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• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  schedule around, and get ready for the semester to actually start, all in the ... 5 on AP Calculus BC in high school, so I was expecting to get credit ... decent background in calculus, I would be able to get through it quickly

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  (like to get into a school or to get that job offer or, in our case, to ... WOULD BE LYING IF WE SAID WE WEREN'T TRYING TO GET STUDENT RUSH TICKETS ... ! We get to the Boston Opera House at around 12:15ish, almost 2 hours

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  to just trying to find time to rest but really not...getting any. This ... get extremley red and I would scratch it to the point where my skin ... campus living at MIT, I would try to never study in Random. I found it was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  GTLs is a great way to explore teaching – you get to try teaching very ... me you now have 8 more tabs to MIT Admissions blog posts open in your ... to the GTL programs, which place MIT students in host families, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the ... year? It is impossible to know. We will have no idea how many people we ... three years. It is hard to know beforehand exactly how many students will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  -vaccines and terrified to interact with anyone outside my household, in a lot of ... always going in the wrong direction no matter how hard you try. When I ... through air, to breathe clearly, to be awake instead of trapped in a dream

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  was "I went to the mall and bought a pretty shirt." So, in my fifth ... me that every scientist should know German in order to be able to read ... , and while that's a great opportunity too, I didn't want to become too

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Thanksgiving! Holiday wishes and fun stuff.

  

  Thanksgiving group, including how to fry a turkey. But the awesomest Thanksgiving ... /baker extraordinaire. This week I got her annual Thanksgiving comic in my inbox: Dear ... assistance this Thanksgiving? One place to check out is Instructables (a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  exciting College Adventures™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at ... . What I didn’t realize was that, in the process, I forgot to do things for ... and spent time in different communities, getting the feel for different

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  it now. 6.006: Introduction to Algorithms How to write good code, and ... the first problem set than I ever expected to learn in two weeks. This ... jobs: in addition to my UROP and blogging I am now also a professional

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  of 9 to 1. How do you get time? You write. You argue persuasively for ... you were doing, you could in theory get observation time on the VLA. I say "in theory," because as you can probably imagine, getting time on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  : how close to last am I for PE team picks? Physical education was, to ... , something to poke at: c'mere and look at how weak Camille is. It wasn ... someone to notice that I was adamant on skipping meals because of how I felt

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  you have put in to letting us know how much you love MIT. We know you ... : every year we hope to take students from our waitlist, and we are excited that we are able to admit 28 students this year. Today, at 5PM Eastern

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  , and feeling all right about it because I only had to be somewhere in the ... evening trip to 7-11 in the 30-degree weather - we've figured out that milk ... how much I wanted to come here! - and now I'm here, and it's been two

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  in the Great Hall, waiting for my train to take me away to California ... , IL listening to: the jazz that they’re playing in the station lobby Well, here we are. I’m taking a brief stop in the Great Hall of Union

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  .   4   I have a quote and poem to share. quote "In the ... content warning: mental health, trauma 1   I've been in a funk. A deep funk. It took me awhile to notice. A few long months

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  . It continues to be a great pool of motivated and successful students. Anyway, on to the questions: "It's over! No one gets in RA ... already strong enough to make you a contender in the Regular Action round

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Bill Gates It looks like you're trying to inspire philanthropy...

  

  examples of how MIT students are already involved in making the world a ... the Best Way to Make a Difference. Sadly I was unable to get him to ... Bill Gates was on campus today to speak about the need for innovation

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  (sigh). But, I did get to hang out with my friends in House 1/Chocolate ... ’t want to run in the hall because who does that, but then also you feel ... somewhat similar to junior year of high school, in that I feel I’ve somewhat

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  -deception." "How can a man live in perfect harmony?" To which YISUN replied, "Non ... things i am doing. i'm forced to partition myself, to choose how much soul ... to be great, or perfect, as much as i want to help make promys an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021