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• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  talk about money all the time, in a spotless glass enclosure that overlooks a city but is not quite part of the city a thought: my capacity to ... the right times. right now i store pointers and not data--need to move

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  the office, I've already eaten paella and tortilla española, and I know the fastest way to work and what they mean by "la noche madrileña"- the night in Madrid.) So that's the one paragraph summary, but after that I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  This entry was inspired by a Washington Post article about how the use of a dishwasher is the last frontier in an immigrant household, an indication of complete Americanization. The dishwasher is a rare kitchen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  Shortly after 4PM ET we sent out the following email to the ... 't get it, I'm reposting the email in its entirey below. This is also good ... all documents that were sent by the November 1 deadline, and are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply for transfer admission if I haven’t completed all the recommended coursework?

  At the very least, we recommend you have one full year of both calculus (or higher level math courses, if you entered college with credit ... is admitted without calculus and physics at the college level
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I submit the MIT application with my QuestBridge application?

  MIT application. We feel that the QuestBridge application provides ... the QuestBridge Match but were not selected as a Finalist, you are still ... application portal. If you are not a Finalist, you must fill out the entire MIT
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  weekend was my last ever cpw, so i decided to revisit some of the same ... cappella concert, is an annual event where all the mit a cappella groups perform for around ten minutes each in high school i watched the ohms sing

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  The semester is over and I didn't go home for winter break because I have so much to do. In the last few months, my writing career got pushed to the back burner so I could survive my classes (four technicals, all

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  wrote about four-dimensional worms.  Specifically, the philosophical notion that people exist through time in the same way we do in space (for instance, younger you is a part of you in the same way your arm is). Hence

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  fire while trying to [annotation note="it was in the pot with water and ... how to cook eggs before 2020. However, when covid first hit in the ... couple of elaborate recipes that year, but for the most part I just spent

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  i started feeling the night before. i reported the symptoms on covid ... , from 11 am to noon. the other class i usually went to on thursdays, 6.033 Computer Systems Engineering, had canceled recitations for the day. it would

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  friday night was the beginning of teammate hunt, a puzzlehunt written with ... to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while ... say, okay, well, i'm going to the party. i'll be there for an hour, max

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  Note: Posting a lighthearted blog in the midst of everything that's happening right now is...uncomfortable, to say the least. Given the circumstances, I can't help but feel that the tone of this blog is strange and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  a brief respite finds me on the second floor of [annotation note ... shoulders sag against the railing behind me and throw my backpack to the ... outline the rest of my day, but a [annotation note="i've gotten the freshman

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  . This blog will be updated over the course of the week the things that are ... boring) but it is an accurate representation of my life at the end of the semester. [Sunday 5/19] The morning/early afternoon were very rainy

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  , I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan ... international dorm with very few other people coming from the U.S, etc. These will ... and I really want to give you guys everything I can, as far as the past

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  One of my favorite things about MIT might also be the most obvious: it’s in Boston! (well technically Cambridge, but you know, still the ... lot of intercollegiate events throughout the year that MIT students and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  ? Does she even go here? The answer is no, I don't go here, BUT I used to. I graduated in June 2014. Now I do astronomy research at the Max ... from The Other Side of college: one on where I live, one on what I do on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  cool - the process that brought me from my hometown, to getting accepted ... the place). The idea of MIT never became a reality to me until I actually moved here. Throughout all of high school, the idea of college as a

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  Alright, you and I both have some big decisions to make in the next ... the rest of your life. No pressure or anything. I will weigh in with how ... feels like I was a senior a decade ago. I was burning time on facebook the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009