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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  in that I could see how I did during shooting. Maybe that's a good ... ask me how I was doing. I said I was fine, just a little tired. He ... look slightly blurred; that much is a consequence of focusing on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  mean, it's something I need to do. But who I am is more than that. How do ... . I'm sitting in classes, taking notes, doing homework. This is most of ... that I need to put in this work now for when I apply to schools this

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  I have stated this in this short blog post, but there is a lot going on in the world, it is a confusing time, and I want to make sure it is ... I'm writing today to remind our applicants that we do not give any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  Silicon Valley startups, however, is that they often go after "easy money ... .  Here's the main lessons I took away from his talk: How to know when to jump into a field 70-80% of the market is chasing the current fad.  This

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  enough time. Do you see how much that is? It’s so much! I’m really not ...   I have a conversation with my Anxiety. This year I learned that it ... . You’ll have a place in no time. Anxiety: Okay, but what about that

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  lists that you are interested in is a good first step. At any rate ... , when a lot more things are established. On "How do I plan my schedule so ... homesickness is merely this: don't stay in your dorm room. At least for me, I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  a mild indifference, which is more or less how I’ve started out most ... discouraging (about a goal that I had that in no way concerned or affected them ... science. I also remember laughing over a “B” that I later got in Personal

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  in order to do it. Puzzles have some sort of answer, which is usually a ... Hunt is a time-honored tradition, which you can learn more about in CJ ... a series of answers. A meta is a kind of puzzle that uses these

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  the Last Dance For Me. I must say that I do like the crooners. (Michael ... is a band I'm going to have to explain to my kids so they can ... Opera is something I enjoy, and I'm happy that I've seen some Cantonese

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  realized that perhaps jumping into a dance group is not for me. i do not ... philosophy -- it was everything i ever wanted in a university. but i kind of ... expensive." "mit isn't that cool." but secretly inside i knew that mit was, in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  What should I be doing now? Tips for regular and early applicants.

  

  a fee waiver, your family needs the $65 more than we do. If you are interested in playing on a varsity sports team at MIT, please contact the ... long run. For EA Applicants I hope that if you haven't already done so

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  into a boat p.s. I've just been informed that Ben scooped me on this ... In my last entry, I left you with this teaser: "I will reveal the #1 ... Couchamaran. The Couchamaran is just what it sounds like -- a sofa on pontoons

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  going to run a HALF MARATHON!! I live in BOSTON!! This is so freaking cool ... I wrote in an earlier blog that I took up running. Since coming back ... the website and what do I find? The band is on tour. And their first

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  . Participation in the ISOs is neither a requirement nor expectation of applicants ... ;   I also got to visit Kazakhstan, which is a strange, beautiful ... EducationUSA (EdUSA) office in American Corner. EdUSA is a U.S. Department of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  that many friends already do and that I've been interested in doing for a ... Jitsu stresses...well, I'll let the website do that, since it does a ... Hi there, blog readers! Now that we're a week into IAP, I have a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  . Anyway, one thing that I've started to do with my friends is playing the ... The weird thing about quarantine is that I'm actually being better ... games. I really, really love playing this game, in spite of how

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  excited about all of this; I think it's amazing that in literally a month, I ... In my New Year's reflections post, I mentioned that over the winter ... a UROP in linguistics: I mean, research experience would be useful

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  ." "Alright, what do you like to do in school?" "I like math. . ." "MIT is a ... policy is that they do not matter. When December 8th came I knew it was ... wanted to go to MIT, it wasn't just a name anymore. How did I know? A lot

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  emergency blog post because Lilly Chin ‘17 just won Jeopardy and is also the greatest of all time "who is the spiciest memelord?" it's you

  

  who knows Lilly is going to do a longer interview of her with lots of good questions like "how did you get so fresh?" and "what is knowledge ... Of Lilly that MIT suddenly had a custom snapchat filter activated on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 24, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  audacity to sit in a seat that's clearly someone else's, but could sympathize ... settle. I also understood that he didn't do it maliciously, rather, it was ... and had a hunch that only my display was broken. I wasn't sure if that

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023