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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  am not, for the record, a star student at MIT), but I like that I am ... . "Kith, I disagree. If you get in, you can handle staying in, for the most ... rate (I don't remember actual numbers), and that's for a reason

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was ... México, which is only like a 5 minute walk from where my cousin lives. It ... summer for a couple days, if not before. Aside from the sightseeing, the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  room as a last resort to putting off psets, I buy groceries whenever I ... moment, I’m supposed to be preparing for a 6.01 exam on circuits tomorrow, but instead - you guessed it - I’m going to blog. This is also a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  see a tear. "I call her my miracle child," she says. From a young age ... through a book of Sudoku puzzles. For as long as Cristen can remember, she ... Square Park sitting just feet from where her mother spends most of her days

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  . By the time you read this, I'll have been home for over a week - but as ... ," I replied, "I think I have a pretty good preparation in physics from ... semester, to find out where my limits are." So I signed up for 8.012, and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  at a table at Burton Conner, I decided that that was the dorm for me ... their audition room, I lingered in front of another group’s table for a ... discovered I’d been rejected from the Syncopasians; a few days later, Carlos

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  I had a small (LEGAL!) drink. Thank you for all the birthday wishes ... there are"). For our purposes, this piece represents a shift from the ... , looking for a place to crank out 20 minutes' worth of a pset. I offered him

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  was pretty sad for me- I got to watch people doing a lot of stuff that I ... Quite a few Fridays ago I locked myself in my room so I could get as ... a crazy national competition a few weeks after that. I joined FIRST

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  for Mystery Hunt. Now let me tell you why. I woke up Friday morning getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a ... in time for half-price burgers. After that, I went over to visit with a

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  and the unfortunate effects it can produce. I'm going to make a ... I’ve gotten a little better at planning. I use a Notion now like all ... way it fits me best. This is one of the pages I've made for myself

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  supplies, ice cream, and a couple of snacks on the way. For dinner, I ate ... meals. I think there are moments where I'm still a little bit unhappy with ... For those of you who know me well, you'll know that I did not cook at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  animation program) when I had free time back in high school. For me it was a way for me to take the world that I know, and modify it in a way that ... school award for a piece I wrote. Then came time for college. Adults

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  ."]recitations[/annotation]on Monday/Wednesday. Psets for this class are the shortest I have with a mix ... the weekend was to cram. Except I didn't (oops!). I studied for a ... Python) The same day as the 8.01 exam, I had a "midterm" for 6.100A

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  also a (altered) clue. As often as I can, I'll be taking lyrics from some ... fam for a bit, so I flew home a week early. We went "up north" for Labor ... Admissions. For an introduction on me, you can check out my introduction blurb

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  course they do; but unlike in a class, where I can always go to office ... I had a plan for this blog post: I was going to build a ... another plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft in the first

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  of where you come from." I'm still doing that a little bit. I still ... to make time. The rest I'm hoping I can store away for future use and ... pimpin' to 'I can write a song about my baby being born.' & then guess

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  ), and being social (because I can’t live with being a shut-in) So that ... that I did in high school. For example, taking a Japanese language class ... don’t want to treat it like a technical class; I don’t have time for 4

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Blog] What It’s Like Studying Design at MIT Recounted by two seniors

  

  pretty fun and chill. I’ve heard the class syllabus can vary a bit from ... body, so we hope that this blog can be a thorough resource for ... for short), and students can certainly take it in more of a fine arts

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  if I’d gone to a different university. There’s just so much you can ... take your life, how a single professor can change what you want to do for ... -enrolling in a class, I did have the chance to take a class (D-Lab: Development

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  ) for just these reasons and here I thought I would give you a brief ... Custer's Lab where one can bake a cake by running a current through batter ... can come back for the next three years and TA. This is a unique

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012