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• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  Hello Internet! I had a very writing major day, which is to say that ... preservation.)   The protagonist of ThesisNovel is a high school senior ... a huge huge issue for me later on, which is another story altogether

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  portrayed. "MIT student?" But Anthony is so much more than that. So how do I ... obligations always tended to cross paths. And yes, now MIT is in a different ... direct relevance to what I feel is my singular path, yet it was taking a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  threw a dinner party for a bunch of people Friday, including Sam's Mom ... most healthful food in the world, is actually bad for you, because it gives you gallstones. Luckily, I don't like spinach very much. That's why

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  ’m normally heading out. Sleeping is a big part of that—how can I feel normal if ... , telling him how I felt a mixture of calm and anxiety, and I couldn’t quite ... please go anywhere, anywhere that’s not here, in a way that felt very much

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

      My friend Robert V. '20 is a Course 6-3 (Computer ... his post as much as I did!    As far as I can tell, making a calculator is a classic first time programmer’s challenge. So, as I was helping

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  envision a world in which blackness is not feared and lives are valued. How ... suspect there is something much more important and much more real which ... the person. A country is only as good--I don't care now about the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  general idea is that I'm working on a program that can navigate several ... for multiple robots to get to a destination. The goal this summer is to ... someone I know makes the weights a little more bearable. Artsy things How

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  Sometimes, I forget how much I love MIT, and then I realize that the ... with this is that I am literally in a pair of free Crocs I got at Notre ... yes, this is a conversation between two sorority sisters… only at MIT.

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  straight hours of short lessons ranging from "How to ask for a date" to "At ... sometimes get a bad rap with regards to social interactions.  We're stereotyped as awkward nerds with grody neckbeards who shower once a month

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  Abstract Ring Delivery is a time-honored tradition in which Massachusetts ... elucidate why such great effort is put into emphasizing the presence of a new ... finally put a ring on it,” or “Engaged to the institute!” While this quip is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  Here is a picture of Allan's room, snipped from here: He left this ... soon: much of it is technical, like strang, or sections of clrs - some ... ... i would i could show you how much my first year at mit has changed me

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  you feel stressed out, just take a step back and think about how hard ... high school except that that homework is a little harder. Three days a week I have lecture and two days a week I have recitation, which is about

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  giving his students free tickets to a show he's playing. How rad is that ... 'm still in a state of shock (so try to forgive me if this post is all over ... , which, as I have come to learn, is a valuable commodity. Once classes

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  MIT. What’s it like? Is it hard? How much sleep do I get? These tend to ... because this is what happens when my mom tries to take a picture of me. Mom ... and we decided it’d be worth a daytrip. One thing I noticed is that my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  experience I’m still stacking up on, which is a chance for me to babble about ... class gets you to really absorb is how differently real-life situations ... dictate how far or close from a wall it should always be (its sensors use

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  ’s actually surprising how much MIT supports this kind of artistic expression ... matched in a way that made them very easy to stack. All you need is a ... side is her wardrobe and the other side has a shelf for her make up and

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  -ent form of democracy, is a persistent tendency to growth and centralization ... , educa-tional, and labor. There is a concerted effort to increase the ... this nation is to hold to a high goal, it must continue to cultivate a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  assets MIT has is the people. Coming to MIT I was a pretty shy and reticent ... this is the place for you. I think in some respects you have to be a car ... that life is a timeless twister that never stops. The late professor

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  the noise of the ground below. There is normally not much going on up ... locations when I am by myself working. It is on campus! Just a walk, well, a ... . Sometimes I go just to have a quick break from riding my bike when the wind is

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  ; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 about how much much she loves Spotify; and Abby's post about the blogger's collective Spotify wrapped. It's crazy to me how much Spotify has just

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019