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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  that I'm staying in for the summer. Escher couldn't just draw a normal ... , in a word, frenetic. I loved all of my classes (or at least the idea of ... attention to the ideas, or A* search algorithms from 6.01 that I was too busy

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  empowering to do so as a woman in STEM, but nowadays I also feel guilty about ... graduating this year. I can't wait to see them do amazing things out in the ... 've been consistently involved in is The Tech, which I joined as an arts

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  , one 2 (in Calc BC, with a 4 on the AB subsection...yeah, that's right, I ... I decided that the comment would be too long. Because in addition to ... Confidential when I was applying to colleges, and this is probably a good thing

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  place that I love. Make sure that you remember that all you can do is know ... . --- All I can really add to that blog entry is that this year, I'm reliving ... if I got in, hear if I got funding, etc. I still believe, however, that

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  let’s talk about financial aid a different kind of holiday miracle

  

  MIT "set aside" a certain amount of money for me to eat. Now that I'm in ... tuition at a four-year university is 2-3x what my family makes in a year ... as I could, and hoped that even just one would let me in, and very very

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 24, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  [/annotation] making a CSS demo which is real neat in Javascript, HTML, and CSS. Sunday I ... As evident from my last blogpost, I'm doing a lot and it's taken a toll on me. So much so, in fact, that I've finally crashed. So I have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  suddenly remember how to breathe. I got a 68 on that take-home exam. (Learn ... Remember that epic pset I told you about? Well, a few days after that pset was due, we had our only exam in that class (Sustainable Energy). I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  You may have noticed that I've been playing a lot of video games ... 've been playing a lot of in the last two weeks is Slay the Spire, a ... , that's a lot of hours for a game I've only owned for eighteen days

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  "Annaaaaaaa", presumably because he was worried that I'd fallen back asleep (a ... slipped through the narrative cracks. - In mid-February, I boarded a bus ... The pre-Spring break week is always a nightmare; a friend summed it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  . Fortunately, I now know how to make a website, something that I never actually ... numbers involved, in spite of writing memes all day”. After that, I wandered ... Phantom with the Reawakening at East Campus. If I had to sum it up in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  to work on it. So Kim, who is a good painter, asked me if I wanted help ... new apartment and painting there. I, of course, agreed that this was a ... student interested in painting your room, I know of four dorms that allow

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  so far: "Ye knowe ek that in forme of speche is chaunge Withinne a ... . In college, I think it's important to take classes that are special, in ... and very special. But I want to start by introducing a class that isn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  dancing." Adam's line of reasoning is that once you're in a relationship ... everyone says that you can buy anything in the convenience store, but how do ... ! I eat about 10 meals a week on campus -- that is, breakfast and lunch

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  . i was either in a powerful enough place where i could slip into that ... led to that very introduction. But, I’ll touch on that in a bit. I was ... have any say in how things were run. I didn’t have big plans to do

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  't pile up. Even so, I keep thinking that I can do this now, sure. I'm a ... , killed Alexander the Great? Pfft, I said, a mosquito, everyone knows that. They wrote it in this picture book I read in third grade. Turns out that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  that I have a "Blog Tracking" table. This is just a linked, filtered ... how I wanted my agenda to look. Being limited to a single view. My ... summer, I finally started using Notion! It's an all-in-one workspace that

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  .716" is way too much for me. How do you even say that out loud? Isn't it ... one box, so you can imagine that I have quite a lot of work to do over ... organized in one handy folder, but since I already bored you with that topic

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  a dorm has a ball pit, I need to stay in it, because it is ... a funny story that I'll share shortly). So, from the beginning: I ... was actually seeing people in person that I've been seeing online

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  claims: "I'm not sure if wrapping the campus in a petroleum product is the ... guide on "How to Do CPW", and I heard it was "amusing" though I was really ... 's expensive." I’ve changed my mind since then, and think it is a genuinely

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  1928 Olympics in Amsterdam. Do you have cheerleaders? This, I guess, is ... a football team? Is there a football stadium? Do you have cheerleaders ... weekend, but I know the team is hopeful for the season. Is there a football

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006