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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  communicating a feeling to the observer. When your words on the page—nothing more ... : Playwrights’ Lab in the spring, where I’ll get to collaborate with a ... , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  a biology major to read ethnographies in which the author (an American anthropologist) claims to have gotten malaria in Africa because a rival sorcerer ... all the chairs in the microscope room are too short for me to see the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  Google Last year during freshman fall, I made a couple of guides to random ... sourced from a Google form I sent out to ec-discuss, East Campus's general ... EDIT: this post is back bois I didn't know Google had a shareable

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  your major, but everyone in the major still has to take them, so the ... feels dissociative to be in this class. I feel like biochem has a lot of ... /10B/10ENG has to take this class right now, so it's just 44 of us in a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  getting some information about the recipe to write a short intro blurb ... —most students choose to brush up on their culinary skills or enroll in a lower ... , issue here. In transitioning from a cookbook to a magazine, we still

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  a bench in Boston Common. After all, the heat index was 105 today ... ; it's computer-based, so you get your score right after you take the ... , since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  this in your account, you should give us a call and arrange to have your ... grades - try not to get a 'D'! If you do get a 'D' in ... to get a recommendation letter from a current MIT undergrad student? Do

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  classes you're allowed to take. If you have a 5 on both, you can get 9 units ... were a transfer student. But really, if you're applying to MIT while ... challenging yourself while having a great senior year. Because in a short while

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  once in a while I get questions about what you should pack before heading ... working to optimize what I carry, so this is a work-in-progress and (2) that ... to display two textbook PDF pages side-by-side, and has a battery life

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  probably not the best way to do so). I was a bit disappointed that Google had ... questions that require more than a quick Google search to answer correctly ... you’re a prefrosh reading this and thinking of living in Maseeh, don

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  -page article titled “[latex]\pi[/latex] is wrong!” in a mathematical ... support for a new circle constant. To get an idea of the scale of this, peek ... just people getting my attention in a groupchat or talking about the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  and is around to answer your questions as well, or a seminar, in which ... know, you get temped in a dorm, but if you don't like it, you can opt to ... seriously. I cannot stress this enough. Try to pick a place that fits you in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  your four-year-old cousin to study. (Seriously, Mom; isn't it a little ... -backpack-wielding sophomore. (That WAS a long time ago, wasn't it? You're free to imagine me ... - scrambling to get one last bit of partial credit before your TA comes and yanks

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  right from freshman year, I came up with a plan to help me to stay calm ... .01 exam. So on the back of my index card, after writing in all the last ... suddenly remember how to breathe. I got a 68 on that take-home exam. (Learn

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  in 1.5 hours gets their picture on the wall, a t-shirt, free hot dogs ... . Anybody interested, let's meet in the 23 at 3ish. You're welcome to try to ... accordingly and went for a jog in order to make myself hungry. A group of us

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  decisions are released online. But you still get a tube and/or big packet in ... - what's your story? Feel free to share in the form of pictures, haiku ... ). Looking forward to meeting you all in a few weeks! :)

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  short stories; I tend to story-build in such a way that I gravitate toward ... safekeeping upon arrival. (In theory, MIT returns your time to you upon ... friends will take up a large amount of your time, and it is very tempting to

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yoga The joys of physical education

  

  total of 8 Physical Education points. It was your responsibility to ... as soon as possible or you will place your graduation status in ... or modifications due to a disability, please notify the physical

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  The Arts—while also giving you a chance to settle into your dorm early ... ?” someone asked. According to Google, 6:00 pm. “How long does it take to get ... page, but otherwise we can move onwards to the next acronym in the first

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  be a nightmare. If you’re a senior, and you really want to get your ... a high thrill rollercoaster, just go onto google and type in, “MIT ... MORE to get all my decisions from everywhere, including MIT, in March. I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017