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• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  , then you won't be at a huge disadvantage with a desktop, but it ... students a discount on all three of these brands, these will be the laptops ... , everyday student. If you're going to be doing basic typing, Mathematica

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  the summer, I had ample opportunity to compile what may (someday) be the ... truly believe that college admissions should be as uncomplicated, honest ... my advice to be earth-shattering, I'm just hoping that my own

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  I'm going to be honest - The first five academic weeks here were not ... it. But actually, the transition can be pretty painful. I'm here to tell you it doesn't have to be. That's right. You don't have to be an

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  . This might be a little unclear, but don't worry – I explain it better ... managed to place [annotation note="To be completely accurate, I actually had ... select, the number of points you receive will be k / (the number of times k

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  't offered at my school. Does that eliminate my chances of being accepted to ... 'm worried that by pursuing a science/engineering career, I won't be helping ... year and a half with that goal in mind, but I seem to be at a brick wall

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  scenarios in which some life must be lost, (a more specific case of the ... being rationed) and will argue for how to resolve the life allocation ... principle that solves the problem. If such a principle exists, it should be

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  probably be under 16%, meaning that, unfortunately, we'll have to turn away 5 ... opportunity if you're admitted, but I hope that people will be okay if they're not. (This can be applied to all of the other crazy schools that also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  . I was lucky to be surrounded by kind and passionate people who ... being solidly afraid of heights, and found that I loved it. One of my ... shortbread cookies with another friend; the cookies turned out to be dismal in

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  isn't meant to be an "Oh non-MIT people just don't get it" in a snobby ... , intense understanding among MIT people to fully embrace being absolutely ... my chest, a longing to be fully understood and to be home. Though the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  you want it to be. That most people don't actually take six classes a ... over somewhere else. When people assured me that I wouldn't be spending ... , "MIT is only as hard as you want it to be" was true. In other ways, it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  quickly be expelled. I was also frustrated that the announcement to send us ... 's response and the new reality of being an MIT student during COVID-19. At ... like. I would be free from any sudden policy changes MIT made. I could

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  fact that my time with my living community would be cut short, that I would be robbed of all the things I had been looking forward to and maybe ... floors like mine with strong communities, being split up for two years

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  our experience doesn't seem to be as common, and this is technically our ... 't really on either of our minds. And we were lucky enough to be in a position ... this person is doing xyz, I should also be doing xyz”) and an internal

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

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  Signs that I would someday Do Science can be traced to when I was 6 ... to be a spaceship. Apparently I was a little confused about what NASA ... Observatory. There, I learned that Real Science can also be ugly, although

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  whether you'll be there). For the parents who will be attending CPW We ... : Friday afternoon at 2pm, there will be a panel of the top student life ... Saturday morning, a panel of current MIT parents will be on hand to share

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  anticipated it being difficult to get back into the swing of things but was ... Equations. It's too early to tell exactly how manageable this class will be ... it past first semester of freshmen year without being comfortable with

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  who are leaving for college a year from now. Your parents might be ... year left before you have to say goodbye, but they'll be gone before you ... . I wanted it to be totally perfect. 100% perfect - not 99%, or even 99

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  four years of pure joy and pure exhaustion, I will be marching in my ... being busy. It builds character. We are unapologetic academic masochists ... cutthroat behavior here -- after all, there's no point in being rude when

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred ... have made me think a lot about what it means to be and do good in spite ... nuggets of wisdom or poems (arguably the same thing) would be much

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  and the void. The world feels like what can be best described as ... being able to tell longer-form stories and play around with the media of ... where there was nothing more I wanted to do but be horizontal, alone, and

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 4, 2024