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• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  ; Sophomore Fall: All Will Be Well (The Gabe Dixon Band) Dance With My Father ... that often, I hum the title couplet (all will be well / you can ask me ... long gone. I was reflecting on this the other day as I happened to be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  awesome. I'm sure the text will be transcribed at some point, and I'll link ... I've failed you in the photo department. But I'll try to describe the ... will anyone have to stand up here and welcome the first female president

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  in the Burton Conner TV room, but after an hour of failing to get the ... advantage of being twins! Hopefully sometime over the summer, when we have ... about sums it up! We just got settled down into the semester, and will

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  the MIT early decision would be released. I ate all of them. They didn’t help. I’d always thought that I was the perfect fit for MIT, being the ... at MIT, and thus I made it my goal to transfer there by the end of the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  the infallible power of mathematics. MatPat would surely be proud. But ... failed me! But why? Linear algebra to the… rescue? TL;DR, rotations in 3D ... times to achieve the desired orientation. There must be something else

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  being a super great idea because I ended up really, really loving the ... Oxenfree and Ori and the Will of the Wisps. Doing these classes also helped ... and pay, where Google was the end goal that I failed to reach. It took

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  experience, we realized how potentially toxic the idea of a dream school can be ... not regret. The applying-to-college process can be really hard. It was ... be so lucky to have you. Or you will take a gap year. Or you will go to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  either choose a career or a family and failing to choose will only lead to ... number may be attributed to the fact that a similar percentage of ... , making them more interesting and adaptable. Can't the same be true of life

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  Kalamazoo College. You may also be interested in the other stories from The ... transfer. "He spent the whole tour talking to me about what he didn't like ... School who will attend Brown University in the fall, recalls a tour of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage with the ... gig, to be honest. Your application will be read by a small committee ... answer the kinds of questions that might be useful for identifying their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  to the student body. Once I could be myself publicly, I was happy for ... default to “bad” just to be safe), I might as well add some pictures of the ... in with my parents. About a month ago I decided to go back home for the

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  of them have in common though are the scale and weight of the exams. Another non-trivial difference between academics at Cambridge and MIT is the ... of thought. Throughout the semester you'll take 1-3 tests + final and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  it really came true. I never expected to be the person who I am now ... then slipped into the opposite problem of being too relaxed ... . My two passions were basketball and programming. I was on the Varsity

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  into the CPW live chat already know, your hosts will be contacting you ... be :) If you've checked out the CPW website, you will have noticed a ... already knew, but for many of you, that won't be the case. It's not a bad

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  thought that it would be more of the same; but I couldn’t not go, for it ... where the lowest level of a class will still challenge you and teach you ... give to your job, and how much will you want to? I wonder if I’ve failed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  was supposed to be may 31, but because of the situation, we could (again ... getting sick of dining hall food, or getting used to it. i will be eating ... lightness of being. two prefrosh got my book. they emailed me within the past

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  the majority of the conversation will be focused on you, but do take ... will reach out to you using the contact information provided on your ... the conversation to be organic. The interview is a chance to talk more

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  number of...other things. Over the course of the next four days, I will be ... to kill the time.[/annotation] The plan is as follows: I will be ... river! please excuse the reflection of my hands; you will be seeing a lot

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Events

  He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named Returns Butterless popcorn and a little magic.

  

  Pending recovery from my illness, in a few hours, I will board a bus ... . Diana boarding the "Knight Bus" (ie the Big Yellow Bus) with her ticket. Aboard the bus. Rocking the 3D Glasses. After the movie was over, we

  • by Bryan
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  failing to know how the people around you are really doing. In the past few ... Life is busy at MIT. Most of the time, our schedules and motivation ... the past few months, I feel like we’ve really gotten to know each other

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017