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• Blog / Challenges

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  many "failures" served as catalysts for personal growth. In the wake of ... thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track ... day for my entire senior year (beginning in November when I started

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  analytical theory for a moment and ground what I'm saying in some concrete ... medalist, who also happened to get an 800! The same goes for people who are ... -800 range. It's a subtle distinction, but an important one in understanding

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  composed the draft right away in a stroke of inspiration—an occurrence so ... in the works, but I might need another Yultide for motivation to finish ... . Also in this post, I showed my face for the first time without hiding

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  relations. It turns out that in Navajo culture, it is possible for an eighteen ... neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... ’ve been out here for two and a half weeks now. I’ve seen seniors in Algebra

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... supposed to have an Educational Counselor interview for another college. I ... that. For the first time in a while, I was facing a stressful situation

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  happily sleep for longer.I  never pulled an all-nighter during my time at ... ally looks and how empathy factor in. What happened in the last dream you ... that language, so what does it mean when I dream up an experiment in the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the ... selection process that students initiate by applying for admission in the ... for all. I grew up in Florida. The state is flat. There are no mountains

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  about the feeling of walking down an empty hallway. In the fall, the empty ... in a way that ultimately is best for me? These are questions that I ... In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  has made me feel like an imposter in the science research community ... Thursday; I had spent an hour in rapture, as our professor read us a piece he ... hours giving me a crash course in the linear algebra one needs to know for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate ... , even if i looked forward to it for weeks. three. "how do you sail, then ... being in a position of good fortune. five. for the past few days, i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  definitely in the clear for the programs I was looking at, 80th for verbal and ... it, here’s my probably-more-comprehensive-than-you-were-looking-for ... , in general. Where you end up for grad school has less to do with the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  remainder of your prefroshly days, for once in my brief but glorious ... stay in hell Sam looking back at undergrad Keri on getting the most out ... don't formally have the prerequisites for. Go look at the curriculum

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  officers showed in you when they selected you for admission, it is not really ... it this far if you didn't have someone in your corner. For some it is a ... as true in college admission circles as it is anywhere else that it

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  Admissions Office for an official meeting (with INTENSE snacking involved). In ... a great option for people looking for very passive income so that you ... have previously received an A/A+ in a class might be asked to be a grader

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  Boston. Anecdote 3: One of my friends who lives in an apartment in a bit ... around for an hour until 7pm, when I was allowed back on (the reason the ... me back in for free since I had already paid once. Anecdote 5

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  so glad I got to take part in an MIT tradition that I’ll get for the ... show for the MIT community. In 2021, even former MIT president Rafael ... definitely stood in the corner furiously looking around us while Andi did the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  -tool-cum-participatory-art-installation for our final project. What you're looking at is a rendering of my team's Credit For Reddit final project (click for hi-res), in which we ... So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  but useful for me -- for example, an IRC bot that broadcasts shuttle ... , Thursday nights will often devolve in the following manner for the less ... something useful to your profile in the near future, I experimented with an

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  lie and say that was me. In real life, I am an opinionated, fast ... and the air is so clean. I miss looking for dogs from missing posters ... some friends. We stood in line for hours next to a sixteen year old who

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

   I experienced Splash this year. For reasons I’ll talk about later in this post ... ’s some contents: Part 1: Hi, are you interested in teaching for Splash ... interested in teaching for Splash? No ESP work allowed Part 2: Twelve

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019