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• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  love this show, current favorite along with The Big Bang Theory and Top ... , after all, some time away from the internet might be healthy right? At first this is no big deal, but then the Friday after Christmas, I find my

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  Communications and Special Projects — I am doing more writing than ever, but the ... tactics as I explored a world that somehow got larger the more I explored it ... — '] playing Elden Ring on a dex/faith build: small, fast melee weapons with the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  due. — i signed up for 18.701 because it was the right thing for me to ... believed. at that point, i completed the introductory math courses i needed ... .701 became a way for me to start learning pure mathematics to the degree that i

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  few dozen extras in the background, so they made a big group chat and added me to it. i wasn’t friends with any of the other extras, but there ... so up until the very end. i know this is a foolish endeavor from a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  a table. nature inspires you and you love the outdoors, but you're so ... things done. you seek the familiar, but are also great at going with the flow and rolling with the punches. you're either a morning person or have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  and the most pleasurable month of the academic calendar, but I don ... much of a continuation of the fall as possible, or you can do nothing ... fully realized how dominated the city is by MIT until a large fraction of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  adjacent to beauty, but beauty does not give others the feeling of an elastic ... about the kind of beauty that arose from symmetry, from clear skin or a pleasing smile. These days, I see the term “beautiful” used quite often

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  wildly at the state of the world*. Last semester, I took a non ... . Last spring, I tried taking 18.901, Topology, but the first class was...interesting. Due to some technical mix-up, the vast majority of the class (40-ish

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  , everything was new, from the campus to the classes to the experience of living away from my family for the first time. The next fall, during my ... requirements to mostly [annotation note="these were course 6 classes at the time

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  Transgender Anti-Discrimination”. In essence, the bill says that you can’t be discriminated against in public areas based on gender identity. One of the most ... told she can’t use the women’s restroom. The entire bill is here: https

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  at roughly the same time and grew in some sense of togetherness, and maybe i feel like i know this class a little better than the others, so i'll excuse myself for having some extra level of fondness for the 2017s. i don

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  i posted the following message in the MIT class of 2021 admits ... ! welcome! for those of you who are still on the fence, i thought i might ... hard decision. 1 - none of the reasons i love MIT now are the same as

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  Dear High School Senior Stalking College Admissions Blogs: The ... numbers, I couldn't get this editor to bullet the nested lists :( ) Read ... -page in-depth analysis on the tone of the main character’s dog’s whimper

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  now... Some things are definitely the same - for instance, I wrote this entire blog post without periodically saving it (I like to live on the edge), and then my brower froze when I was about to publish and I lost the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  . I'd like to present my experience as 10 lessons-- not the ones I taught, but the ones I learned. (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧           1. Don't worry about the uncontrollable. Here, I specifically mean flying. Due to the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  kicked around, or watching Up in the Air too many times. Anyways, every ... interest). Instead, I'll just cover the essentials, aka the things I carry with me every day.  I'd title this something grandiose like The

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  This morning at breakfast, I gave my son (the high school junior ... another elaborate drawing like the one you were up all night doing, why not ... cover.” Blank stares at the table. The 18-yr-old started snorting over

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  with nerds from the future here at MIT). As I'm sure you already know, decisions day (D-Day from here on out) is upon us and for the prospective ... 't explain (the likes of which you won't see again until prom) and bandwidth

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  Tomorrow marks the return of classes, p-sets, papers, reading ... about to begin. I'm taking the following classes: 7.013 - Introductory ... awesome time taking psychology in high school. That was the one class where

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  other college in the country, right?".   A few months ago I was ... junior or a senior there and was blown away by the setting. "Absolutely ... the sunset. And at night there was always something to do. Parties with

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009