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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  . Boiko: Last year, a senior in one of our courses came up at the end of ... 's a terrific event coming up on campus. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist ... and A Canticle for Leibowitz. Students consider genre protocols and how

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  /Chinese courses, so revisiting it for such a different purpose was pretty strange, but I ended up enjoying it a lot. The course is a psychological ... habits. I'm a sucker for anything structured that makes me feel productive

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  all the classes I didn’t take you seem pretty unsure for a girl so in love with her major

  

  's not like I'm going to be locked up in Building 46 for 40 hours a week. I ... ,[/annotation] and [annotation note = "Russian II"]21G.612,[/annotation] which, for a ... . It's a casual 310 units (roughly 26 classes), for 416.4 hours a week

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • April 14, 2026
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  . Everything was a learning experience; the world had just opened up for me in a ... - whether or not you take it is up to you My Card: The Eight of Cups [caption ... strolled down that path, and I’ve realized what lies there wasn’t for me

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BASICNESS!!!!! a major major update

  

  /business degree of the STEM world. BUT! Let me provide my justification for choosing ... thermodynamics never could. This does only apply for bio applications, though ... good, and I am not completely full of regret for course 10B. However, it

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 30, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  Cells, Cells, and more Cells you've met me at a very course 20 time in my life

  

  to hopefully catch these blogs up to my current life, but instead of ... that felt has difficult for me at MIT before is that I'm not very ... -req for[annotation note="Immunology"]7.23/20.230[/annotation], [annotation

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  fun new interfaces for musical expression. Professor Ian Hattwick ... [annotation note="For our first assignment, I made a synthesizer patch that ... glue would dampen the triangles’ acoustics, Tetrahedron would account for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  for advice on how to make time for personal projects during the semester ... research and learning about niche startups and recruiting for tech roles when ... DISAPPOINTED upon hearing this - you thought for a while that they were going to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  pretty lights, and we're building a rollercoaster for it, and I'm not a ... feel guilty for not doing enough, and the Aquarium Puzzle Hunt is ... , and the booths that need to be set up, or hall rush, and I'm no

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  History. It’s a special class, offered for the first time this year, with ... one another back in the 1970’s, now kept in the Archives for future ... classmates for their takeaways, too. Here’s a review by Anhad S. ‘25: This was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  how my luggage didn't arrive to Boston for four days. Then, I wrote ... far, I've deep cleaned my dorm room, put in necessary work orders for ... worth noting that I rarely back up my computer. I'm just not that

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  "]new[/annotation] restaurants and bars with my friends. This month, I actually managed to rack up ... experience than just sitting somewhere and psetting together for hours on end ... is an Asian fusion place that used to be called Thelonious Monkfish for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  This is a short appreciation post for fun., one of my favorite bands ... different days than they normally would, which messed up the times I allotted ... evening to Sunday afternoon, for an ESP retreat. It’s been a lot these past

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  :45 for fencing, and then sometimes go back at night to squeeze some more ... fun. unhealthy amounts of super smash ultimate - i swear i played for ... are also willing to play for five hours straight as well. truly a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  prompts for the forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear ... simply for the pleasure of it. (100 words or fewer) Although you may not ... , etc. (200-250 words) Describe the world you come from; for example

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  ’s start with high school. For us, MIT was our dream school. We obsessively ... other schools, and for the first time in high school, we did. When we ... scoured Activities Midway for art-related clubs, and we went to the CMS and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  We've gotten some questions about our essay prompts for the ... . Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 words ... the world you come from; for example, your family, clubs, school

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  understanding MIT. So I fired up the old email client and sent the following email ... Upstatement, and I think their new website for us will be very good. Indeed, I ... : * Maintaining/extending the weird, fun, "students just made this for you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  :01, there were already 16 people on the waitlist for sailing. Sidequest 3 ... prime spot to stock up on free stuff (and probably job opportunities if ... tunnel systems. In theory, there is no need for winter jackets, which is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• 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