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• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  're weird. And I can scan in writing assignments from fourth grade to prove ... over to the table where Brit '05, Lara '06, and I were chatting and ... , course 7, but they were excited to hear that I was doubling in course 9

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• 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

  

  I spent this morning sitting in 1369 Coffee on Mass Ave writing new ... , for one thing. For another, I didn’t actually put “MIT” in the subjects ... emails were instead titled things like, “Have a present - I am sleeping in

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  . they exist, definitely, but not in a way that i can say. nine. of course ... zero. once again you can determine how busy i am by the rate of my ... whatever time i have left, because it can just take an arbitrary amount of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  Facebook didn't suck - where was I - ah yes - in the old days, when I was in ... In the old days, when I was in college - when dinosaurs roamed the ... can play it, and you could set the buttons to play certain notes in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  presented themselves to both black minds and not: "I am not black, can I ... you. Here, I want to try my best to share a few moments in my life that ... moments where I realized that unlike some of my friends, I am still not

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  as long as i can remember, yet i never really had time for it in high ... in session and i have...an assortment of feelings. i guess my last post ... with pessimism either. i took physics c mechanics in high school and did

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  friends on which I can write on in my essays. I would be so grateful if you ... . ------------------------------------- Dheeraj wrote: "Can i take the SAT in jan 2006? Will its scores be ... . Apologies. ------------------------------------- Aziz wrote: "If i'm living in

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  and my purpose in what I'm doing and where I want to go and where I see ... screenings of movies and projects them in 26-100. I've gone to a couple of screenings and events in the past in an effort to see more movies (I watched

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  , I can get caught in my head; I like the freedom to pause and breathe ... In the middle of an already-packed IAP, I received an email: I’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  over the summer that I lived in Evan T. 19's room, where he installed chalkboards on one of his walls. (I talk about this more in the whiteboard post.) If we were in the same room, I would tell you that I could teach you

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  , but I was wondering. What's the policy on non-MIT-students being in ... times. Personally, I can't recall having heard of anyone being hassled ... my 10th in ICSE with 90.4%.but my 12th was not upto the mark.(i have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  occasion where we can't reach consensus, we put the application back in the ... Admissions (and taking off the tie that I wore today!). In a nutshell, here ... them. We do selection in subcommittees, usually of three people -- I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  the program starts so I can write out lecture notes in the fancy fashion ... . I can defiently call this first year at MIT a success. In regards to ... Finally the year is over. After a week of relaxing, I can finally

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  spontaneous, but in the instances where I'm actually working on projects, I try ... an environment where we can joke around with each other. I wanted to ... there is out there in the world. I read into my zodiac and stuff, not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  any other Harvard building I’ve never been in. I sat with a dear friend ... ), and I meet my beautiful friend for lunch, and on my way home in the ... , Darwin’s, where I am now, and work and have a cookie. Today I sat down to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  disorienting, and refreshing in an absurd way. Now, back to normal playback: I ... least I was in good company. The next morning, I felt oddly sympathetic ... A. I think this calls for additional punctuation marks!!! In

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  to make us hate each other. I hope that everyone in America can ... confused. Many are saying, where do we go from here? I forced myself to go ... , and there's nothing I can do..." An email was sent out this morning

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  . Everything was going to be AWESOME. I was going to double major in biological engineering and neuroscience and double minor in history and music and I was ... time off from MIT. I ended up attending classes at a local university in

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  back where I started - at the check-in counters. Turns out that my gate ... think that I have no idea where I'll be after next year. I should try to enjoy this stage of life while I can - when I really don't know what

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  that it would be a bad way to get where I'm going in transportation, but ... 's limited to 100 students in a lottery. So, we'll see if I can do it. I ... since you can declare yourself "undesignated." I've done a lot of thinking

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006