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• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  are an adventurer ascending a spire in order to slay it. Your cards ... lacks in those departments it more than makes up for in its gameplay ... consistent draw? Should I trade half my health in this event for some powerful

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  to feed my brain. I requested an absentee ballot for the primaries in ... find it in my backpack less than an hour later. Great news! My PI is ... photo so that people can search for them. The pictures in this post come

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  and sign up for ten groups, because, hey, you did ten things in high ... inclined to waste time on the internet. A blatant plug for cheerleading An ... the first day of the class and have the professor sign an Add Form for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  in a choir. The Boston Conservatory is running a program for high ... members in the area to fill in for vocal parts that are underrepresented ... horizon[/annotation] for the same measure taking place in the academic

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  dozen games of Traitor Mechanic in a single night, an absurdly challenging ... to be, and gives an example of how some people in Floor Pi used to play ... Student Center to this big lecture hall in Building 4, 4-270, and if not for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  breakfast? Go for it! Don't want to go to class? You won't get in trouble ... 've got for you (get it? tips? in a finance blog? eh? ok nevermind). So here ... pay for, put some in savings, and budget the rest as you feel fit. It

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  day of class. I know! It was terribly embarrassing. But I'm not an EECS ... needed to go, turned around, walked around searching as if I were looking for a trash can, and then walked into the room. I am so smart. And I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  interviews. in the third episode, darryl, the interviewee, is an ex-convict who ... of not having money than about actually wanting money for something. in ... see pretty often in other people - for instance, people wanting to be in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  a look: Amazing Guest Lecturers Dr. Harish Hande is a pioneer in ... busy to help the person beside us in a pset that dragged on for too long ... session for the froshies in anticipation for the 8.01 midterm. It is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  schools). The course that I took at Harvard was in the spring term, for ... know this continuity in housing is especially beneficial for MIT's large ... 't checked because generally we're looking for it to come separately. I'd be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  making contact with this molten mess would be quite unfortunate for both ... completely proper, but LOOK HOW HOT THIS IS!!! OMG!!!!!11!1! You may be ... is not sticking the glass back in the furnace. &amp

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2022 Wait List An update for students who accepted a place on our wait list

  

  looking to work with our community. Thank you for all the wonderful updates ... be able to make plans for their college enrollment with as little ... from the wait list without exceeding our enrollment capacity for the year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  signing up for it.  It sounded pretty shiny.  In classical me mode, my first ... . Don't worry about flaps, there aren't any in this plane. Keep for the ... active in.  (I learned to fly pre-MIT and probably won't have much time to

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  until eight, I saw someone running outside in a t-shirt. She looked rather ... for up to one hour. It feels like being in limbo — everything should be ... dorm. Good thing, that, because we can't leave the dorms, save for one

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  the rest of my life is meeting an anxious end. I'm still in the same ... asked in an advising survey whether or not my freshman year "met my expectations." I decided it was sort of an unreasonable question, in that there

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  an Albertsons parking lot and dislocated my knee. For the first time, I ... appreciation for the people and experiences in my life. To my to-be college ... to look like. Instagram feeds filled with beating rays of sunshine

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  only a gentle 10 mile skate. I look away, embarrassed for her and think ... everything I need for months of travel in just one backpack with my skates ... looking forward to this trip for years, I spent the day mentally managing my

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  combining two images together in a way that looks seamless and natural as ... to reflect an aspect of human cognition in some way. Unfortunately, I ... I had four final projects this past semester. As busy as I was for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  structure in constant, intermittently blinding dust storms. I'd look up and ... with it, I just can't imagine a class laying such an egg in my schedule ... picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  MIT. You can always check how your essays look in the PDF preview, which is ... and international students.   It’s mid-October in Cambridge ... , and several thousand people are in the process of applying to MIT. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013