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• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  something like a teacher when you talk to them. And this is how... I know each of you is looking to find colleges where you feel you can spend the ... . They are also teachers of a type when they talk to each of you during

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unfold I met my blog muse while doing the laundry, and then came this entry.

  

  in 3 flat to find something to wear for school. Exhibit A: This ... over the other proves to be a mind-clearing activity. So while stuffing ... 've acquired a number of t-shirts in some shape related to MIT. I then realized

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  you’ve never used a power tool - well, now’s the time to learn! Our ... Desk might also turn up to sing a few songs. Pinkies, on 8/28 from 10PM ... to be a prefrosh. I thought that fire spinning was *too hardcore* for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  had to walk several minutes to find a green place for him to disembark ... the mechanical routine of a [annotation note="closer to a 9:45ish-to-5 ... -a-glitch-in-the-simulation-but-unnerving-enough-that-I-had-to-take-a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  , and I was surprised to find that many friends wanted to visit me. A ... get to the parking garage, and my rental car agent greets me with a ... super desert-y. You do need a car to get around, but some areas are

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  experiences. When I applied to be a blogger, I partially wrote about how I enjoy ... ; 17.307 Excited for a class is a... strong term... but I choose to have ... declared Course 20! I have[annotation note="i'm going to start keeping a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  if I can really pinpoint where it first started but I definitely have a ... to the point where I simply snapped and said "If you're so fat, then ... and a feeling of cowardice and defeat. When I finally came to college

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was inadvertently reminded, thanks to news reports, that he was once a child prodigy ... , making him the latest among my exes to pursue a STEM doctorate degree. My

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  knowing me, I'll find other things to do. New York is a big city, right? I ... back to my room after a long day of being outside with friends. It's not ... the most convenient timings. Never before a call I have to be on or a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  the communities I’m now a part of are beloved to me, but I definitely ... load in about a year, and communicate when I need to take time off from ... me, sounding like a college confidential parent) 5. Not going to class

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  made some art about the iberian peninsula featuring a long winded unedited rundown of the month of january +/- a week

  

  Christmas Day, but we managed to find one Chinese-owned store open to get ... down a week later to spend a long long weekend extending my hospitality to the MIT Mystery Hunt team I run and orchestrating a series of

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 22, 2026
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  siblings), and I find that I can't really relate to that at all, and perhaps ... projects. Now that I'm going to graduate MIT in a year I feel like I should ... (too late for me to major in 11 now, but wish me luck on getting a minor

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  's a good question! The answer is that, for 6.004, you have to write your ... individual, not as part of a group. However, you are allowed to collaborate ... assignments that you have to do yourself with a huge group project at the end

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  2020, I continued a tradition started in 2019 where ESP members went to ... : we have a weekly meeting on Sundays to help plan our competitions! With our regional happening in a couple of weeks, there’s a lot of work to

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  transcript. hence, don't try to get a 100"]A, B, or C[/annotation]) or No ... would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to ... exams Use this as a time to experiment with different study techniques

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  and two other ARTalk bloggers in 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I would like to ... the exhibit is a separate room where some photos of Haacke’s work ... …but it was still funny to see all of the other people in the room squirm a

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  what to expect when you’re expecting a bad grade, that is

  

  present to you a list of things to do if and/or when you find yourself in a similar situation. Feel free to treat it as a chronological bucket list or just a list to pick and choose from. 1.  Eat a Lot of Food This is the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 29, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  shows that MIT is a series of nearly back-to-back all-nighters, except ... . It was a beautiful week. Now, I’m back to the usual battle with ... me to hasten and complete their worlds. Except that each snippet of a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually ...  Burchard Scholars dinners and we got to talking about INSPIRE, a cool project that ... interested in INSPIRE, how should they proceed? A: To start, all you really

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  to upperclassmen as a warning not to mack on the frosh, Newton's Third ... course of a few weeks, you have to learn how to deal with classes (which ... ' experiences with freshman fall lie on the scale of "it was a little rough to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018