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• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  explains his life to me in terms of his calendar schedule, which has everything on it from important academic and club activities to hangout time ... -ing for a class or two, and applying to grad school a year early (because he

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• 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.

  

  Anna's asked me to write for her blog. And, since this is Anna, there is some implicit obligation to be nice, or worse yet cheerful and upbeat. As you can see, this does not come naturally. She wants me to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  I know this is delayed, but I never got to write an end ... ended, but I'd like to sum things up in one post and just get it all out ... fun all the time.  I really had to struggle to just pass my classes, and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  sympathize - I know how it feels to pour a lot of yourself into something, and ... you ask "SO HOW DID IT GO???" and you have to break the news, when ... carpet covered with tissues, wonder why you bothered to work so hard when

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  you don't see your question or if you have another one, feel free to email me and I'll get to it when I can. Please put "Question about MIT" in ... huge variety in what people wear to class and to what extent people care

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  . And since I can't really pick which one I most want to tell you about, I decided to blog about all of them. *** Part the First: Riddles As you may ... for me to join the official Simmons Hall team, which has played the Hunt

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  note="tbt applying to MIT >4 years ago"]incredibly familiar ... "]need[/annotation] something to worry about for the future. Why did I apply to Ph.D. programs? It's the thing you do if you major in life sciences and want to get a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  2 types of games. Finite games where the goal is to win on a finite time horizon. Infinite games where the goal is to keep contributing to the indefinite play of the game itself. For example, art

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  shudder every time I look back on [annotation note="Intro to Probability"]6 ... freedom to choose what classes I want to take now that I'm close to ... "smarter", I've just become used to working on assignments for longer periods

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  At MIT Admissions, our mission is to recruit, select, and enroll a ... to find and admit students who will succeed at MIT and serve the world afterward.  After careful consideration, we have decided to reinstate our SAT

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  legal and okay amount of classes to take, and it means that my schedule has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  remember why it was that I went home, but one Friday I took the train down to ... note="I’m obsessed with baths, which I’ll tell to anyone who cares to ... ’s not just academic exhaustion. If it were, I would know how to handle it

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  super fun and hilarious -- and at the very least, you have to admit that ... ^-^ Abby: “been to verdes after 2 am”: I had a radio show from 1-2 in the morning my freshman fall and would often stop at verdes to shop in a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  minimum needed to pass your classes, usually resulting from MIT's pass ... apathy that they forget about their [annotation note="Brief Introduction to ... ="MIT's Writing course/major"]21W[/annotation] classes are HARD to get into. In the

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  This past week and a half I've been slowly adjusting to life at MIT ... California and practically begging my mother to send me back to the cold hellhole that is Massachusetts. In this time, I've been trying to keep

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  It's been four years since I applied to MIT, and while I've been ... again. Of course, this is only one approach to the essays. The most important thing is to be true to yourself. We know you lead a busy life

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  college is supposed to be a stepping-stone to adulthood, where undergrads can attempt to be functional human beings an environment conducive to trial and error. we can turn in our psets barefoot and then binge

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  (webcast embedded from commencement website. I'll return to this blog post throughout the day to add pictures and videos).  Today, Friday, June ... , auspiciously, on Super Pi Day (3/14/15 at 9:26AM) to begin their MIT education

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  semester is comprised of classes I actually really want to take. Here are ... fraction of classes per semester that I actually wanted to take and the ... want to take! I'm even excited for the required classes, which is really

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  is time? I keep trying to type about things that are different, but there are so many things that come to mind that I've been pressing backspace on this line for the past twenty minutes, trying to convey this

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018