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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  limit, so I unfortunately failed the ASE for this class at the beginning ... gets rid of the 57 unit credit limit that second semester freshmen ... units of credit by the end of first semester, have completed 25% of your

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  laugh tracks, the special was expected to be a flop. The special turned ... issue will be necessary to combat it. I think this line from Garfinkle ... typical worry is that machines will become human-like; the more pressing

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  separate easily into spaghetti-like strings, it is done. The cheese will be melted, but because it was cooked under the foil it will not necessarily be ... food processor, too. (If you don’t chop the garlic it will be in chunks

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  Game, you lose. Rule 3: Loss must be announced. Basically, the objective ... - really, it is all going to be okay. Whether the admissions decisions are ... Have you ever heard of The Game? I've referenced it several times in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• FAQ / Interview

  What if my interview is waived?

  Counselors all over the world, we may not be able to arrange an interview for ... interview will be waived, and your application will not be adversely affected ... admissions committee will be aware that we were unable to offer you an
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  field that separates the two dorms, since it freaked me out being in such ... would knock the wind out of me without fail, which wasn't the most ... i had enough time to make it to the studio without being late. i was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  one, knowing that the action of choosing will change me in an ... leave MIT because it will be better for me? Am I ignoring why I chose MIT ... my skills, even if it opens the possibility of failing. It means

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  This is the way…to check your decisions

  

  the left. Admissions decisions will be available exclusively online ... your MyMIT account. There will be no interim screens, so you should be ... decisions.mit.edu. In order to verify that you will receive a decision on the

  • by The BlogChild
  • March 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  maybe some pattern drafting thrown in. What the class has ended up being ... . Just to be clear, the prospect of drawing a human body intimidates. the ... willing to fail, and predictably, my first attempt was sort of pathetic

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  .[/annotation] Or, well, [annotation note="it will not be"]it will be when I post this ... will be precooked, and very small. We're not ready to spend 8 hours ... 12-person feasts on random weekends in the middle of the semester (very

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  The Abominable Snowman If you can't see the Yeti, make the Yeti.

  

  we teamed up to roll the base which Dan insisted had to be at least as ... top of the base. After several failed attempts to lift the beast and ... possible. We build snowmen so large that they require the use of ramps, ice

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  -Boson particle, and whether or not the universe will eventually cave in on itself ... will be! We also covered everything from AP Physics C: Mechanics, that ... story that he failed at figuring out the bomb on purpose.] Anywho, we

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  ," or being mistaken about how much you will like something in the future ... During quarantine, I enrolled in The Science of Well-Being, a free ... 've learned, and I hope some of these reflections will be helpful for you

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  Rule itself, though I will also be detailing what the Rule is here. While the audience I am directly talking to is meant to be members of the MIT ... a bit vague, let me be perfectly clear: do not break the November Rule

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  flower fails to bloom because of the environment. But because it fails to ... A few Fridays ago, I sat down (as I normally do at the end of a long ... was a good-old three hours of minimal brain activity and the occasional

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  the test fail (the top right corner of the statue is reflecting light ... The week of Monday, 10/2 – Friday, 10/6 was very, very difficult. We ... the night before it was due), Danny had a CMS.100 essay, Allan had a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  blogs. The classes I took fall and spring as two blogs to be published at the end of the respective semesters, the programs I did over IAP to be published at the end of IAP, a blog on how I’m not graduating this year to be

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  feel like 5 tablespoons of butter, as opposed to 8, will still be plenty ... only kept it in the oven for a bit. So yeah, we probably will never make ... , watching it being made, watching animated food being made (particularly in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  idea of what being at MIT would be like. The previous summer, I ... reading the Princeton Companion to Mathematics; otherwise, your options will ... -minded, and don't be afraid to change your plans to fit the circumstances. For

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  that the conversation will be connecting about the specifics of the hobby ... note in the infinite symphony of the cosmos. And trust me, there will be ... settling?"]just being happy with where you’re at. [/annotation] On the other

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022