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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  6 shirts I can rotate for a max of like 8 outfits in any season ... shirt once where I ran a community service event for the club where we ... -dye ruins the point of having a design on the shirt. I can't read anything on

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  Context: I wrote a post in March called "I Moved to Maine" . You can ... in with my parents. About a month ago I decided to go back home for the ... : Everything happens for a reason, (insert name here) is a bad person, I will

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i am taking in spring 26 because i'm stuck at the airport right now. NOT ranked in terms of edibility (sorry)

  

  From 2022-2023, I travelled [annotation note="a quick count suggests ... > what can i say i buy the sauce.']n >= 2[/annotation] evidence that the ... the predominant major at MIT...), but I think it's a great example for

  • by Janet G. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  For Applicants Admitsphere.org, four hens, two ducks, best wishes and high regard from Mac-town, Oregon

  

  grows numb and your eyes go hazy from the computer screen, go for a walk ... college application. You're smarter than a duck, and you can write better ... I know it's late in the college application season--the deadline is

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 27, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  I'm taking a break from my weekend of watching Lost episodes downloaded from iTunes and buying furniture for the new apartment to do a public service announcement on where to buy stuff for your future

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  , congratulations! You have a lot to be proud about. From experience, I can say that ... . There is a Target close to campus, where you can buy extension cords and ... [/annotation] so I was phone-less for a week or so and had to buy a new phone. 6

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  Tumblr is where I put a lot of this reflection. In particular, I seem to ... saw a lot of “Things I learned from college” posts from other college ... point that for a time I wondered if my diagnosis had been false. After a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  intuition for a new topic. I love taking physics classes enough that I can see ... 'll spoil the punchline for you: I'm officially a course 8 major now. And yet ... paths I see for myself. Course 8 also offers a flexible major, called 8

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  . The theme is "How Can I Keep from Singing," which is extremely apt for ... export the file I need straight into Notability; from there on out, I can ... fruitful for providing a historical perspective on how much work I can

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  a Friday night undeserving of weekend status, I'd traveled from the ... offer. Around 11 pm, I left the house for a walk to the beach ... . I relaxed and thought about cod for a while, especially cod wearing

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  . Build a thing You are creative. You can do things. I know it. Does your ... decisions. Here is a list of things I came up with. (PS sorry it's all ... a book (Step 1a would be to buy a book if you do not own one). These

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  where I try to communicate my vision and they make it into a reality. For example, for the scene transition, I wanted a sound clip that starts chaotic ... optimization problem. When one of my actors had a conflict for tech week, I had

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  tickets any MIT student can buy through MITAC. And thus, on a Saturday I ... did not travel to Agawam for this reason. Instead, I went to an old man ... cannot stomach steep drops so I had close my eyes for most of them, but the

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  I was just downstairs in the records office, where the mail continues ... Malkovich (a great but disturbing film, if you haven't seen it), where John ... already work for Admissions, so I wasn't subjected to such an interview. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  ; What a headache Where does the time go?! We're somehow halfway through ... next. Through out all this switching around, I also started a new UROP ... taught the 6.810 class I took last semester. For the past few weeks, I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  being, which means this is a pretty lonely time for you. I want you to ... pacing around the house for a solid hour before the event, I have the ... a million different corners of the world. Personally, I think we

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  caught another cab to amazon, where I met up with a friend from school to ... from a while back) Oy! Welcome to the much-belated “what I’m doing this ... . Yes, I actually saw this. No, I didn't take the image from a recent

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  to writing them once a week...I'll just write stuff. About my life and ... by just rock/paper/scissors? Are there any dorms where you can live ... together :p) they'll choose one for you should you get something other than a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  first week, I confided in Arystanbek, a teacher who taught math from grade ... American from Florida who had spent a lot of time working in Russia and ... most proud of my initiative in AP Calculus, where I created a game of

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  gave me store credit to buy a new laptop. I'm now typing from my brand ... plans from your store to see if they're right for you. I say get a ... I've been breaking computers from a young age. In middle school I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015