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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  , several friends and I headed over to Harvard Square (about ten minutes away by bus) and went to L.A. Burdick, a store known for its delicious ... , post-6.046 exam. I know that before I came to MIT, my impression of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  was unheard of for me to struggle, or be wrong, or, even worse, fail ... my body. I felt empty, but I knew it wouldn’t be long before sorrow ... to walk through. In my head was a mix of regret, anger, sadness

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  soon as possible, start your own life, and not be told when to go to bed and what not to eat... well, whatever the reason, college is a way to ... or class ranks or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  familiar pieces being sung by my friends: Davie '12 was Aeneas (I used to be ... the great fortune to be an MIT Arts Scholar I attended four EXCELLENT ... 17th century English operas that was meant to be sung through from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  science" and "Maybe it's ok to be this way").  You can see the ... think and comment publicly on science and technology, i.e. to be a public ... 's posts, I wanted to share this reddit post by David B. '11, about his

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  Trivia: In Mandarin blogs, being first to comment is to get the "tou ... practice that is meant to bring good luck which entails being the first to ... compromising your coursework. You're probably used to being a straight A student

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  me? How are you gonna tell me I'm just going to need to be an adult for ... , because it is okay, and things will be okay, but it's hard to know things will be okay when I'm not...in the okay. But then I think back to where

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  can be fun, but it is hard to find a way to balance everything. The good ... easier way to put that. I wrote about my first semester in my post called ... 't have anything to do, I felt guilty - like I should be doing work or

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  driven/flown a long way to come to a meeting, I hope it was worth the long ... do you mean by an extra resume?" With regard to the community service ... from nepal. being an international applicant,i had made my mind to take

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  purpose, as required by different schools, tends to be around 300 to 1000 ... challenged — all undergrads going on to a grad program will be challenged, no ... , I have wanted to be a librarian. Okay ... it's clear, it's direct, it

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  over Killian Court, to read The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster, an apocalyptic sci-fi that seemed way too awesome to be homework but, amazingly, was. By the end of the story I had inched halfway around the table to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  of street cred too!). *By the way, I copied and pasted part of this ... likelihood, helped convinced about 15% of our class to matriculate by various ... punchline is that to call myself gratuitously lucky would be understating the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  .  Unfortunately, that seems unlikely to be the case. Last month, the College Board ... expect this to be a one-year suspension of our usual requirements, but will ... ):   we are expanding the number of tests that can be used to [annotation

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  what it’s like to be lost in MIT. You’ll never be able to look at the ... . You’ll never again be able to look at MIT wide-eyed and open-armed, the way a child experiences nature in constant wonder, because to them

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  you on campus. We get to find out which of you we'll be host ... 'll finally get to meet you in person. For those of you coming to CPW - be ... /bag you bring to CPW has a little extra room. You're definitely going to be

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  ) I didn't know there was a seminar on masculinity. To be fair, by the ... meetings. It's a great way to start off the week. How are your Mondays? Mine ... the test. In addition, Mr Kennedy kindly agreed to be my reference for

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  . I’ve figured out that I basically won’t be able to play this season ... fight tooth and nail made me insanely proud. I'm happy to be part of a ... . The season is flying by, and we’ve played a whopping total of 18 games

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  , but I'd rather blame Google Maps for getting me lost on the way to my ... played Guitar Hero, this person must be, by far, the coolest person at MIT ... might not be up to my full blogging potential. I actually hope that the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  math and science competitions is "absolutely essential" to be accepted to ... " to be accepted to MIT, and I can tell you for sure that the majority of ... way. Moreover, it's a pretty big understatement to say that MIT has a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  or Senior year. The topic must be relevant to your major, but can be ... must be completed by the end of your senior year and it will be permanently archived by the MIT Libraries. I did a little bit of web surfing to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008