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• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  , except i suppose they’re also allowed to be in the office. but when you ... transition from being at one of the greatest intellectual hubs on the planet to returning to the rest of the world, or from the freedom of being a college

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  anyway.  That’s the feeling I want to be chasing, not perfection, but ... going to be an end date to the time that I would spend in cramped ... ’s been difficult to disconnect because everything feels close to being the

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  first application of bleach to not touch the lightened section, but I got ... stories from anyone willing to share them. Cheers to everyone who ... day in middle school. Most of the time, my mom would take me to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  not be able to find a room based on its room number. CJ: Truly an ... out the whole MBTA path, which turned out to be completely unnecessary ... , “we’re going to be using this column for the image alt text when we make

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  right across the street from my dorm. So I will miss being able to quickly ... Climbing that I failed to wake up for. I ended up going to see a talk by the ...   Hi. Meet my Google Calendar, the metronome to which my life

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  forbidden hint) to be taking pictures. For example, during the GBIS A ... which I’d love to be a part of), to snap a picture. During the ... .. I laughed to the point of tears (I think you had to be there

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  . I had been on the lookout for other options, and ETH seemed to be the ... credits to transfer over, but it'll be work on our end to petition for those ... units than at MIT. Generally, it should work out to be about the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  At the end of last year, I transferred from Burton 2 to Burton 1, and ... cleaning party. People will be talking about the pre-roomwarming party of '08 ... seemed like it'd be a little easier to sleep under. Ready to see the final

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  will be the biggest injustice to her legacy yet. I've been going through ... all the time and I will continue to say it again but MIT has truly ... included. By the middle of November, that number dropped to 2. Being single

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  brain because I've had no opportunity refused to create the opportunity to ... scary and a lot to ask of a teen whose brain is not yet fully developed and won't be for a while. I did not submit any kind of portfolio, but I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  . I came to MIT wanting to be a mechanical engineer. I love building ... SEMESTER MIT GRADES ARE THE SAME. That's right, you heard me, everybody will ... FIRST SEMESTER TRANSCRIPT The other side to that is that you can't get an

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  please try not to worry about them (i.e. promise me that you will stay off ... perfect applicant—you are not, and you do not need to be. Rather, essays can ... obstacles3. Remember that you are applying to be part of a student body, not

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  that I'm not who I used to be. For a while in the middle of MIT, I felt ... I can be good at it when I have the right environment to help me ... manage than it used to be. I went to therapy regularly during the last year

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  examiners, who are an anonymous group who set the questions to be examined at ... other. Students do not apply directly to the university, but rather to ... supervision system is considered to be the highlight of the Cambridge

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  . also, the first week was slated to be virtual. I'd leave the States on June 15th, do the training week in-person, and possibly be able to travel ... situation would last, though. thus, the initial deadline of May 15th had to be

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  recitations to go to, so I decided, being the music lover that I am, to head over to Baker House to hear the wonderful sounds a piano can make on a ... . The answer: a loud and resounding thud. EPIC FAIL!!!! But I'm being

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  taught me 101 reasons not to be a math major, while Sarah Tabacco and 5 ... myself. Had I not taken the advanced standing exam for 18.03, I might be ... them would now be able to go into any freshman class and get the same

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  . MIT is likely not the best place to be if you know that writing is your ... find when you read between the lines.     Visual Arts To be ... yet to be indoctrinated into the Institute's habit of numbering

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  will be presenting writing as their own that they did not produce. To be ... GPT is not only acceptable to you but is integrated into the subject, and ... adequately prepared them to be effective communicators.[1] It may be, in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  about not succumbing to stress as the semester gets progressively harder ... about why sophomore fall is such a grind. We came to the conclusion that ... "]HASS[/annotation] ones, so my workload isn't as bad as it could be, but I'm struggling to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020