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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  In the comments section of my last post, Confused Frosh asked: "Can ... each of these classes by typing the subject number into the Course ... officially registered for 8.01, but took special seminars and the 8.012 final

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Today, we continue the series Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ... ? Count on WJBF News Channel 6’s Fraendy Clervaud. He has the story ... . The summer is here, but he’s not going on vacation. Instead, he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  seen her out and about on the blogs. We had run into each other before ... sunny day in the fall of our sophomore year. She approached me in the atrium of [annotation note="the Brain and Cognitive Sciences building

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  student, you sort of get used to being one of the youngest. Everyone else is ... the dropouts usually have at least one year of college under their belt ... the first day. How did I find myself at one of the most incredible

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  'm hunched over on the airport floor. My eyes are glazed with the exhausting ... me. The cry of the small child in his arms yanks me unpleasantly back to Earth like Floo powder. The babies are after me, I think, as my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  at Pixar, which would be formatting and finding information for the ... the summer in case you get stuck there, but consider Dorm Rush (REX), not the summer, to be the time when you're truly making your living

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  ="Functional programming, of course"]the best programming paradigm[/annotation], but I could sense something special about them from our first interaction. The ... expressions and all things computational – I heard they could list the first

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  in april my friend recommended the excellent article becoming a ... existed on a scale of ‘competence at bodypainting’ it seemed like the skills ... than yours with such alien mental models that you cannot predict the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  , the other three getting master's degrees at MIT. Tomorrow is[annotation note="The day before classes start, everyone meets with their advisor to ... ."]Registration Day,[/annotation]and I’ll walk into my advisor’s office, the same

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  badly formed answer. for the longest time i wondered if this was because i think more slowly when under social pressure or if the right way to answer ... actually come up with the most accurate answer on the spot. there’s probably

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  graduated, this is the type of post-college wisdom I might share from time to ... find that this is even more so the case for people whose parents had ... the Chinese community. Some people did similar work to my mom

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  the person you were, or who you think you were. You can admire things ... . Situations change. If you don’t have the energy for it, that’s fine. You’re fine. Most of the time, the factors are beyond your control, and it isn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  see what the other two are like. Best of all, I am finally free of 9ams ... that we'll do lots of case studies this semester too. Even in the first ... -Conner?"]housing.[/annotation] It was really nice to see that the professor cares about (a) making the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  in the slightest because that will Interrupt My Rhythm and Ruin ... of failure. My first few weeks at MIT have seen me pick out the major ... putting sleep and meals on the back burner (pun intended). My classes and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  In May 2016, I wrote Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later, where I shared the ... elsewhere. For me, this is one of the most important blog posts I've ever ... amazing, it is amazing not because of some occult magick embedded in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  is around the time of winter break. I chose to spend my break at home. But alas, while all my friends and family were out enjoying the hot ... defines as the “sudden involuntary expulsion of air from the nose and mouth

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  . What new stuff should I send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is the February Updates & Notes form. You'll use the FUN form to tell ... , but the FUN form is the best way to update us. The FUN form is due by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  , but that’s beside the point) I found myself sitting in front of my desk, the room empty, and my roommates still gone. The glare of my laptop ... bottle. The water tasted strangely of swimming pool. Weird. All that was

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2013 FAQs

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... ’t worry! You can read the updates for Early Action at this blog entry ... tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2013