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• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  distracted and needing to walk around or check social media. part of it was ... minute blocks are much less intimidating and therefore much easier to ... give myself for these problems, and once i’ve found them i will try to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  where you want to be? How much of this was unique to MIT as opposed to ... wants to move to a different dorm can enter a transfer lottery with ranked ... Room Assignment Chair (RAC) for their dorm to see if a transfer can be

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  need to design, build, and debug their own robot. The subject includes ... 6.270. We've found that people can learn everything they need to know ... . We changed our method of ball deployment from one by one to all at once

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  , I was graduating out of Harvard, once a place I had dreamt to attend ... , and it’s ok to struggle. Everyone does, at some point. And it’s ok to ... than I ever admitted. But I did, undeniably, fail to graduate on time

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  summer doesn’t sing to me anymore (although I really think it does), I can ... happily consumed. At one point I needed to step back from writing a little ... , because I got too hosed to finish it in March."]room.[/annotation] It’s late

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  group project, but– me: but now i need to be with people because i can ... could get used to the water temperature before going out further and ... forth underneath me while I tried to propel myself up. Keep in mind that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  much more fulfilling, than responding in kind. Sometimes it's better to ... significant other they love. That's kind of backwards. Sometimes you need to go ... difference and you'll be much happier. Don't call in to sports talk radio. No

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  , I thought I knew how to handle life. In fact, I had a clear vision in ... new paths. It’s horrifying sometimes to think how much knowledge there ... . In three weeks, I will need to declare a (yet nonexistent) major. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  't like writing all that much. That's even more of a reason to get your ... -unit version of 100A dedicated to people who may need more time to grasp ... situation does not have to be your everything, but it definitely helps your

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  that they're worthy of MIT, and prove to themselves that they can handle ... discovered that there is much more to MIT than schoolwork and studying. He ... down the hall in hysterics increase. How does Jon react to the added

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  much too busy laughing. By far the funniest moment to me, although it may ... does have a serious side effect: MIT Addiction. I want to go back ASAP. I ... ’m ready to head back to the ‘tvte. Though I have some great

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  baseline of academic preparation. We need to be really confident that you can ... to them, that tend to need the testing to demonstrate that preparation ... needs to do what is the right thing for them. And I know that's just an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  , which, as I have come to learn, is a valuable commodity. Once classes ... handle on what that means now. I haven't pulled an all-nighter yet to do ... . I haven't been able to do as much of the stuff as I've wanted to do

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  —in the month-long lull that is IAP, there isn’t much to talk about besides ... to handle. all things considered, though, i really enjoy this class ... up stockpiling a lot of random ingredients that you need to use all at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  this class? Will I thrive in the class? As much as I would love to be ... syllabi/course evaluations tell me most of what I need to know. Some things ... about my class projects here. A major contributor to my enjoyment was

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  on the site -- there's no need to ask basic questions, for example ... . You do not need to worry at this time about documents that are not ... wrote: Regarding November SAT testing: Do I need to make MIT a direct

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  upbeat. As you can see, this does not come naturally. She wants me to ... about the humanities and half as a coping mechanism to handle the eight ... although once you get off into the countryside, much of it still looks pretty

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  ; everything you need, and lots of things you don’t know how to use. The place ... old. So much thought goes into the process of any project: where to ... , what order to work in so that you have space to hammer where you need to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  indicators, MIT does its best to make sure you end up in a physics class that ... , and the only advice the professor could give me was to practice. I NEED ... both agreed that I needed to not be in 8.01 anymore, that it wasn

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  need to do per computation. Single-Photon Interference This effect is a ... beamsplitter. Normally, we would need a photon to hit the object to detect its ... changed nothing about the source. Ok, so what does any of this have to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025