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• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

  .   Distance is much more than being far away, It is to know how a ... eternal summer you left.   Distance is to learn how to live on your ... with tears in her eyes she’ll say: I’m home.   MIT is a truly

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  is that I can feel how much I’ve grown since then. You wouldn’t believe ... ’s coming. In its own way, MIT is a conundrum. You can’t always tell how ... awesome Nigerian food—how I missed that!—and looking forward to a wedding

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How does one attain a Pirate License?

  fencing are granted pirate status with a tangible certificate. Blogger Abby H. '20 is one of the students who has earned official MIT Pirate ... they’re a challenge to complete.’’ So you best be careful whilst
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  : About me: I am a senior who is majoring in 21E: Humanities and Engineering ... a 21-Humanities field (History also requires a thesis, which for me is ... (to this day!). So, to (hopefully) make it up to Anjali, here's a much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  there is a LOT going on in the world right now -- perhaps most ... ;3 baby seal: much like this baby seal, i am a potato whose corporeal form is simply a shapeless jelly. perhaps this describes you as well

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Math Women Rock k + 8 = awesome

  

  girls are awesome and MPG is awesome and we like to have as much awesome ... Happy International Women's Day! I've talked before about how MIT Women Rock, but let's broaden the pool of rockstars a bit. The Math Prize

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 8, 2011
• FAQ / First-year application

  How can I explain my special circumstances?

  application is read in a holistic manner, within its proper context. ... We understand that everyone has a unique story and that we can’t possibly cover every “what if” in an FAQ section. The MIT application allows
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  definition. For purposes of MIT Admissions, an international student is a ... . Need blind means that we do not consider how much financial aid we would need to give a student during the admissions process. What we do is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  various dimensions of MIT's diversity. MIT is a melting pot of ideas, people ... vignettes of this to communicate how diverse this campus truly is. I'll spare you the details of how challenging it was to produce a documentary on a

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  . What you’re looking at is a screenshot from Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo & ... it is that time of year where the obligatory paper has come a ... Australia) and is a modern-day translation of the Shakespearean classic

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  the exam is almost certainly graded on a curve, so if you have as much ... take notes on a laptop or by hand in class? and how much homework on ... on less than $20 a week. That is a true story. When I got back to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  , or I just want to sit in all day and cry because of how much there is ... , they also knew just how stressful the MIT culture is. It's not that the ... " align="aligncenter" width="300"] this tweet is truly a blessing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  . There is one employee who also only graduated about a year ago. Not only ... personal lives. It’s hard to express in words, but there is also a certain ... information, simply because he wished to fully answer a question I had. This is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  actually happy is so much greater, because I’m happy for a reason. Because my ... . Because reading is great but I haven’t been writing, not as much as I’d like ... week we’ll be happy, and then we can write a blog about how scheduled and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  time though, it’s kind of crazy how a student who was pretty much at the ... Oooooooohhhh boy. A new semester has begun! I know this post is kinda ... with wires and Arduino for a few hours, which I think is super fun and

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  college is supposed to be a stepping-stone to adulthood, where ... lol"]all that much.[/annotation] Boston is right there, but i barely leave my floor?? (okay, my floor is amazing but i, a girl from a city 45

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  . Still, though, I’m glad I did it. I learned the limits of how much my ... he’s a verifiable icon in the MIT community. I wish I had checked how ... made me realize how much of the physical world (pretty much all of it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  stressed out- but all I can think about is how the finish line is really in ... . Random Aesthetic Shoe: A lot of this is aesthetics. The shoe is pure aesthetic. I don't even like sneakers like that. Rooh Afza: Rooh Afza is a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  too much effort. The solution, inevitably, is eggs. I'm a [annotation ... and would instead on myself and learning how to be a functional human being. A big part of this was learning how to cook and bake. I tried a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  , In May, I got an email titled ‘A letter from the past.’ There is an ... . dear past me, During REX, I finally realized how much I changed in the ... nothing is ever too important. so, care. but care only as much as you could

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022