Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  tell us how you will do? To get a more balanced view we ask you to also ... here loves to use formulas as much as possible, and in every scenario ... Delta. This simply means Learning Delta. Before you write in to challenge

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  , you want to make a choice that leads to the least regret. So, how else ... yourself in different worlds and try to predict the outcome based on the ... ’ve started to realize that I tend to trap myself in this view of the world

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  worry about how things will look to us.   In the last few weeks, I have ... disruption. We always strive to evaluate applicants fairly in their context, especially in times like these. I'm writing today to reaffirm what Chris said

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How can I get a course catalog?

  MIT has an online course catalog called the Bulletin that provides details about MIT, the campus, and undergraduate programs, including requirements and course descriptions for majors/minors.
• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  how hard MIT is going to be? Do you think they're scared to get to ... way to get more mattresses than that. I beg to differ. In a few days ... generally going out of our minds trying to get things done. This is ok though

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  chose to do the work. We wake up in the morning and before we even get out ... ’t even know where to start. Soon they’re going to realize how insanely ... everything will get fucked up. If you can’t study now, how will you ever

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  give me the ability to run up walls. But the whole get up did greatly ... really cool.       Feel free to tell me how awesome I am. ... confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  . Who would have thought I'd need to remember how to do things like factoring polynomials and calculating the area of circles? I'm trying to get ... Just thought I'd reiterate, for anyone who's applying to MIT this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  thought to myself: easy! If I was able to get 5s on my APs and As in my ... will offer advice on how to succeed, unless you’re me, in which case they ... live with the fact that most things aren’t going to turn out how you

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  ’d like to get there eventually from the answer is not a hut in the woods ... brutal. i was reeling from moving to a new city and living in a house with ... figure out how to think about feelings and communication more clearly, i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  classes get rejected. Why? Because often these kids knew how to grind, but ... enough to post it here as well: As with most of my posts in the parents ... want to, or simply because you think it will get you into college

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  "gerrymandering" means*. (okay, I also wanted to live in the most Democratic Congressional district in the nation according to the Cook PVI index, which is NY ... bit strange to realize that most of the people in my class had taken a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  situation in Germany. So, since we didn't quite get to the haircut unit in ... things to look out for in a university, and they're all great. But there ... machines? How many are there? How much do they cost? At MIT, at least in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  edifice to build that theory. To answer this we think in terms of languages ... have languages, we want to think about how, given a string, we would ... get a bit more complicated but this is related to the idea that there

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  hard kicks in the face. (Remind me to tell you about how I failed my swim ... applied to MIT in the first place. And now that you're in and you've sent ... get in on the action even if you think that throwing a pot can be

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  because i expect to be worth a billion dollars in the future. rather, what i ... . i don’t have much to show for my time in college other than a ... unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  in that class, this pset will take ~forever. I need to finish it before ... ) So that's my week. I need to get back to 2.001 now, hopefully I can ... work to do (let me rephrase that. . . .AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  's acronymal third letter! At MIT, you get to choose your own T. Most students ... program for teens who want to get into MIT right after middle school. The ... the harder subjects for the senior-year projects when we get to use real

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  time to get lost. Not in the grand sense of the word, either, just that ... , honor me.   Do you remember in spring how your body wasn’t your ... desperate for sun. there was nothing to eat that wasn’t smothered in grease

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  pretend   fight me if my past self could talk to me We thrash in ... far to drink? how dare I complain about thirst when a sea of knowledge ... the sky in fury wanting to do everything and nothing all at once.  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 7, 2023