back to camp.  However, we

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  you could see the stream of numbers you needed to sum up one at a time ... . In fact, you’d only need to keep track of one thing, the running sum ... 3”, which usually amounts to one line of code. Think about how you

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  of classes I'm forced to. Basically, it doesn't seem worth it to me to ... yourself up in your room trying to get a 100% in every one of the 16 AP ... these past three years - to start up a high school chapter of Amnesty

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  solace and peace of mind in being able to ask questions in smaller groups ... beneficial to me for the most part. So during the summer before MIT, one of ... nod off thanks to Zoom Fatigue/Overload/I’m tired of it, but I really

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  multiple times a day. It started out with small jogs to the museum of science ... spent a couple of hours in the morning waiting to be seen by the doctor ... moved off campus. More on that another time. We went up to one of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  from our floor lounge to the homepage of the admissions website and got ... deleted every piece of media I'd ever uploaded to the blogs. The big wheel ... intermediate steps of 50k, 50mi, and 100k, skipping straight to a 100 mile ultra

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  it’s hard to take advantage of all the opportunities. It ... whose stories really changed my life. Every so often I google them to see what they're up to. I have yet to be disappointed. 8. Some of them

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  -growing infestation, one rat is chosen out of the many scurrying about campus to be ... . But neither of these were American animals. We turned to Mr. Hornaday ... revealed: (from the official Brass Rat website) "The focus of the Class Shank

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  of the fall semester, that offers a chance to meet every chapter ... since I was seven years old, the idea of getting to know new people was ... week, I arrived on campus full of that fear, which quickly seemed to be

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  to hide from us and our pursuit of content. And we promise to serve you ... test ever could. Of course you need good scores and good grades to get ... 'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind

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

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  the tippity top of Vermont and 10 hours back to arrive back home on a ... to some friends. I forwarded that email over to some of my friends ... to Nova Scotia To see the total eclipse of the sun

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  , and I decided to wait until now instead of posting it in June - this ... their MIT experiences. I'm sure some of you will be able to relate to the ... the road, and (b) because I've been longing to post this picture of him

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  documentaries. More frequently, I force myself out of my room to go wander around ... IAP yet, and I couldn't think of a single unified topic to write about, I decided to answer a bunch of questions from the blogger bot that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019