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• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  static recently, I know. This is because we've been working hard behind the ... that "colleges are looking for." Absurd. And supposedly the girl is a ... is that I read it immediately following our pre-selection meeting, in

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  Finals season is well and officially upon us, but I couldn’t help but ... , right?” Which is really funny only because it accomplished his intention ... reflection. All the material is there- how you feel about your life, what

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  don't understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that ... eleven, not until you're almost twelve. That's the way it is.” working on ... about how he is exploring filmmaking because his finance internship made

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  The November Rule is the unspoken rule we have on campus that ... arbitrary, and a two-month period before you can date freshmen kind of is, but the reasoning behind it is crucial. as Nisha mentioned in her blog

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  fight with my advisor to get this to go through. I was ready. This is ... you ask to get a cookie she is more likely to say yes. My [annotation ... advisor is super chill, so he pretty much said “Cool, go ahead.” He let me

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  the Numbers What is it like to climb a 20-story building 22 times ... database. If the database is public, I'm done with this step! If it's private, I generally send a request to the owner to use it. If the data is

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  extracurriculars is hard. Don't take five classes unless you a) know you can handle ... pursue in the future! 3. I really, really like 6.08. 6.08 is my Intro to ... to trivia games. Here is one of the design exercises I made for the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  year. It is now my last chance to share these freshman thoughts with you ... is my past avatar, a more accurate depiction of me when I wrote this ... ’t scary. It is fascinating [editor's note: I've even declared a Brain and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  five classes or four classes plus a UROP is a reasonable workload for me ... have semester-long group projects. My French class is also an uncharacteristic amount of work. So what ended up looking like an average semester is

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  .091 = “three-oh-nine-one" There is no apparent logic to this. But when a group ... -oh-twelve” actually more efficient than “seven-oh-one-two”?   3. East Campus is ... /minors I am graduating with, and that is a learning moment for all the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  changes between high school and college is just the amount of freedom you have. I remember thinking in high school, “I hope the MIT curfew is not too early……… (there is no curfew in college :P),” you can be anywhere at

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  , I want to see who is interested in demo-ing a Fitbit for the remaining ... existence. I need to interject here that this post is not about the issues of ... person using their own data for their own delight. What follows is the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  exist, I can confirm). It is the one form of art where I am perfectly ... that music is one of the most relaxing things, ever. Whether you ... ’s a lot to relieve. There is something so calming about drowning out all

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  Dining is such a fancy word. Think of the different mental pictures between “I’m currently eating” and “I’m currently dining.” Dining is so ... two meals every day. Maseeh’s minimum freshman plan is the “Full 19

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  One of the academic differences between MIT and Cambridge is that ... consists of 1-3 students and a supervisor that is either a graduate student ... supervision is paired with some form of work. This work could consist of an

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  fabled season of fall has arrived in all of its deciduous glory and is ... sunshine, crackling fireplaces, and pie. Mmm, pie. Here is a picture of ... landscape. Look! Rita is a sloth! There’s no doubt that we are firmly

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... .   Truth is…I am Iron Man.  Well, not really.  Not yet.  But I could ... could even be your birthday today, in which case HAPPY BIRTHDAY!  Truth is

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  appreciation for the chocolate chip cookie (which we both think is TOTALLY ... I honestly do not believe that there is a baked good out there more ... ballgown is dangling from a ceiling pipe. It doesn't fit in my wardrobe; if I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  would be worrying about how much stuff there is still to do tonight." I ... !) ...but I discovered from trial of fire that six classes is A LOT - I took ... biology is a tremendously good idea and one of best decisions I made here

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  homeland. The reason for the commentary is a proposal to clamp down on binge ... age is 18. You can read about it here, but the basic story is: Proposals ... the consequences of alcohol abuse. Grace's article is a great read, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008