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• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  share with us.   Q5) How do I send in my source code? How do I send ... , while I've been making things in my spare time, we've also been getting a ... than 2 minutes in runtime. Many different projects would fit the bill

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  reality, it's just that I don't know how to learn. I've realized that my ... , I've felt like a fake at MIT. That I fit in socially and I have great ... of fears swirling in my head being at this school. I praise it every

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  how much I fucked up in the first half of the semester, and one month of ... I would, but perhaps the same life lesson can hit you in waves, each ... lungs wheezed for air, someday I would reach that place, the place where

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  and I am complacent. My freshman year I remember being so in awe of how ... , Cami, I totally would but out of respect for Raymond, I won't." So how ... been someone that has traveled in a pack. In high school, I had a group

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  said to me. i do not know how much of what i have said i now own, but in ... it is. i stand there with the cube in my hand, my brain going, is it ... telling it because i find it funny. how a silly little review can make a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  in scale was dramatic. I knew that it would be: when I solicited advice ... north parking lot at 3:45am. So that’s how I found myself bundled up in ... I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  ^-^ Abby: “been to verdes after 2 am”: I had a radio show from 1-2 in the morning my freshman fall and would often stop at verdes to shop in a ... finish one of my 6.009 labs, so I submitted a confession in mostly cap lock

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  existed, and I'm kind of glad I didn't because I think I would have gone ... upset about how everyone was trading their "stats" like I used to trade baseball cards in my kindergarten days. I guess the whole point is MIT looks

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  experience has been positive. i guess i lucked out, in a sense, when i have a somewhat good experience talking to my counselor. i first mentioned this in a ... , i don’t notice any pattern in when the thoughts come. when i wake up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  hermit in a cave in Hong Kong after graduation. I proclaimed that I would ... Now that I'm a junior in college, I'm supposed to be almost an adult ... apparently, this means I'm going to have to go find a job- also in the real

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Doing well??? Uh, sure... I guess

  

  In my last post (which was way too long ago 😖), but I guess I should ... ! I never would have guessed. Even though, I still have a lot for work ... dropped 9.00. It was interesting, but I wasn't in the mood to write an essay

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  one. when i was applying to be a blogger i wrote this in my blogger ... frequently. all in a week's work, right? to wail and complain about how ... , floor pi alumni. and it's neat how i can say, oh, wait, nelson knows about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  write a follow up in one or two days about how I used Fireflies to help ... sit at a computer for hours writing out an entire post in one sitting. I ... I was sitting in the Media Lab when I saw in the news that Fireflies

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  , in the world of math, while I was deriving the equations for the heat ... question. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck ... Name the song I stole the lyrics from and win a cookie. So this week

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  , and how many hours I would put into studying, I would never feel like I ... dependent on how good I was at it, not in general and not in comparison to ... , we are going to… well, you’ll see. Danny: “Now, I don't know” is how

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  BBQ in the history of the universe. I should warn you that I saw Le Divorce on Thursday, so I'm feeling a little, how do you say, francophone at ... many summers I spent in Grenoble. They had some fantastic vin de noix, je

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  , where I would get most of my meals from networking events with free food ... everything went my way. I did have a lot of hardships in both the school of MIT and the school of life. But I never stopped moving forward. That's how

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  the tenths place)! But if I got a B in any one of them it would stay the ... all day, while I was sitting in my classes slowly passing out from sleep ... calculating last year that if I got an A in every one of my six classes this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  , with whom we would perform at CAVS later in the term, although we didn ... Davis Square in Somerville to Harvard Square in Cambridge. As I mentioned ... giant paintings in giant frames, buying giant food, baking a giant cake

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  it stayed in java i would not be a 6-3 right now. i love typescript ... less bad downs look better in comparison. i don't know. i don't know how ... would've enjoyed it. i keep wondering, would i have liked it more? and in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021