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• Blog / Challenges

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the ... about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month ... professor about a class presentation. “Cory,” I said to my boyfriend, “nobody

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  scored front row seats to the Indigo Girls at a venue 2 hours away. I didn ... 't count.) Go on dates. Don't feel like every date has to turn into a ... college kids. In the first month of college, send a hand-written letter to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , I can't even seem to get through a day on seven and a half. Knowing ... floor, and I've noticed that there's definitely a cycle: from 2ish to 7 pm ... company, it's a good time to eat. Afterwards, people hang around and talk

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of ... am going to do it." Every little success felt tremendous (what? a note ... things that way. It takes a whole new dimension of gut, though, to hold

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  themselves into a panic because they think they need to prepare for MIT, when ... 's a lot. Do not feel afraid to stop reading all that MIT information ... all to acquire your MIT wings. There's nothing wrong with taking a look

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out ... once upon a time, I wrote a blog comparing the college essay to froyo

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  remembered helping my (sorority) little (sister) on a project she needed to ... to sit my butt down on her linoleum floor for a few hours to help her ... surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  subject of a famous hack in 1991, where hackers hooked up a fire hydrant to ... . Firehose itself became a single word referring to the academic experience ... education from MIT is like…”. I sent a survey to an East Campus mailing list

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me ... supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night ... from that moment that I knew, tonight was going to be a good one

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  sweatpants, and give them to a smiling volunteer holding an enormous bag full ... ground is not. When you run the Boston Marathon, you are assigned to a wave and a corral. I'm wave 4, corral 4. It used to bother me that we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  the day, the facts remained: I wanted to go to School A and I needed to ... how it ever got to the point where I put so much emphasis on a place ... , whose first choice when applying to colleges was admittedly NOT MIT, but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the ... 't have a holistic process. Suppose that we wanted to build an application

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  /aerodynamics lecturer, welcomes us all to a year of Unified Engineering, a year-long, four ... and have been able to rattle off a list of their five favorite airplanes ... pointed out to me, while many students develop a tangible interest in math

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send ... two of you set up a time to Skype. Mushiness also comes in cake form ... oscillators that it seemed only right to become one. For a driving force, we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  activities in Zoom rooms. It's a lot of fun, and getting to meet and talk to so ... amidst the chaotic experience that I'm told is supposed to somewhat model a ... ,[annotation note="in particular, I had missed mine to play in a pit orchestra

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  of my friends know, I love airports – I have half a mind to spend ... cosmopolitan cities in the world. My five-kilometre commute to work takes a mere ... -decker buses and inattentive taxi drivers, I'm treated to a tranquil route

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  post more lighthearted content, but this is a topic that means a lot to me to talk about and has affected me for a while. My mental health ... situation it is, no matter what you do to circumvent it. It's a combination

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game ... convey convincingly to others. The difference between a great idea and a ... , making a computer 3D model isn’t the best way to start an idea

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  697665727365: Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) went to the ... little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more. This is a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  a nice way to get outside, get some exercise, and get to places, but I ... rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of ... commuting bike. It set me back a few hundred dollars, but I like to think of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010