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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  isn’t for me. I’m not entirely excluding the possibility. […] But Java ... it in JavaScript. Well, that ended up changing. Over the past two years ... that there was hope for me yet. It's also pretty cool that my experiences

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  You Do For Pleasure ("pleasure" - 100 words), Department at MIT ... admission officers ("adcoms") are not looking for "standard" answers, and you ... you if they do happen to be things that you do for fun). Just be honest

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  XNEQ&ab_channel=EvelynFromTheInternets Sozin’s Comet: Everything was building up for the ultimate battle between ... searching recipes of pictures I had collected earlier. I looked up recipes for ... Beware! There will be many spoilers for Avatar: The Last Airbender

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  . i am scared for what i will see when i wake up tomorrow morning don ... focusing on making haikus, but I have a lot going on and I can't keep up. i ... , so ready for CPW, because I didn’t get to go to CPW when I got admitted

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  ; I can end up working at a job or researching for a while longer, and ... These blogs exist for many reasons. Show prospective students what ... for feeling all of those things, or feeling anything else. No matter

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... is the only path to success, which is a topic for another post.) I've been immersed in this place for six months. You’re probably sick of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  they turned out alright for me): 1) Finish (or start…) your essays ... like common sense, but considering I wrote my entire main essay for ... of your essays to do this for you, but it doesn’t hurt to do it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  's changed for posterity, maybe before I change it one last time before I ... I live in East Campus. I could tell you that CJ is short for Carl ... could talk for hours about Homestuck and grilled tomatoes and calligraphy

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Deciding that a little carton of milk couldn ... , for some reason, Milk wasn’t so gracelessly disposed. Perhaps the wealth of disciplined persistence he’d built up over the months had come

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  to the lonely 3 am campus, soaking up the light reflecting off the snow ... (both free), and all are clickable for a larger view. The first snow of ... Gregor for CPW. The walk to campus was miserable: cold air and colder rain and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... that people once tried to renovate but eventually gave up on to let them ... achieve what I wanted. It was hard for me to do that for so long. Alabama

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  questions, but I'm trying to catch up now that I'm home, so please bear with ... luxury I'm very grateful for, because while your college major doesn ... it's a little tricky to know what to do with it. Especially since for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  registration opens very late. For example, pre-registration for Fall 2019 opened ... to take the class. You can submit as many classes as you want for ... 't decide when registration period rolls around, so they register for twenty

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

   Random Hall's 40th Birthday Hack.) Birthdays are special times. Times for cakes ... people you'll be friends with. Look for communities that you're excited to ... where you can vent, cry, or just take a break. For me, Home was BMF Floor

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  example. Third-year students who are interested could also sign up for an ... , yes, not the kind of history that I like reading for fun. What ... 's been teaching for over fifty years. And then I fell down the rabbit hole

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  gifs) I visited MIT for the first time during CPW, and I came in ... was the right place for me to be pre-med...despite the fact that I would ... Greggor Crowley. (Best advisor ever?? Yup, I think so!) Together, we've come up with

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  what's up FROSH: just waiting for a burger ME: yeah those burgers are ... is my fifth ME: child FROSH: i felt bad for not eating vegetables ME ... for other groups too FROSH: well ME: specifically mine ME: the toons

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  out pretty well for you, didn't it, Washington? The statue in the ... command was something he had long envisioned for himself and driven towards ... up against British anti-American prejudice, and there wasn’t much he

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  finished a 7.012 Biology pset early Wednesday morning, I wrote an essay for ... .02 Multivariable pset this morning as well as study for the midterm exam tomorrow ... all time - and I’ve been eagerly awaiting its arrival for months. I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  name for MIT's famous class ring, whose design is unique to each class ... and a prized skill. (2) Term for alumni who remain socially active at MIT. Dorm Rush (n.) - See REX. Engineers (n.) - The proper nickname for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008