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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  I have to relearn how to learn, in a lot of ways. I am grateful that ... course of the semester. I am spending the semester in Detroit; Sao Paulo ... and I am excited to see how it intersects with my coursework at MIT, my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Why I’m Leaving the MIT Admissions Blogs it's been a good run.

  

  got me with it and I knew I would use it one day. Soooo worth the 365 ... , after working on a serious blog post for a few hours, I realized what day it was. Smugness crept onto my face as I began thinking of what comical

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  : "Um. I don't know anything about that, sorry. And the guy who does is in ... (100 yards) in droves, and receive a free t-shirt as a reward for not ... plausible, not because you didn't know how to swim but because your ankle was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Ultimate Showdown Making important college purchase #1

  

  which can be interpreted as both good and bad. The good: I was limited in ... 're about to head off to college, and you're thinking to yourself, do I need a laptop or a desktop? I too faced the same question 3 years ago, and thus

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  . Committee starts in February. If I was missing a teacher rec would I ... what I would have done without you. This situation sucked for all of us ... know this. I confirmed as of this evening (Wednesday) that admits in at

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  in her dress, you marvel at how green the material of her outfit is ... This past semester I took Intro Psychology at MIT with Professor ... of the most interesting and fun lectures I've ever had at MIT. As a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  together No Miguel That is a good idea I believe in us That would be really ... So if I take them now, I would really struggle to wake for the sunrise ... summer I'm in the IAP program Ohhhhh You plan to do misti after graduating

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  or to find myself shivering in a heated room; I often go to sleep with ... 'm tired. The last time I blogged about classes, I was enrolled in six; I ... -athlete. The job has been trying in the cases when I've had to edit work that is

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  was booked all morning so i scheduled an appointment at 3:15 in the ... , shopping and eating lunch. i saw the verizon employees on strike in front of ... wilson essay on reconstruction while i was in the waiting room (it

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  on the floor I realized I was in the wrong classroom, and the right ... , I’m Lydia. I’m a sophomore. I’m in courses 6-7 and 18. I’m not in 7 ... 11 last Wednesday, on Leap Day. I’m turning 20 in less than two weeks

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

  New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering

  

  —  in this topic, I wanted to make a quick blog post letting everyone know ... institutional behavior. Many of the best jobs held by leaders in the field, will ... problem, an expanding set of exciting career opportunities are emerging in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  -spaced pages in Word later, everything made sense. Or at least I hope it did ... prior. I hear Kayla '12 get up in the room next to mine, and she soon ... one morning - I'm still constantly awed at how beautiful the change of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  . I became interested in songwriting after listening to Olivia Rodrigo ... among dark churning waves. In tenth grade, I entered a writing contest ... for years, like how I felt trapped between the dichotomy of being a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  ...which makes me think of how much time i had this summer to do things!! i took ... looking back makes me feel like i'm in another universe right now. i mean ... week and walking to classes every day, but now i just sit in my room

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  statistically irrelevant, in my opinion. (It would be different if there were one ... You guys are all good in math; help me out with this one. My mom pointed this out last night, and unless I'm missing something, I agree with

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  Sorry I haven't posted in such a long time. You see, I've been very ... with what's going on in the UA. And I'm in the Assassins' Guild's ten ... SpazBot, in pegboard form. I think Spazbot is trying to read green

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  well, to see who might be interested. I found five who would be around ... ... check it out! Let us know what you think, either in the comments section ... came up last semester over a lunch meeting at the Forbes Family Cafe in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  -sustaining microcosm of MIT. In it, I’m constantly made aware of how design reaches ... addicting. I never built anything technical in high school, but in my senior ... knowledge to fit in, I was completely thrilled to join the community. In the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  exploding into a primeval scream in the moment I knew my life would never be ... missing my family intolerable. But then I arrived in Cambridge, walked past ... , and fell in love. I sit now between the columns that support the mighty

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  myself from saying that because i'm normal, haha A: in a sense aren't we ... never made any real friends in mit A: oh B: i mean, do you feel like you've made friends in mit A: uh A: i mean A: well, no, not really A: but like A

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022