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• Blog / Challenges

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  wondering in the back of my head how much of the population as a whole is ... in late January. I'm living in Next House after a busy on-campus[annotation note="Independent Activities Period, a part of the school year in January

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  the hacker to a painter, as people who are both invested in creation. In ... I liked doing than disliked doing. In one sense, that's a good thing ... were good, in contrast to some people I know who had bad first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  'd never built a robot. I had never hung out with Ben Jones in real life or ... 'd never met someone who'd written a novel before puberty or created an award ... . This time, my iPod is charged and my boarding pass is secured in my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  was actually in response to an admitted student who was deciding whether ... : Mikey received an email from a student who had been admitted to MIT and ... . And I've never done any of that... I'm basically a kid who likes math

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  transportation is excellent in Boston, but if you know someone in the area with a ... what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and ... . This is a pretty good list that I actually used when I was college

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Events

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  Obama's address. Needless to say, the MechE student who doesn't have a ... speak, it was a no go. That is, until I realized I worked for the ... with cones I spent some time in lab, built some yoyos (my team is

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  intrigues me the most is called Pick Your Poison. In it, the Mafia is given a ... Here's a post I made in my personal blog, around a year ago, talking ... fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I ... . Moving into a college dorm is a new experience with new responsibilities ... 'll be happy to hear from you. 2) The first people you meet in a new place

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  in English. I sat across from G., who is almost my age and so not in ... that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of ... start a jar of lacto-fermented sauerkraut. In Italy, in an overcast

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  So about a week and a half ago I handed in my last final in Johnson ... . Professors and PSets Thing? Yea that never ended. But all it takes is a few ... This section is pretty much a catchall for all the miscellaneous things I

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  One. Time is not real, because the other day I woke up at ten in the ... is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour ... a song for four minutes and it'd feel like twelve. Time is not real

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  Some Notes, because I’m myself:  Title is loosely based off of the ... reading your blog. Write her or him a letter.” I wrote elsewhere in the ... , I guess. God, why is this so difficult? I’m just talking in circles

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  built into it — research is truly a collaborative endeavor in how ideas ... considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... a lab in CSAIL. I could say a million great things about my mentors

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I sit in my dining room and stare at ... the endless noise of constant motion that comes with living in a house ... a small space in a corner of my mind where it slowly eats away at my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  figure out what works for you. There is no shame in dropping a class*. There is no shame in not majoring in engineering**. It is okay to fail a ... about my performance in Pass/No Record classes (this email is known as a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  's tires rotated, and somewhere in the back of my mind there is a small voice ... cyber-storage. and this also feels right, in a way, like there is a ... i graduated! *confetti noises* i took a semester off back in 2015

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  depression.[/annotation] [annotation note="cj: citing a paper in a blog post is ... bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur,” good food is the ... opinion is biased against American cuisine as a whole, considering that my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  someone who's not even the valedictorian or has never been in a science fair ... chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early ... but about the person. Sure MIT's is a shortcut that opens doors, but if

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  . Diana, my athletic supervisor and a dear friend who is an avid reader ... tendencies (although admittedly, this is a work in progress); work with high ... ="Transfers who entered MIT in the 2022–2023 school year"]last year’s transfer

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  might be thinking: biking in a city? Why is this deeply psychotic and ... rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of ... in the greater Boston area by far - and picked up a nice, simple

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010