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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  to remember that every Student at MIT was once an Earthling. And every ... traveling to different planets, perhaps living in a ship for years until ... childhood interests. I never thought that by going to college here I would be

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  willingness to handle failure Hands-on creativity Intensity, curiosity, and ... are academically qualified to handle the MIT curriculum. This part’s the ... your SAT scores. I won’t touch on it again. You shouldn’t need to touch

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  with finding what you need when you need it. Images can be difficult to ... cramps that I’ll be powering through as I try to cram as much information ... .310, we were allowed to fill one 8.5” X 11 sheet of paper, front and back

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  and decided to give us a bag of things she no longer needed, but thought ... order to start the cycle again for sophomore year, we decided to transfer ... -every-birthday-card-in-a-cute-box-sentimental type. More like borderline-hoarders-that-have-to-assess

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  getting to be too much to try to figure out in one sitting. Cue 4 am ... York. It was a bust. My team left halfway through and I gave up trying to ... rather than in a central server. And it's so much more than that, but we

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  I need to learn to be okay with it. There's some part of me that feels ... need to surmount the alternate life I would have led. A need to prove ... way that I once was known. An exhaustion at the thought of having to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  hurt me in eighth grade to need to listen to Three Cheers at 6am ... Sunflower does. This is such a lovely album and I can't wait to hear it live ... Recently, I've stopped listening to new music releases in favor of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  from DUSP, which conducts its own talks once or twice a year to let ... ? how to design human interactions with technical systems? the electoral ... new admits at a reception to discuss classes and undergraduate research

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  processor can take care of--for instance, dialogue does not need to be ... this instead. There's frankly not too much to say because I've been ... too much of his talk but I think it had to do with behavioral economics

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  , anyway, to the point that i was just worrying about them when i didn't need ... drastically different things than i do right now. at once, i feel numb to ... one. when i was applying to be a blogger i wrote this in my blogger

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  head, a whirring that keeps my mind thinking about what I need to do next ... was much easier to do exceptional things and be recognized for it. Now ... can’t make the time to. Once an assignment is turned in, I can’t reflect

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  I try my best to be as honest as possible on the blogs, while simultaneously trying to be kind to the institution that gives me the privilege of having such a wide platform to share my ideas on. Which is also why it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  needed to learn welding as a prerequisite for the IAP class where you build ... duh duh duh duh. That's a cue for you to reposition. Once everyone ... 've developed a much deeper understanding of how the process works and how to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  in fact a terrible way to pick a college, and I soon transferred. At ...   Last night, Jon Stewart announced his plans to leave ... family because we hadn't yet been able to move into our new home. My world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  above pertains only to MIT, of course. You'll find people much smarter ... locked doors." I've found that to be very true; at MIT, pretty much every ... much time gaming or Facebooking or Tumblring (I'll have to admit that I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  showed, to a degree that can never be sufficiently told, how much Jobs ... need addressed right away. I've already assigned someone from my team to ... thing he put up there was his treasured Mac IIsi. Later, I would come to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  yourselves. There is so much to do here, so much to get involved in, and so ... to tell us how you handled a situation in which things did not go ... ) some advice for how to quickly finish his art notebook cover project

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  beginning of this semester. There was a CI-H, which I needed to take, but it was the same night as a Writing Science Fiction class that I wanted to ... “I pulled a sophomore stupid” said my friend as we tried to finish up

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  To all of this year’s applicants: Pi day is long gone, and after 6 ... think that by the way I was feeling, I had been determined to go here ... eventually going to have to think about. All I really knew was that I liked to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  replied. "I'd be a kid forever. I just need to figure out how." ... between us. "Probably," he whispered, "that I've started to think like an ... have had too much. But the food was just enough. The event lasted four

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022