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• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  class. I would, in a heartbeat, tell any underclassmen friendo that you ... would've said if I were in his position. I quickly thanked him and made a ... else, I want to make it clear that in my opinion, the class itself was a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  the MIT early decision would be released. I ate all of them. They didn ... where I felt I was meant to go, imagining how I’d install a WiFi enabled LED Matrix on my dorm door, how I’d bring my cooking to my friends. It

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  item in your hands and say, I know how this was made, or so you can look ... swimming in the back of my mind as I scootered across the bridge to my test ... . Puddles of water sprayed up onto my backpack, and I wondered if I would be

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  just how exhausted I was, from just over a month of being at college. It’s not just academic exhaustion. If it were, I would know how to handle it ... ’t think I actually fully realized just how much it all is until the first

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  an MIT student so i can't really get a glimpse of how life is in MIT ... one in class of 09/10 who is from india??i am sure there would be many but how should i contact them?? Hmm, that's a bit tricky. I would email

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  choice because we didn’t know which groups would respond in time and weren ... the concert, which would’ve been painful and would have resulted in very ... different locations would hear different mixes. then i had the idea of setting

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  in general. I would be remiss if I did not also welcome parents to our ... I say welcome! Come on in, the water is just fine. I hope that you ... student in the class standing up in front telling everyone how he or she

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  wanted to work at Disney, but I didn’t how to get there or anyone in LA or ... I was the director this is how I would want the scene to look, and you ... canonically they did meet in college?”] Yes. [laughing continues] But I would

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  in quarantine, and I will tell her about Boston: how I wasn’t prepared ... masks. I hadn't been to that park in forever, which isn’t all that surprising, given that I’ve only lived in Tucson half the year. My cousins

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  open-book like how it used to be. You know what would happen? I would ... the way that MIT changed my brain. And I would turn that test in blank ... fixed. For three straight weekends in June, I went on hikes. My road

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  to interact with it in a big way, I wouldn’t have come to MIT. I would ... rocky Appalachians. I was all over the place. The meditation camp in New ... . Happy. And that above is mostly how I felt. Then I went back to Mc

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving in England Celebrating a North American holiday in Britain.

  

  I'd write about celebrating an American holiday in Britain. Although to be honest, instead of thinking, "Wow I've been in England for 2 ... 've got to say I would've rather served myself instead of being served. We

  • by Cambridge
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  video, I couldn’t help dreaming about how I would use the tool, and how ... platforms: How can we present content in the most intriguing way? How do we ... automatically score them? How can we organize and visualize data in a way that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  In May 2016, I wrote Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later, where I shared the story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done ... worked out okay. In 2014, we denied another student, whom I'll call CT. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  all the (hopefully) awesome entries I'll be putting up in the next few ... decided to go to MIT. In some ways, I am still surprised I got in to MIT ... mistake and make sure it doesn't happen again. (Ask me how I know.) Sorry

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  , that pursuing skating and MIT meant I would be subpar in both, not able ... ankle the week before, and wasn't sure how much I would be able to perform ... pursue the sport. I had no idea what I was getting myself into, how I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  . firstly, people mostly take classes in only their own major. i had the ... holes. so an example of a not-complete space would be rational numbers. i ... and then, there would be no limit point for this sequence in the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  would finally realize how stupid I was and how misguided they had been to ... as chances to clarify misunderstandings and learn how I could improve ... updates and discuss what you’ll do in the coming week. I’ve been fortunate

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  honesty I don’t think I would have noticed my school's lack in drive if I ... high school. In fact I loved my high school. No matter where I went or ... early morning emails telling me where I might have potential flaws in my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  dream in which i miss[annotation note="i'm leaving in eight days, next ... is painted blue; i feel deliciously underwater."]open my eyes[/annotation]in ... in six minutes anyway. 9.24 - 9.35 am: i check my email and catch up

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019