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• Blog / Challenges

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  . Math Competition X that I never made the cut off for. Oh and Math ... trouble and for the past three and a half years, I missed opportunities to ... better on? LOSS OF POTENTIAL. DISAPPOINTMENT. BAGGAGE. For the past three

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  common area for the night. However, common areas on campus and in labs are ... Random Hall. Software for playing Magic: The Gathering online for free ... , and doesn't hurt your pinky from pressing the control key for everything

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... 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

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  finally... (10) If you're ever lost in Boston, just look towards the water ... Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I ... we have wacky (modern? postmodern?) buildings, the best river views in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  was also one of the toughest for me to master, when I did improv at ... , I'm also deeply sarcastic; it's naturally easier for me to play the ... orientation for the class of 2015, in late August. You can see why these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  lists. The app asks students for their basic information: test scores ... customized equations for about 1,500 schools that it developed using the ... ask for complete strangers on the Internet to assess their likelihood of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  , for I was one of the gamemasters and have more content to share :D For ... 've been running these games with 2W for the last few weeks, and it's been ... liked it so much that he was willing to fund prizes for the rest of the

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  all the classes are good classes. Look for good mentors! This can be ... time in the quiet company of your own mind. Look for new music. Read a ... schedule for spontaneous things. Don’t overcommit at the beginning. It

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

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

  

  of the things that the Splash directors were looking for were ... , the legend, has taught for Splash. And this will be yet another post ... Splash is to explain both its scale and the classes. For one, Splash is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  this entry. I've been biding my time, waiting for this day and the ... limbo of deferral. This entry is for the deferred. This entry is my story ... questions (What do you do for the pleasure of it? Which department or program

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  for 3.5 years and from looking through the results of this survey - that ... and for humankind. Someday, we’ll look back on these four years as the ... Pressure." You should take the time to check out all the results, but for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for ... the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a ... the tune of $9.25 per hour. I took notes for this guy who broke his arm

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him ... the name of the author. Let’s call him (again, for privacy) William ... notice him. And then for Shakespeare to actually send the book…” She

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 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 for the agonizing six weeks following October 31. And then, I got this ... the time senior year of high school rolled around that I wasn't looking

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  or noteworthy for the blogs. (Also to organize ... from 1969 (or so the label said), and it looks like a bunch of old ... Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  . After receiving the Marshall Scholarship to attend postgrad in the UK for ... for me to go.’ While the answer sufficed through its cynicism, a kind of ... directions for the Georgetown campus. Several days of meeting ambassadors

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself ... )—on Tuesday night, I went to see Vince Staples for the second time, which was ... over the years. I am grateful for all the memories and laughs we

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  wanted a look into classes, I kind of summarized mine at the beginning of ... picture from my seat on the bus without looking too strange.   9:56am ... course) for the blogs after the semester's over, so I'll write more about

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  ="attachment_84090" align="alignnone" width="300"] look at how 3-D the leaf is ... show," insinuated the prof. That week, I promptly looked up the show and ... [/caption] I started looking for inspiration and was pleased to find that while

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  ’s your orientation, in the literal sense. This is what the campus looks ... branches off in the end at Building 8. It’s a pretty important hallway for ... makes no sense to me why it’s called the Infinite. Again, look at that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020