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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when I "grew up." Having been a computer nut since age four, I happily ... double major in both computer science and business. What a winning

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  Well, look at that, the dawn of a new Monday. Light is gracing the ... . Greg, a bit exasperated after confronting an erstwhile chicken meal ... 's a math recitation. Eh, I can't understand that guy's accent anyway

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston becomes Pottersville The MIT area is full of celebrations for the release of "Harry Potter and the…

  

  Boston/MIT-area parties. At Newtonville Books in Newton (a Green Line trip ... . Beginning at 9pm until the "magic" hour, the store will host a "a night of ... Newtonville Books' party so awesome? For one, there's going to be a musical

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  lights of Black Bemis and talked, which is a popular quiet-night activity ... - because they have stories, and they have useful advice, and a sense of history and perspective. Lex is one of our more active "cruft" (a term

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  check the blog server two or three times a day instead of their usual six ... to their houses for a weekend. Joe lives in Portland, which is "Maine ... well as a fantastic place to spend a weekend. So, I ended up taking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  recommendation from a coach, boss, or community/religious group mentor; a note explaining a special circumstance in your case. anonymous wrote, "I am a high ... -material like a letter stating why one wants to study there or the optional

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  I’m sitting in the quiet car of a Northeast Regional Amtrak train, writing a blog post for the first time in almost four years. Since I started ... round trip to do in a single day"]down and back[/annotation] when I first

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  a relationship rather than the thing itself. and of course, almost everyone who has been in a relationship agrees that maintenance is orders of ... which i’ve listened to a lot over the past few weeks. i’m getting into

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  Over the summer, I’ve centered on a fear that I have in graduate ... : “Wow, that was a terrible paper. The writing was bad, the methods made no ... have opinions, in the area I decide to research. In A Guide for the Young

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  imagining bit is a lot more fun than the...actual taking of them, but I love ... programming exercises and larger group programming projects. This is a class ... requirements and things and also I really want to take it because it's a good

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  make this post well before the new year actually came around, a short ... around for two weeks swatting at mosquitoes and eating a lot of food ... Nisha of the present, I thought that a status update might be appropriate

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  these thoughts can help, even a little bit. As you submit your first MIT ... year, people feel like either “a shit” or “the shit.” But the first year at MIT is a great equalizer. If you fall under either of the categories

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  Working for Veterans Affairs It’s 7am on a Tuesday, and I need to get up in 3 alarm snoozes. There’s a two-step strategy to this: first, say a really bad word to activate the limbic system of the brain (science

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  screen, stifles a yawn* What I'm actually doing is a wild variety of projects and whatnot. This is a new phenomenon for me: I had a bit of an ... semesters, and felt like I had squandered a block of time I could have spent

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  from a while back) Oy! Welcome to the much-belated “what I’m doing this ... /weekend (maybe both, I’ve got a lot of work to do this weekend). Just kidding ... “ptooie” because I don’t have a smartphone and I think data plans are a rip

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  a hotel in Portland Oregon absolutely surrounded by prefrosh. Why am I ... not a Brown or Yale admissions blog, I probably won't be blogging about ... memories. I don't know about you guys, but I attend a freaking ton of these

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  . By the time you read this, I'll have been home for over a week - but as ... , everything has. Including me. A lot can happen in a semester, especially a ... . People talk a lot about the "transition" from high school to MIT. But the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  imagination. I awoke with a jerk. Finding that the weather report was calling for an inch of rain and a thunderstorm in the White Mountains, Joe '08 and I decided that not hiking would be a great idea. Yet, this day, more

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  films of all time: Sneakers. I've got a week's worth of questions to catch up on. I've been writing this entry for a while now and am less than ... goes part 1: Random questions Akash asked a common question: "Is it true

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  to get a recommendation letter from a current MIT undergrad student? Do you remember specifically (or can you imagine) admitting anyone... (a) with a 3.5 gpa (including several B's in math/science), (b) without

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006