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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  effort in, but for some of the units I couldn’t do well no matter how hard ... luckily I’d had my own disaster-semester in the spring, and we compared ... ’m blogging again! More people can have this experience!” So I’m here, freshly

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  I wanted to have a bike for when I came to campus in the fall. I didn ... again: (I could've sworn there were more parts in the front fork ... time digging around a *bike graveyard* and in the bike store, and I had

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  jokingly believes that you do check in on me, seeing just how much i ... know how to lose friends with grace. in a way, i am thankful for you ... chance to continue to be spiteful. i wanted you to see just how successful

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  read on our "What we look for" page, or that my response to "how can I ... would have told them how creative math can be, because I did end up, one ... as we have had in the past where students can explain anything in their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  particular reason. In case you can't tell, I'm geeking out here, and loving ... a typical day at work. I'm in an office with four other undergrads ... College. They're all rising seniors in physics or astronomy; I'm the baby

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  for you (in fact, I think 50% or more sorority women didn't see ... are nothing like what the media portrays. I'll try to dispel some popular (and untrue notions) a little later on. First of all, I should just

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  room as a last resort to putting off psets, I buy groceries whenever I ... busy, it’s that I haven’t been busy enough. Last Monday, in MAS.S66 ... in a standard deck, and wrote an unique ID to each one. Then I wrote an

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  in the world, and I was beyond privileged to learn from him. I can ... I mentioned it in a previous blog, but this semester I took a class ... something like that. I think I’m going to concentrate in Music Technology if I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  have a pretty comprehensive knowledge of the game now, in that i can ... can list all the possible events in each act, that i know the ai of each ... picture of my old room, with my key: and here is my room now. i am in a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  , but there is one thing that I am confident in recommending to you. (And ... ] You can't put on your resume things that you don't [do] Here in 3 ... just being myself in my life, right where I am, is like, enough." So go

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  I enjoy them all,  I learned a metric ton of material in a ... When it comes to MIT you can put everything you do into one of two categories "for classes" or "in the spirit of having fun". While the two aren

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  year i'll be back in Burton Conner, my freshman year dorm. my EC floor ... " came in handy... after brunch, i biked to [annotation note ... , i went shopping with my little since i had to buy new clothes for my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  a little over two semesters left in this school, I wonder what impact ... engineering degree in media studies and computer science. I've joined things ... I eventually tire and leave them and join new things in hopes of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  Saturday, when I was leaving on the T at 5:30 AM, I made sure to buy two $1 ... , where it sat in solitude for three weeks. I then, right before departing ... wanting to face the usual crowd coming off the train in South Station, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  never quite materialized, I still got to experience Christmas in February ... Instrument Design). Still, I think it's amazing how much physical equipment I ... musical instruments using them very soon. A dollar bill I got in 6

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  challenging. In 2024 I developed strength and self reliance. Obviously it ... that I am beyond grateful for. But in some of these lows, I grappled with ... dependent on someone or something in an existential, unhealthy way, you can

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  . dear past me, During REX, I finally realized how much I changed in the ... dear past me,  I moved in last year on August 17th, a couple days ... circumstances']move in.[/annotation] I was one of the first people to move in and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Calm Down and Breathe Heeeeeehooooooo

  

  In which my brother and I embarassingly parody a song (first one to recognize it gets some brownie points):  Edit: Evidently I am not so good at ... going, I can't possibly be the only one...

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  how devastated I was by my rejection."] university's honors college.[/annotation] The day after I turned in that application, Saturday, December 14, 2019 ... mean, later that day I got an email from MIT with my deadname in it also

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / CPW

  an orange tour 🍊🍊🍊

  

  through a website on the Google Chrome app on my iPhone so pls forgive the ... me. Isolated color is a fun lens in which to view the world. I hope you find some joy in it, too. P.S. For context, I didn't film this livestream

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • April 29, 2024