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• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  consensus was, in the best-case, five years. The "upper limit" for how long it ... on for the people who'll take my place? I don't know. I tried my best ... to Alan and Vincent for reading drafts. This post is dedicated to MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  fitting in, about studying for classes, and about joining clubs. For those ... [/annotation] ready to give you their tips and tricks for surviving classes and getting ... , there have been many, many blog posts filled with advice for first

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  group chats for most of my classes. These group chats are somewhat helpful for: Resolving confusion about class policies. Getting hints about ... inspired by "Stellar," which is MIT's platform for learning management. On

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  this and asexuality a few months ago. I've known for a while now that I ... asexual people describe. For example, not really wanting to have sex, aside ... interesting detail. For fourteen years, the author didn't realize they had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  this one. :)] The other day I was hanging out with one of my best ... wanted to be when he grew up. I reached for the right words to validate the ... -year-old Elizabeth were both gunning for the same job, he said he

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  and advocate for students. We might be crusty, but I’d say we are warm ... process for me. In addition, as a slightly extroverted person, reading applications all day, everyday in physical isolation for weeks on end can be

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  that we had only two goals for the rest of the semester—to have fun in ... -wielding tourists. You bump into one of their shoulders; they regard you for a moment ... phrase best voiced by a euphemism, someone walks past you saying, “That

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  random blog entries. You know, just for fun. 2. Tell us what you want to ... So I was looking through some old notes that I was working on for ... . Read the blogs, that's what they're for. We try to make them interesting

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  above) for the first time—super fun and tiring! There are a number of ... )—on Tuesday night, I went to see Vince Staples for the second time, which was ... ’s like to start studying for a Friday 8AM exam (for a class you’ve attended

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  was going, how I was playing in the band for the school play, and how I ... . I love MIT, but but there was no good reason for me to want to be anywhere ... I got in and when I left for MIT. I wish I had. If I were you—which is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  This section is pretty much a catchall for all the miscellaneous things I ... fun photos. [carousel image1="107384" image2="107385" image3 ... fun locked in with... As I noted in my first photoblog, PSets are not

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  up the points of the things I even wrote anything down for, they just ... strong negative memories of. But it's a requirement for the new 6–14 major ... of each section I was reading for later review and cheat sheet copying

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  opposite me, resting on his elbow and playing Words With Friends. He ... blog for MIT admissions while actually at MIT...) I write much more ... New Mexico at a six-week astrophysics program for High School students

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  how it felt for these to be hammered home. 5. If you don't succeed, the ... for me? Short answer: No. Long answer: No. Saying "I'm not smart ... be ascribed to not studying for long enough, but at some point “I just

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  backwards for that shot. I don't play it that way. Also, the mini-drumset was ... you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that rhyming's necessary, but it was always a crutch for me. I digress. Let

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  ," the Faculty Houses. The dorm's name of '93 would last for ... the '93 dormitories began to play the fire hoses up and down the ... see the full-size photo.) That photo is incredible for a lot of

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  Happy 2016! (By the way: 2016 = 2^5*3^2*7, in case you need the factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe.) After finals, my brother and I flew home and stayed there for about two

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  . Math Competition X that I never made the cut off for. Oh and Math ... trouble and for the past three and a half years, I missed opportunities to ... . Forgot what I was doing for this code assignment and totally lost? STUPID

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  when I left for college, which had been laying on a shelf since August ... weighed my options, called my mom, and dropped the class. For the past two ... general). One of my best friends, Irina, jotted some of it down and turned

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  blue sky for walls, and in this space the three floors above us are ... naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very ... for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014