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• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  to 34 hours (source). In this post, I’ll describe my (also wildly ... ” MIT class is 12 units. This may mean 4 hours in class and/or recitation ... (like the wonderful 18.S097 Special Subject in Mathematics: Introduction

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  taking the class with Ceri R. ’16, two people who live on my floor in ... Boys in comics class a few weeks ago, we focused mainly on how Faith Erin ... , grew from them (and not the other way around, shoehorning in plot to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  your Part 1 now, if you haven't already. There are no essays in there ... in advance of the deadline. Most people's problems at the deadline ... , transcripts, and test scores if they are not yet showing up in MyMIT tracking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  voting for the first time. In 2004, I'd worked as an election official, on ... also all had their shot, and knowing in my head who I would have voted ... there was was state interest. It did a big part in helping to unite the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  to provide the chance to participate in random, spontaneous, fun events ... for a battle in a specific location. I instantly registered and made Dan ... , fighting alongside your countrymen! We shall put those Tories in their place

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  the best college events in the nation—Campus Preview Weekend at MIT ... about the school that I’ll be attending in just a few short months. My CPW story can be summed up in three pictures. Friendship: From R to L

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  's bed, Nixon sheds a lot of goldish-orange fur, Voight meows to himself in ... new to hall, having arrived in a kennel on Delta Airlines from a place ... clueless about what they were like on a daily basis before I moved in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  subtitle… anyways we still hack mit ! in a way."]Hacking[/annotation]in its ... -nighters you pulled"]24 hours[/annotation]building a project in CS and/or hardware. We run two hackathons every year — one in the spring for high

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  've been in a bit of writing rut but, as I was reading through an email I ... different lives: sad girl sulk in Boston, wanderlusty adventures in Europe, and domestic comfort in Austin   anyways   Things I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  in creativity and fitness originating from a very simply defined objective: "Get to the top of this wall, in any way possible". This flavor of ... . There are mats, but it’s dangerous if you fall in a bad way. But climbing

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  starts (in my case, when I was packing to come to Orientation!) I've gone ... blogs (of course) and coming to blogger check-ins. We're expected to write one blog every two weeks and check-ins are scheduled at that same

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  in 2022, I challenged myself to listen to an album every day. I ... prospect of consuming 365 new albums in a year. what if I found it tedious ... my last attempt at a New Year's Resolution. in my junior year of high

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  The first time I ever stepped on a skateboard was in 2015, which was also the year that Marty McFly time-traveled to from 1985 in Back to the Future Part II. I was in seventh grade. It was a week before Halloween, and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  You may have noticed that everything in this institvte is named by ... ; tool = working. "I'm gonna be tooling in Hayden tonight."  2. n ... Research Opportunity Program, as in doing research. 2. n an undergrad in a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  phases of my life. a while back, i was waiting in atlas to get my ID card ... accumulating in me as the days go on. but they’re more like rings inside a tree ... knows what they're doing in [annotation note="and if you are one of those

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  overwhelming amount of exhaustion. I am doing much less than I ever have in a ... floating in sludge, and that every amount of work I do actually get done ... 've always felt that I lack in comparison to other MIT students: I just don

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  (Current Debates in Media): This is the capstone class for the CMS major ... and debate about various things happening in the media at the immediate ... in the world. I didn't know that we actually had to debate each other

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  in Google with the same intention, Atatiana Jefferson, Alton Sterling ... even in my quiet quarantined home. Tears, anger, frustration… I had been ... peacefully arrested in their homes for murder and aggravated assault of Amaud

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  was ten, and I was in fifth grade, and now I am twenty, and I am in ... . In many ways, I am now, since coming to MIT, more like my fifth grade ... did it. My grades aren't in yet, but I think I did it. At the start of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  officer in the month of April, naturally, I was at still at work. I was ... to when I was in high school (a much simpler time when Tyra Banks was ... her caseload and no one specializing in college applications, I was

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019