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• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  as a result, coming in with no research experience or major math

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  don't feel like you need to be on a strict schedule :) 11. For those of ... graduation/prom may be coming soon....) 14. Go to a Firehose session! Or 2, or

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  cancelled before it even started due to COVID-19, so that hope is effectively

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  middle of main campus, surrounded by Buildings 1-4, Building 10, and ... Coursework 3.091 - Solid-State Chemistry ("three oh nine fun") 5.11x ... (in MITese, 18.01, 18.02, 8.01, 8.02, 7.01x, and 3.091/5.11x). See also

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

  

  21 years ago today a very special carton of milk was brought home from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... ?" Anyway, the Milk turns 21 today, which reminds me of another story: last

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  . How to do growth accounting Learned this in 14.05, the intermediate ... separate problem). 11. Femininity is nothing to be ashamed of. I’m pretty ... of holomorphic functions. 14. How little looks matter High school

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  new programming language; take introductory economics (14.01 and 14

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  A few weeks ago, I called three friends, AudreyRose ‘21, Nikayah ‘19, and Kenneth ‘19, to talk about their experiences as members of historically Black Greek letter organizations. My goal is to illustrate that

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  fall! Interstellar was created by four students in the class of 2022

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  center (Stud) (11.1%) Stata (4.8%) Rotch Library (3.2%) STEAM (3 ... has a printer!! Cons not enough natural light 14th Floor Lounge ... adjacent to this area, so it might get loud between 7 and 11 pm Building 36

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  helps because it numbs your tongue, but will ultimately result in the same

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  ? Applying another study's results? Important, maybe, but unglamorous; it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  would have taken several rounds of hammering to achieve the same result

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the end result of this is that i now have far too many haikus Also i

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

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  things for their students, and the resulting burnout is incredibly ... result, ~*introspection*~ isn’t really built into the Institutional culture

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  2.009 presentations were December 11th. Theme: WILD! 2.009 is a Mech ... a nocturnal researcher. By 11, my script was finalized and mostly ... everything else on pause for 14 days—literally everything else, like I did my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  , everyone looked at me as if I were sick. Mid-March London! Everything

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  -quarantine fatigue, to the massive number of teachers who left between 2020 and 2022

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  the epic e-mail failure of po14 last spring. Look for Evan's blog about ... ; Jen '11 (who lives next door to me and bikes like fourteen miles a day

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  camera. 11. Room decorations: You should probably shop with your roommate ... . 14. A bicycle can save you valuable minutes in the morning, especially

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007