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• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  feelings that were washing over me in waves. Instead of getting straight to ... I had trained myself to overcome last year. Instead, I sat in the ... longer under my control. Week four was when things started to get hairy

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.

  

  stairs once you get to the end of the hallway. Unfortunately, this concept ... jumping from side to side. To their credit, they did so quickly, but in ... it a year and a half ago, I knew that the best place to check it out

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  individual merits. Maybe they'd both get in. Maybe neither would get in. And of ... , I don't care about how much financial aid we'll have to give you ... first in their family to attend college (like I was), more students who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  afraid to get to the heart of issues. So in the spirit of Charlie Rose ... Valley with a population over 4,000 students. How did you get to MIT? I ... shouldn’t be able to get into a top school too. So in 10th grade, MIT

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  , you push in firmly to force the clay up and down until it reaches a ... positionings, especially when it comes to centering. In the class, we were ... the larger lumps, and I started using both hands to keep the clay in

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  himself) back in Ohio to fend for themselves. Perhaps they will have to hunt ... just sounds cool.) My mom arrived in Boston at 5 PM, just in time to eat ... we haven't had time to go grocery shopping in a while, and fresh

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  ' return to campus, I reveled in the laughter and greetings heard down the ... . How supportive are MIT faculty in encouraging students' ideas? What ... seminar was arriving. They were encouraged to play with the models in the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  vacation and professors were trying to get to a stopping point before ... semester doesn’t look like it’s going to be any easier. In fact, I got some unexpected good news yesterday from my UROP supervisor—I get to attend CHI

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  getting to the drive-in window where the lady says, "Here's your Big Mac ... in the blogs about how important your living group is to your MIT ... means that you have to live in that dormitory for the year (unlike

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

   size (i.e. how many) points there are in the shadows of $A$, can we get a ... sets in $\mathbb{R}^2$), and in fact it is! To see just how good out ... between points and lines that Andi alluded to in his post on duality (though

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  , and I haven't been to 6.0001 lecture in two weeks. Actually, most of ... of time management. For me to put in the maximum amount of work into ... impossible right now. Life is now mostly a choice of how to spend my time the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  and, like, get your PhD in doing that. 6. Why bother to photograph and ... cricket? 5. How can we best improve our nation's economy? 6. Why bother to ... inter-floor activity fund whereby the entire dorm gets $3000 a term to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  kind of situation) is to make lots of plans, so I had ’em ready in spades: I imagined, as realistically as I could, how it would feel to be ... I wanted to open my decision alone so we could get the argument out of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Holidays And some final thoughts before the new year

  

  ’m getting to see how much everyone has grown. However, Reflecting back, I ... was crazy. Time for holiday cheer. But no time to get lazy. 2nd ...   ★ To think That one year ago, MIT said “Yes, you can go

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  burn and itch in my mind, the things that I can't seem to get enough of ... time. Two of her kids are old enough to be in school now, but she ... ; far be it from me to weigh in on it with empirical evidence. But what I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  projects. Thing that we could do on campus to get students excited about ... out how to make my Guitar Hero guitar work as a MIDI controller, just ... can play it, and you could set the buttons to play certain notes in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  time, I've forgotten how to blog. So in true "first post" style.. there ... random rock-paper-scissor tournaments, assaulting people to get them interested in working for MIT's ambulance - "HEY! RYAN! YOU WANT TO RIDE AN

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  reason. First semester is on pass/no record (P/NR) in order to give ... probably take you a while to get used to college life and on P/NR you ... to use Freshman P/NR to take the absolute hardest classes and get them

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  would be writing this blog post to you. But that isn't how life works ... else who had gotten into MIT and struggled to meet other kids. In ... 't know how to confess these reasons, because they seemed so shallow

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  ), please contact Michael Yang in the Admissions Office to request the extension, and be sure to also be in touch with your financial aid officer ... 've already said NO to MIT: Thank you for having applied; it was great getting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013