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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  would be better for other people to just write a blog for me (although ... with the team That new gorillaz album Taking a 2 hour nap Going to ... Getting a bad grade, but still realizing how much I’ve learned to get to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  people that, they look at me shocked, jaw to the floor like a scream mask ... door-to-door didn’t make much sense when “the next door” was half a mile ... a full-size chocolate bar. The good stuff. Then we’d drive to the

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  to be a man of few words, and my guest-entry was going to revolve ... consider me to be a pretty serious, goes to bed at 10, enjoys jazz music type ... straight-laced personality was exposed to a weekend of epic proportions. One

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  , I decided to write this one based on the song "MTA", where a man named ... note="MIT students are required to take a variety of Humanities, Arts ... tenors, it ended up being a really pretty piece to sing. https

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  lazy to finish up this week. Spending a whole year at MIT really changed ... summer, and I think the opportunity to come back as a TA for Calculus, as ... more excited to be a coauthor of a scientific paper, as I told myself I

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

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  ), many students will be in a frenzy trying to find summer internships, and ... , especially in a world where leadership, interpersonal, and management skills ... interdisciplinary problem-solving, MIT is uniquely equipped, and obliged, to make a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  competition at MIT where people team up to solve lots of puzzles (which lead to more puzzles), with the ultimate goal of finding a coin hidden somewhere ... until the coin is found, usually sometime Sunday. To give you a flavor of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  A Trip to AfroTech My Recap of the AfroTech Conference in Houston

  

  About a month ago, I left campus to take a little trip to Houston for ... the first time as we were driving was actually a shock to me. Once we got to the hotel we actually had to wait a bit into the afternoon to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where In The World Is The Nance Effect? He returns! He returns! He returns!

  

  . My oldest daughter is a high school junior this year, so I'll get to ... the admissions world for the opportunity to become a student again ... blogs I plan to discuss: EC interviews, rants from the road, and life as a

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  , not just MIT) have a responsibilty to find a way to take the pressure ... scenes to change things around a bunch - some portlets will be retired ... . A girl basically paid a consultant to help her reinvent her entire

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  had a lot of time to get there. i head up to the third floor of building ... checking my messages. (for geographic reference, refer to how to find your ... .036 introduction to machine learning. after being a lab assistant, or la, for four

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  .010 teaching staff had put together a list of review papers to help us find our ... sparse data, I expected to be grasping at straws trying to find such a ... writers and orators. A large part of that comes from exposing us to new

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  was a magnanimous act? Intuitively, I find self-deception appalling. To ... him. This friend is single and would like to have a girlfriend, and ... make to the civilians of Paris if a high school student from Portland

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  exploration"]FLEX,[/annotation] we went through a lot to find the 58 wonderful ... final act of the CPW closing show, we had a lot to get through to make ... 's, a popular rooftop bar in Harvard Square, to catch up with some friends

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  personally find it to be enjoyable and rewarding. You could ask a different ... this was a really good decision, and continue to highly recommend it. I like to talk about my major a lot, but one thing that I guess I haven

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  find a way to separate whatever passions I can find and whatever ... great for me to care. Nonetheless, I did apply to some schools as a ... 't going to go pre-med or do a PhD, bioengineering felt more useful as a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  need to find a way to understand. Freshman Taylor did not get this at ... mostly like to talk about MIT as a physical entity. “Look at this cool ... . ------------------ I want to talk about integrals. I’m pretty sure a lot of you nerds who

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  to give me a helicopter ride if I ever find myself in San Diego. We did ... public outreach a gajillion notches - $11,906 worth of notches, to be ... 's difficult to say "hey! you should start a FIRST Robotics team!" when you also

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  group where we relate everything to a skill tree, where we were born with ... I've been thinking a lot about what it means to be a student here at ... the average scores. That class convinced me I wasn't meant to be a CS

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  !"]Simmons[/annotation], and then we walked over to [annotation note="another dorm, where a bunch of my friends live!"]Next[/annotation] to hang out for a while. Around ... character for just a bit. After about an hour, I trudged back into my dorm to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024