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• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  take, or something like that.) $50 says many of you are wondering the ... about whether or not that part about what you do in your free time was a ... , this is a tough one. 1) Be pretty much the coolest person ever. If that

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  after midnight. I was almost done with Part 1, the basic block...and still ... . When you think that emotionally, or mentally, or even physically, you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  Guth." Is it ever appropriate to address A Famous Person by first name

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  , Harvard's Libraries, and why you should go to either MIT or Harvard. Here ... Library has that from 1943, as willing as I am to Greyhound it over to New ... libraries. Most people will be a-ok sticking on campus for their research, but

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  - '14 hopeful: My name is Ryan, I live in Prescott, Arizona, and I will ... pictures taken on my trip to China and Taiwan. Captions: 1. Delicious xiao ... like a big pink ball of fluff =p but please enjoy having H1N1 in the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  specific book or will start from the ground up. The subject matter interested ... debating whether or not I should, and it wasn’t an easy decision for a few ... least two of them share the same birth week. Or, if you have 367 friends

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  [/annotation] classes will make me happier than any advanced algorithms or math ... the class. Or, more accurately, we moved on from special relativity to ... I will pursue and stick with it. The title of the blog spoils it, but

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  Talent Development Institute, or TDI. TDI was supposed to be a camp for ... 't know what my talents or gifts might be, but I went anyway because hey ... last week or so. TDI was, as it has always been, an incredibly rewarding

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  how I inline skate, or rollerblade. Even after three years of being in ... adrenaline rush. Being able to make meetings or classes across campus in ... passed or how they stopped so quickly going so fast. I made lifelong

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  this photo is just a DNK^2 one ... ow well)  1) this is a very cute ... will we regret posting this picture on the blogs? definitely 

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  take a nap. 1.5 hours later, I wake up and start frantically packing. I ... will get no points for it. Uh oh. My mind goes into panic mode, but I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  , we listened to the Sonata in F Major ("Prussian" 1) by Bach's son Carl ... 1 and the infinite corridor. I bought a box of salmon/avocado sushi ... 'll call a lab frame, or Frame S. And we can measure the time it takes for an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  friend or an acquaintance from Toronto. I still do this sometimes, but I ... underneath me, so that every time I put a foot down, that piece of tile or carpet or concrete feels like a part of me. It's the same connection and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  you were to talk to my friends or family, they would say that I am ... Transportation Planning”. Not to be dramatic or anything, but this class changed ... time off might be before college, during college, or before grad school

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  : 21M.235, or "Monteverdi to Mozart". 21M.235 is offered in the fall, and ... opera, or was that just me?) We spent the first ten minutes of class or ... teaching per week, just for fun. Paradise Lost I will always remember John

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  the tarmac, or…or it's too crowded. I'm sure the pilot will explain to ... or from motion sickness, or both, I don't know. I was certainly

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  email filters you make, somehow, emails will flood in like a tsunami. It ... spontaneous school-wide email threads, underwear colors attached in emails, or a ... you will see in some future blogs, not being able to get a full feel of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  the idea of a conversation with a stranger or a big party event doesn ... the point where it numbs my mouth. Or that the strange hierarchy that ... eye contact or nervously crack my knuckles when I talk to someone who

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  them in more detail than I will if you’re interested in learning more ... whether I want to double major in math or be a 6-2 instead of a 6-3, and 18 ... go to lecture, and having a good lecturer is basically what makes or

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  tour of their beloved dorm. I may or may not have had the privilege of ... weekend. Maybe that was from my extreme excitement or because of my childhood desire to get into MIT. Or, maybe it was because my experiences at

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008