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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  seemed to have. This was further enforced by the fact that my community ... felt. To me a foreign language was and is more than just the translation ... language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  get pushed to the back of my mind during the school year. All my ... mornings, any inch of skin exposed to the air goes numb in minutes. But this ... friends is justified (people are less busy than during the semester, and

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  high school as much as you can, a ton of stuff is going to happen in the ... Bell "When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on ... , feel free to shoot me an email. I wish you all the best. Wake up

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  , bring your notes to school, and you can take the advanced standing exam ... work out for you, or it might not. But it IS much easier to take the AP ... , for example. Getting a 5 on the AP exam is not the same as passing the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  , encircled by the Andes mountains’ snow-capped peaks on one side and the vast ... and plagued nightly by the severe lack of central heating, about thirty ... , and wondered why they chose to go to the Southern Hemisphere during

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Oh The Things I’ve Seen Warning: Hold on to your socks

  

  , here is a complete listing of all the moving picture shows I’ve viewed in the last month. (Warning: Hold on to your socks) TV Shows: Southland ... ’s Love Got to Do With It? The Best Years of Our Lives Ray Celluloid Closet

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  mystical utopia described by the admissions blogs. IAP is a truly magical ... , blacksmithing, pistol, etc. That said, I'm finally getting back to the alleged ... I did get to spend the other half pondering my project and customizing

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  blogpost in an attempt to talk about it. What is 21E? I am not the first ... workload like? Frankly I think the work is as much as you want to put in ... not denote your success in the class. I put in 20+ hours a week to my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  devote himself fully to the start-up. And he's trying to get a freshman I know to join the team, too, at least for the summer. The company is ... it out. Basically, it is a super-easy way to synchronize files across

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  . Let me get this out of the way, first: I think this cover isn't great. I ... shame in sharing your work. Leave the pursuit of excellence to those who ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM4V_BV1Jkw To have fun in something you're good at is cool. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  you to your home, hold onto it. Let it get you through the homesickness ... Of all the things to happen in college, I never expected baseball to become the antidote to my homesickness. I’ve always been a fan of the St

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  you feel like you're not actually the right fit. To know that you have ... the most of your opportunity. So the next question is... how do you make ... they did get into MIT by some miracle-lightning-strikes-a-unicorn-and

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  is not enough to get you into any college or university, let alone MIT ... step to "solving the puzzle" is connecting the corners and the outside border. Once the puzzle is framed, the remaining pieces are easier to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  a scenario, all the dogs quickly learned to jump over the hoop ... , only the ones who subscribe to these predictions seem to be affected by ... actually destiny, and the reason they come to pass is because we believe in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  's going to be awesomeee. Since camp is free of cost, the other counselors ... ' :) This might sound familiar to those of you who have been reading the blogs ... fun. I'm lucky enough to be one of the CK 2010 counselors :) We

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  quick recap of how the semester's gone for me so far since I've wanted to ... need to get above a 75 (the C- cut off) to pass. 6.009 I will ... look forward to every class with excitement, mainly because I love the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  by the time you get to the end you’re different than you were at the ...  Normal People, and this short story is a predecessor to the novel, featuring ... . That sense of resignation—not even attempting to cross the abyss—Rooney is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thanks, man I'm feeling human again.

  

  best to get a noncompliant five-year-old ready for school. Not easy, even ... break. I drew this picture of the railway station. I couldn't get it to go ... account of my entire summer, but I have to stop to thank the people around

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  everyone else does, or you're the opposite and are convinced that everyone is ... I started writing a brief response to some of the comments on Chris ... , whatever. Anyway, I want to know - how hard is MIT? Because I keep hearing it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  classes. For the last class, I have to write a thesis proposal.. which is ... , being sucked out of my head by the big green muppet that is my final exam ... This is going to be an interesting week. For early action applicants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009