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• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  Just like that, freshman year has come and gone. It’s weird to think ... take many GIR’s). I had two reasons for this. One, I got credit for ... chemistry and biology (the remaining two science GIR’s). I know I’ll have to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  ways. Many of you may not remember, but in the late 1990s and early 2000s ... thing to being Hogwarts — Harry Potter’s wizarding school — in real life ... Gonagalls — that’s you President Hockfield — and Dumbledores. There are secret

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  ’d forgotten so much, even if it was just a momentary lapse. Maybe my memory’s ... , receding into the distance, growing hazy. It’s not that I’m stuck in the past ... to say goodbye to MIT in the way I would’ve liked. I finished my master’s

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• 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

  

  study conducted by the University of California’s Standardized Testing ... Board by the 1940s, which evolved over time into the simpler set of tests ... to a student’s ability to do well at MIT. And when we review

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  under the current issue’s theme. Infinite aims to provide the space ... to help with someone’s idea for a spread were unable to offer much ... [annotation note="Editors in Chief"]EIC’s,[/annotation] a creative director, an

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  went there on Gloria '26's and Janet '27's suggestion, because they think ... me ~$14). I went here on Jebby '25's suggestion. My order: Peach

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  @MIT Fly-In, take a moment to read about the program from Vaneeza’s ... process (it’s hard to do!) and how to showcase strengths such as resilience ... each other’s backgrounds and the goals they hope to achieve. STARS

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  earlier. How the time flies. P.S.: If you're interested in learning more ... write about this in my next blogpost! Stay tuned :) P.P.S: I used "maths

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  Marvel knowledge v.s. only 1 semester of MIT GIRs under my belt. I ... Special Projects at MIT Admissions + Student Financial Services. It’s funny ... projects can be driven by a student’s passion and energy to explore their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  that I never would have considered. 21H.S05 - Encoding Culture. This ... lamp class ended up conflicting with CMS.S60 so I get to now take this ... . CMS.S60 - Rap Theory and Practice. So I ended up getting into the class

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  also my first time on Yale’s campus which was very exciting. the campus ... production of a musical  I went with Silu S. ’24 to watch Six at the Emerson ... watch MIT Shakespeare Ensemble’s fall show ‘As You Like It’ with Prajna N

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  beautiful descriptions of tennis. Of course, in men’s sports no one ever talks ... understood, war’s codes are safer for most of us than love’s. Conway's Game of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  do, it’s almost too mortifying to admit. All those months of taking it ... . And I hate him for it.” It’s been years since I’ve read the Hunger ... . It’s everything else that is hard. In this blog post, I haven’t made

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  nervous. I stared at the clock above everyone’s heads as I hit certain lines ... angrily, then sad. I kept laughing at other people’s lines — they were ... night, I watched the first. I loved everyone’s monologues. Thank you to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  meeting stem people. i don’t have an opinion on how correct my friend’s ... ’t interest me or are a bad influence on me, but there’s no sense in holding the ... every person’s life, because it is much easier to follow routines that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  student community made up of some of the world’s most intelligent and ... needing to complete a portfolio. (That’s one of the main reasons we love ... Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor!"]entirety of your cello concerto

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  growth, of nostalgia. but there’s also the faint weight of knowing that ... that they don’t really end once you complete them. i mean, that’s the ... my life to begin, my childhood had to end. [...] and maybe that’s why

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  . Ambrose Bierce published The Devil’s Dictionary in 1906, a book filled with ... they are a Benedict Arnold. Coach K’s last name is pronounced “shih ... Andrews). Like … half of the appeal of a ventriloquist is that the person’s

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  :1s, and I talk to many other people - interns, the University program ... try to schedule 1:1s starting at this block because I am not very social or functional in the morning. 2-3 PM: Usually more 1:1s and spamming

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020