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• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  means that I also am forced to get up early every day when his alarm goes ... 'm going to do the best that I've ever done at this school, and I'm super ... never have to take a specific Course 6 class ever again, which I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  my face and the Urinetown script for forcing them to study harder ... promise to the rational, logic-based region of my brain: a promise that I ... : "But what about going to college and trying new things? Also, Hack Punt

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  do funny things to your brain. ------------- On Friday, I got all ... in the dentist chair and looked at the window, trying to concentrate on ... will soon be able to eat nothing but baby food, and I have more work to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  it is. I found myself scrambling to take extra STEM classes or force a ... they come up, bile burning in the back of my throat, to painfully remind ... place at MIT. What good is it to be at the best school in the world if you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and ... the mechanical routine of a [annotation note="closer to a 9:45ish-to-5:15ish"]9-to-5[/annotation] or latent anxiety about applying to [annotation

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  the Boston Marathon bombings. It's also forcing me to write, an ... MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  easiest). Curiosity got the best of us so we turned to Google and our ... was the one pulling the launch string) so I didn’t get to see it happen in real time, but if my team mates are to be believed, the rocket went

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  call the other and put the phone on loudspeaker to spread the joy ... ways, I was extremely jealous of him. He gets to spend the next four ... then we headed back to our rooms. As we crossed Sixth Street the angelic

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Does the Khan Academy offer practice SATs?

  , and tailored feedback offered by the popular nonprofit learning website ... , on the Khan Academy website.  
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  , forces you to take up a lot. I don’t think I had time to breathe last ... just took them. because I knew I wanted to take them more than I cared ... that I wanted to take because I cared a lot about all of them.  although

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  it. We think it would have helped middle school Allan and Danny to read ... want to write today.  It started when we moved from Brooklyn, New York to Miami, Florida when we were 10. We started 5th grade in Miami at a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  “Other duties as assigned” is a concept well-known to admissions officers; it’s a catch-call term used by employers to encompass all the miscellaneous tasks an employee may be required to perform outside the scope of

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship writing for CityLab, then part of The Atlantic), moved to New Mexico to be ... and married him, and moved across the Atlantic to the other Cambridge to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  [/caption] Forcing myself to work on resolving my OX meant that I first had to confront ... 's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for ... your stomach clenches tighter and tighter, and you just want to scream

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  tired. Tired. Exhausted. Bushed. Ready to curl up into a ball and sleep ... , and this Saturday has been the first time I’ve really been able to ... I had trained myself to overcome last year. Instead, I sat in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  probably been said enough times to force this trite, self-conscious statement ... I remember the first time I went to a market in my hometown. It was ... this; it’s good!” “We have what you want, sir, trust us!” I turned to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  yard head start. I forced my body forward, head to the ground to hide ... Responses to comments: Sam said: Laura, I can't make my lab printer ... with photos of the various dorms distributed to incoming freshmen during

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  people prefer to try to force their way through it and only look for help ... -packed to make up for it! This will be easy to do, since I had a pretty jam ... decided to go skiing. It had snowed earlier in the week, but most of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  specifically for me, as soon as I saw the website I knew I had to apply ... asked students to share their reflections on their background, their weekend on campus, and where they hope to go next. Hear straight from them

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  transcript. hence, don't try to get a 100"]A, B, or C[/annotation]) or No ... would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to abuse your PNR experience: Go AWOL all semester and then just try to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024