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• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  soul,” and [annotation note="Just to be clear, in case the tone doesn ... of their relatives in China, a way to share the holiday with other people. We would fill all the rooms in the house, and everybody would eat

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  College students have to be productive. In trying to manage all my ... you should download and test out in your first few weeks of college. I ... search for them in my notes and instantly see every book, article, and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  The Tech - MIT's oldest and largest newspaper (established in 1861 ... manageable, but only if you are not in 10 other activities outside of classes. Supposedly, students that are accepted to MIT are “well-rounded.” In reality

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  back to green. Even past elementary school, in fact--my high school ... -bordered (cut) and taped together–definitely a lesson in patience and attention to ... opposed to constant summer) was in elementary school, so this is more or

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  this week and she wanted it to be posted in honor of the November Rule ... sexual health in a way that is honestly unheard of in a lot of places. We ... people about sex and relationships and what's okay and what's not okay in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  and hiked to central Maine, traversing over 2,181 miles in four months. I finished just in time to cruise back to Boston for 4th of July ... been in a position to take the semester off, to have supportive family

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found ... 'm doing, what I think I might want to do with my life. Back in September, in my very first blog post, I came up with an assortment of general

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  In recent weeks, we have been fielding many questions over phone and ... might read something [annotation note='Variables listed in brackets, because I still think in Python-influenced data structures, years after 6

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  , which features: Clear standards: Instructors can include a rubric ... it out, I had to make regrade requests. In this blog post, I ... regrade requests and responses like? I took two classes in Fall 2019 for

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  freshman year was cut abruptly short, i'm doing this post now instead of in ... just added songs that were significant in some way or other/songs that i ... since the confusion/frustration in its lyrics are a Big Mood Indigo by

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  Tuesday before CPW, caught my attention in particular. In it, Yuliya the ... ever. In summary: because CPW. But here is more (from April 8, 2014): I ... of lectures entitled “FIREHOSE” (in reference to a popular descriptor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  following: These are the contents of a care package I got in the mail this ... 'll slip in a shout-out to good old Mac High--but here, things move fast. Too fast, sometimes, especially in calculus, but I'd rather be a little

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  than I learned in one year of being a student… and I’m not even working ... country and the world. They all come to MIT, stay in Simmons hall, and get paired with a mentor in the Boston area to do an original scientific

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  . They had appeared in our yard back home lonely and hungry, and in just a ... voicemail on my way out of some indie movie in the middle of summer, "Wah wah wah wah wah..." and called back in alarm. We don't know where they came

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  How many days I have left in my parents’ home is approximately as ... torn. In the college home, I get adventures with friends, bright city lights, and academic pursuits. In my parents' home, I have my sister, the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  years before me. In my case, that’s 10th grade, right before COVID hit ... water.) I’m stuck in a bit of a situation where I’m weirdly better at the ... completely filled in yet. [caption id="attachment_80633" align

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  exists in and around MIT knows that there’s always so much pressure to be ... expectation that seems like it’s almost designed to breed guilt in students who ... Short Stories just for me. I want to write more in the future, and it

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  fashion conventions in Las Vegas to buy the season's latest looks. When he ... Cross student going to M.I.T. in the Fall By Jarett Henshaw Published ... universe that are not directly expressed in the observable properties of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  policy clearly is important in every case. If your policy involves the ... I'm briefly emerging from hard work in the application mines to share ... language text in response to prompts.  There has been a tremendous amount of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  In light of interviews quickly approaching, I thought I’d do a post ... . Here we go!   A bit of background information before we dive in In our holistic application process, the interview is one aspect where

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022