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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  sunburn of the I-wonder-how-I-managed-to-NOT-get-skin-cancer variety. Well ... 'll be your first MIT math class but you have to start somewhere. And trust ... 's taking the same classes, and you're bound to find pset partners without

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  every stop on the T without leaving. The T is central to the college ... first-year class went to the aquarium. On our way back, past midnight, we ... terms to describe his life while my roommate repeatedly forgot to hold on

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  stretch of studying, is to sprawl out on the sofa and settle into some good ... ’ll try to keep it relatively spoiler free, but I make no promises about run-on ... baby and people are always saying things to it like, “you have your

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

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

  

  Cambridge, on foot or on bike, go to class and cafés, talk to friends and ... [annotation note="I used Google sheets to record data and Python (numpy, pandas ... early on and once later on. I don't feel like I have enough data to make

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  simple: that getting off social media on your own, reducing social media ... with social media themselves knows exactly how to get off every time they ... changing their mind on something and then being reluctant to change their

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  bearing on your application, as ~50% of our admits end up majoring in ... to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what ... with: "on the same note, should we have October scores rushed to MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Ups and Downs Currently down.

  

  take a different perspective on this problem. I'm going to see this ... 's how I'm planning on approaching it anyway. In other news, I've fallen ... Not gonna lie, my happy-to-sad ratio is a little sad-heavy at the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  simply memorize how to do the problems (@me on the first midterm). CMS.840 ... really cool, and I’m glad that I get to work on something so pertinent to ... . As it happens, they turned out to be right. Listen to your elders, kids

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  /22/2024] Today, sorbet made me think about how important it is to keep going. Fruit ... up, move the fruit around with a utensil to get some air and space to ... the food processor, and you turn it back on. And you start to worry a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  did this.) It is okay to still include it on your application. (I did ... if I don't get in, I am going to regret not working harder on this ... your essays fit word limits, it can be very helpful to get a second

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  doing is trying to do is get through it. Survive, focus on your studies ... school activities? If you were to cross off all of the people on your list ... classmates and get dinner with people in your hall/in your club, and with how

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  make your flight. Even though it’s rush hour, the Silver Line to the ... don’t have any carry-ons, the guard who is supposed to simply check to see whether your ID matches the name on your boarding pass will feel it

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  this blog, shoot me an e-mail and I will try to get it answered in a Q ... ...Referring to the application fee:“Full name of the applicant must be on the money ... make sure that YOUR name appears on the money order! Bugs Bunny, Santa

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  nerds (yuck!) To be fair, this depends on your definition of nerd ... is really like. You’ll get to stay in a college dorm, go to college ... even how to write the Greek letters that filled the board. Let’s say

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  , remember that you don’t have to know what to do on your own; the people ... noodle I shift my weight to dodge the blow... but then I’m on the ground. I ... thing is that I was so careful this ENTIRE summer to not get injured, but

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  very beginning, since as time goes on and you get to know your brothers ... . I'm just trying to be honest. 2. When I explain what goes on in ... 21 students (and I'm not planning on moving out anytime soon). Not to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  hobbling around on crutches, and didn't get to take the swim test with your ... plausible, not because you didn't know how to swim but because your ankle was ... occurs to you that breaking your leg could actually prevent you from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  children is so rare on a college campus that it's refreshing to see them dancing to kids' tunes. I like to come for the crafts and get stuck at a ... in July. If you're into modern music, art, or dance, and want to see a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  right, mom. Getting sick really does suck.) To end on a positive note ... – I’m back on my feet now! (Hooray for modern medicine!) Now allow me to ... severe enough that I decided to get it checked out at MIT Urgent Care. I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  parts of your personality, because you're going to get enough of the ... the first year you're doing it on Kickstarter? Yeah. In the beginning it ... home in LA, we were talking about how we wanted to one-up it. The next

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014