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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  rushed coffee break in the middle of the 10am-4pm seminar block. I have ... —who knows if I’ll also have to critique a speaker's paper in front of them ... on the math department carpet—in my defense, how could you pay

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  [/annotation] how much writing I’ve done in just the past month for classes ... yesterday. In this paper, I analyzed how general relativity progress was both ... for me in a way that I haven’t done since college applications

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  . Yeah... But I was lucky and only had 5 exams since I came in during the ... ... who would stay in the library until midnight and be back in the library ... did I realize... In true Cambridge fashion, projects have turned out

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  . KN6OQK” how I got here I picked up ham radio as a hobby during ... bit."]ARES[/annotation] for fun. When I was in high school, everyone I ... , radios fell out of fashion. tetazoo I thought the ham population would be

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  's tempered by the fact that I look so outstandingly bad in all of them. Still ... school on Friday Now, here's what I have to do in the three days I'm home ... 's a quiz on Wednesday that I really would like to do well on something

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  created to measure. Maybe I’m just a nerd who has taken a lot of tests in ... was going to take me on, so there would be no surprises, and I would ... gotten into a (minor) accident by the ripe age of 19. In a way, I was

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  r e~ made me realize how accustomed to MIT campus i’d become in the ... essential. in Sloan Business Club's Board Education Program, which I talk ... the MIT Bubble. when i heard this, i realized how unaware of what

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  good. but maybe it would've been better if i spent that time working on ... friends. and i only have so many hours in a weekend. and then. then there ... , wondering what would've happen if i'd chosen that instead. and it'd just be so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  . How I felt in those moments. How I talked myself out of it. Etc. Etc ... that well in 6.145. Sure, I got an A, but how much of that did I really ... events of the past week. But to sum it up I thought I'd put it in short

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  myself for some reason. I was so self-conscious of how I would be perceived ... I've written in the past about my love for Disneyland. Growing up a ... in that region."]Japan[/annotation] and getting upset when I saw my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  for High School students. I won't describe the program itself in too ... shavings in my hair and sawdust on my jeans. I had grand plans for our team ... team captain, in my junior year, as well as coach for our drive team. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  "How to not be afraid of everything" by Jane Wong. I read this book in ... pretty bad..."]any tabs[/annotation] in the last 3 years, since I got my ... , gradescope, canvas, "<enter any city I have lived in the last 3 years

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  ball of hurt I carry with me, a part of the constant calculus I engage in ... wisdom, but I’ve certainly done it. So here, in a collection of vignettes ...   I like telling people that I’m a six-foot-tall man in my head. I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply as a permanent resident?

  citizenship status. In the MIT first-year admissions process, you are considered ... applications from students in the process of waiting for their green cards. If there is a change in your citizen status during the application process
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  INTRO First things first, I have to post this, as promised in an ... entry. It's amazing to compare how I act and write now with some of my ... when I got here. How much of that is MIT related and how much of that is

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  . And I certainly wasn't thinking about how it would all look on a college ... ). What would I like to see: inasmuch as Stanford says their students ... AP tests. I am, however, disturbed that anyone would advocate

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  . If we spent all our time studying, how would we have time to be in all ... Recently, in my wanderings around the internet (that is to say, the College Confidential message boards), I've noticed an abundance of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  and how we may be able to replicate intelligence in machines. 6-9 is an ... -9 would be ✨perfect✨ for what I wanted. When my student advisor suggested ... -3,[/annotation] I thought I didn't even need to consider the chance that I would

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  previous IAPs have been really fun. In freshman year, I did [annotation note ... "]SEVT[/annotation]. In sophomore year, I helped with the Pi Day video animation and grinded for Battlecode with two of my friends. In junior year, I worked on a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Wangoballwime?” C'mon. You know what this entry is about. Check out the title!

  

  would outweigh anything else. I obviously had no idea how hard my 18 ... gesturing towards in this picture, hang on. We'll get to that. As I hope you ... afternoon about a month ago, there was a knock on my door. When I opened it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2005