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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  to ensure that you will never fail because you spent too much time on a ... failed to reach the intended destination, i.e., the correct answer.) 4. I ... Comp. Sci.,” etc. Math tends to be the all-purpose flour in MIT

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  think one of the most important things at MIT is not learning to be ... busy. I didn't use to think I was the kind of person who liked being ... will take more than one day to do it. However, that's not to say I don

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  is rising, the semester's winding up. I'm trying to wind down (not that ... not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my ... to my roommate, "It's so... gray!" She's from the northwest corner of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  disregard it. Similarly, the ON/OFF switch will not clearly be labelled as ... considered ourselves to be a powerful culture. dear frosh: here are the things ... say no to things too. Why selection bias is the most powerful force in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  of other people around the world, and Be comfortable with, or willing ... tell compelling stories that will keep people coming back to the blog ... -Answer (250 words or less each) Describe why you want to be an admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  the same. and the yearning to be in-place will forever stay. i will ... , what to expect of it, how i was failing at expecting and on the other ... incredibly hard to leave MIT, if not the first year, then the second. it is a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... , I thought I knew how to handle life. In fact, I had a clear vision in mind of what I wanted to do. I expected to learn more about the field I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  , endless categories, and I want to fill them all with my insights on The MIT ... most versatile words in the MIT vernacular, if not in the recorded ... went on during IAP." noun -- the location of one's UROP "I'm on my way to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  will be held against us in the admissions process." Not at all. Many ... will explain my activities at the centre without me having to write about ... is read by multiple people, it goes to committee where it will be seen

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  ones I will notice. I found out yesterday that I'll get to be a blogger ... , here in my Notes app on the side of the highway. Well, so be it; I will ... , wiped blank by the ten-hour road trip, who will be born for real in the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  that is not the case for everyone), so we didn’t feel any pressure to ... us they really wanted us to be home for the [annotation note="Our parents, not having grown up in the US nor gone to college, don’t fully

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  random leaves ended up in this picture. It’s really cool to see the wind ... up on work/sleep/fun/etc. Personally, I seized the opportunity to travel to New York, wander around the city, meet up with friends from high

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Not a Real Entry I wrote it in the imaginary plane.

  

  permission. *Should the winner be unable to come to CPW, an alternative prize will be arranged. Cryptic Hint With Bad Wordplay: The frosting does not mix with apples, nor is it the color that it appears to be.

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 10, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  know I'm in the UK, but it's still surprising when I go to play a song ... contributing to the "loud unrestrained American" stereotype, so I did a bit of ... my friends at home and I heard some cursing in the lab, so it might be

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  seriously in the professional world, I had to be literally serious and kind of ... some independent video production on the side. Then I came “back home” to ... THE PAST 15 YEARS. Honestly, what is there to catch up on? The catching

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  did not anticipate teaching kids to be the cause of my downfall. I used ... would be blasphemous to call a Welsh entity English, but using the ... of New Jersey. [annotation note="to clarify Shruti did all the driving

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  problem was to get the answer. What about the answer? Why does it even ... lucky, and hopefully this answer will be the one your instructor intended ... throw a wild party, where she will be able to embarrass him in front of

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  icy air, could not be more fitting for what will be a very tough ... This post has no central topic or theme. This will simply be a random ... .e. Chinese characters. In fact, Korean used to be written exclusively in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  opportunity to be able to link some of the lessons I’ve had in engineering ... implementation to consider, not to mention all the ethics, advocacy, and ... adapted to be a description of the stereotypical MIT engineer, this is wrong

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  not include credits in the film"]thanks to my crew;[/annotation] Leah B ... organizing, to the filming, the lighting, the sound recording, and the post ... film in the midst of trying to finish my other classes

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019