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• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  much now, because I got into MIT which I would've chosen over that school ... In sixth grade, even if you had a crush on someone, you would never ... , which is why I have always found the advice "the worst thing that can

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  increasingly turning over and over the knowledge that I would have to leave. But ... having a chance to say goodbye, another person I would never again bump ... Last Sunday, one week ago, I moved out of East Campus. The hours

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  would have. That Real Analysis exam really changed the way I viewed tests ... same week, and in some cases the same day, and I felt overwhelmed beyond ... arrived, I feel ready for the next two months of school before the summer

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  I’ve learned many things after coming to MIT. But among the differential equations and op amp PSETs, I’ve learned how to take care of myself ... servo motors. I learned how to use KiCAD (pcb design software) after

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  there. But I don't have to live there. And even if I would have drawn it ... to D√Љsseldorf this weekend, I forget why, but the thing that we were ... . Ling: "Why are you taking a picture of this sign?" Sam: "So I don

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An American Idol Math Question You guys are all good in math; help me out with this one.

  

  pointed this out last night, and unless I'm missing something, I agree with ... it was a 3-way tie. Let's do the math, and please correct me if I ... to register their votes for each contestant? This would explain why

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  I've been crossing things off my master to-do list (nerd alert) and there's one item I've been staring at guiltily for far too long: blogging. As it turns out, this semester was.....well....I learned a lot of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  I would! I read: The Hating Game by Sally Thorne - I am a sucker ... resolutions I couldn't accomplish due to the pandemic, but since the world has adapted since then, I was able to do them! I'll be including the 2020

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  think i talk about how much i love my UROP in like, every blog post i make ... this is the third IAP i've spent on MIT. trust me, i really tried to get away, but my research called to me and i decided to forego a bunch

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Vindicated! And the summer of FREEdom begins. (Pictures added)

  

  I'm in Boston until the end of next week for some meetings for the ... , when you don't have psets, you go to concerts right? How about free ... did not play my favorite song =[) Awesome, right? EDIT: I'm going to do

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  ask! Seriously, you can ask us anything [annotation note="I know this is ... be about MIT, or how our days have been, what we ate for breakfast, etc ... (Class of '25, he/him)Hi everyone! I’m Andi, a 6-2 (Electrical Engineering

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day!!! 3.14159!

  

  .14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510..................... How many digits do you know? More to come later today about how MIT celebrates Pi Day. How do you celebrate Pi Day ... sponsored a Pi Day Celebration of sorts. This was the email I received

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a bachelor of science and a master of engineering. In which I make a Voltaire reference and the soup is a metaphor but luckily…

  

  My thesis is done. It is 384 pages long, 2.0833% of them text, 4.9479% of them pictures, and 90.365% of them code.         Here is potato soup,…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ‘Twas the Night before Finals Likely the highlight of my literary career. And some words of advice to EA.

  

  , and all through the ‘tute, You would think that the students had all ... hoping for at least one 5 AM rest; And I with my physics, roommates with ... there arose such a clatter, I sprang to my Mac to see what was the matter

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  So, you’re applying to college.

  

  ." If only I were to get in, I thought, I'd be set. My life would be made ... , you probably aren't. For well over a year, from my rural roost, I sort of idealized MIT. The more I read, the more I learned, the more I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 31, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

    One warm night last summer, my roommate Penny ‘24 and I were ... to grab our ankles without warning.  Naturally, Penny thought it would ... got this. No matter what happens, I’m so proud of you already for

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  I'm back on campus! I just finished my 10-week internship at the New York Times, which at one point made me use so much Rails I had dreams about it. I also did good amount of UI/UX and product design for an intern

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unfold I met my blog muse while doing the laundry, and then came this entry.

  

  person who found it could probably tell the story of how I've spent my 27 ... So as a sanity break, I often take a break from work and such and fold clothes. I promise that the repeated act of folding one sleeve

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch Ceri on SciShow! teenage mutant YOUTUBE NERDFIGHTERS

  

   as part of a science quiz series. I watched it and found equal parts educational and adorkable so I thought I would post it here too as a little ... Longtime readers (i.e., those of you who didn't first tune into the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!

  

  depressed and start asking yourself "Why am I here? What am I doing with my life?" I was a bit down in the dumps when I got this email from my mom ... the coolest bridge ever? I'm not Course 1 (Civil and Environmental

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 18, 2005