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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  want to also talk a little about my experience being Course 18 and how it ... subject of this blog post. It’s important to note that there are significant ... used to have the sense that I could learn anything I wanted as fast as I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  . Obviously my response is directed to parents, but I thought it was important enough to post it here as well: As with most of my posts in the parents ... want to, or simply because you think it will get you into college

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  conclusion. I will keep talking to strangers, because I can’t help it and I ... to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  to look at the one-track mind I'd developed and wonder if it'd be ... resolved to take it one day at a time. And I know it's silly, but watching ... background was enough to clear my head. I do know nothing can really prepare

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  weeks of “pause so the audience can laugh” in rehearsal, it was nice to ... have to use my body and voice to convey how I’m feeling (which is angry ... hands? My voice sounds the same no matter what I try to do with it. My

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick update A short entry, a quick link, and I become Seth Cohen.

  

  In honor of my trip to the OC, Ben made this for me: And the link of the day: The Art of Problem Solving (more on this next entry) A longer update soon...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Miscellaneous Admissions Office updates.

  

  A few quick things today: We have admitted 16 transfer students for ... 're waiting for a reply. Ditto on the comments/Questions Omnibus. It's still quite busy here!It is Finals Week for students at MIT. Good luck, everyone

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  how to write code quickly. isn’t it a biological miracle how you can go ... money from all the canceled lunch orders and use it to buy more class swag ... you were a student in web.lab 2020, but you never had to use this stuff

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  importance to people, but for me, I've always used it as a way to ground myself ... anyone except my family, it was clear that I loved to read. English became ... the IAP calligraphy course, I thought to myself, I like art, but it

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  -front about it as well. Without further ado, here is a recipe to make yourself ... /computer science"]Course 6[/annotation]class. I don't have much to say about it—it ... class for a while, being able to write something and actually see its

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  asked if I could wait for them, so I kept watch on our tour as it quickly made its way down the hall. The group quickly became a meandering blob ... cell phone. Luckily, the boys used their cell phone networking magic to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  , theater arts, or languages. Each semester, it's nice to take a step back from the ... use all that to better inform how I approach my work within Course 6 ... microcontrollers. You can never escape those hardy Arduinos! One afternoon, I quickly

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  ten) from friends and family, I came to my senses. “It’s only six weeks ... completed our robot and not to brag, but it was really good. However, there ... class wouldn’t change one bit. From learning how to use the machines in

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  , confident as you please. I tend to solve problems quickly, so the extreme time ... Hall freshman physicist. If you enjoy integrating you can try out some ... type of math. Maybe it’s the physicist in me. So when I heard that MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  schedule regular times to see my friends, weekly or biweekly. put it in google calendar. (toons has rehearsal 2x a week) check in with my ... higher than 0%. be ok with saying no to things sometimes. it's ok

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Updates CPW, admitted students parties, the "telethon," and financial aid.

  

  can make it! CPW registration is available from your MyMIT portal, in ... A few quick notes for the Class of 2010... The deadline for ... ! And, don't worry, if for whatever reason you don't get to talk to an MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline & Taking Questions Advice for RA applicants; I'll answer questions Thursday.

  

  to the deadline, the longer it will take our records office to process and for it to appear on your Application Tracking. Our records office is ... quick vacation to celebrate the new year (and then starting the regular

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  how we can use those traces to understand the history of life on Earth ... designed so that it can easily double with other majors. I think I’m the only ... , but some of my friends work on different topics like using magnetism to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus Activities What to do while not learning.

  

  't have tons of time to do fun stuff. I was digging around on my external ... challenge would be a fun activity to partake in. Not familiar with the gallon challenge? Here are the rules: 1) You have one hour to drink a gallon of milk

  • by Snively '11
  • September 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  us to ourselves? Or maybe, if you fall in love this quickly, can you ... people refer to it – “The-one-with-the-guns-instead-of-swords” or “The-one ... significance and has a darkness about it that seems unfitting to the original

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011