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• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  In sixth grade, even if you had a crush on someone, you would never ... fun of by everyone in the grade. You'd exposed your own vulnerability ... that rejection can bother me: if I ask a question in a group chat and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  other languages. Talking fluently in a language you don't speak natively ... fluent Spanish and is looking to practice English. You can then meet up on ... website where you can make a profile, search for people with complimentary

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  time to do something you can tell an employer about).  I’ve had this ... doing as many things as you can if you have the option of doing them. If ... : I know you read these sometimes. Hi :D). It was one of the best

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  . Below is a reel of some skills I've learned (you can even hear Petey SM'13 ... briquettes (a dense fuel dominant in developing countries). They can be used ... lives in both science and art. I hope you find your own flame, too.

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  full meal in my life, if you don't count boiling a hot dog, pouring ... ) is something that I don't think you can find in many commercial ... mean, you can wrap anything you want in rice paper as long as it fits

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  If you're the only person in a room and you have psychological and ... else before hosting people. You can cultivate whatever vibe you want ... effect on what kind of socializing can occur in them. In BC, the floor

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  As some of you may know, I am majoring in math and economics ... turned out to be pretty algorithmic. Apply the concept you learned in class ... theorems and have to tinker until you can assemble them into solutions to the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  Maybe my favorite part of course 2A is sitting next to my friend in 2 ... note-taking. Midweek finds us gathering in a lounge and trudging through the psets, untangling each other’s equations when they get in snarls

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  addition to more flexibility in terms of subject areas I can pursue later on ... interested in my physics classes, this can be enough. I'll then be free to take ... was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in Burton-Conner! What you won't see in the i3 video!

  

  I found an old clip on YouTube that I uploaded a long time ago that I ... do you do with these three items? You make this video. And then you tell everybody who watches this video that, if they live in Burton

  • by Snively '11
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  readings and assignments. In this course you will do a great deal of reading, writing, and class discussion, perhaps more than you have done in most of ... conventionally 'technical' work done in the class which force you to grapple with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  reactor startup targeting goals 7 years in the future, what can you deliver ... subsystem that you can deliver in 3 months?  Small wins build on each other ... goal of colonizing Mars.  You can't get to Mars without making a lot of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  to start a long day of pen training. You can see Chris there in the ... scheduled for July 24th at 10 in the morning. You're all applying to MIT, you can do math, and you probably realize that that was on Friday. It's now

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Invasion MIT! the long war of general jack

  

  from the sacrifices of my soldiers to brighten your day. May you win your battles just as we prepare to defeat our finals once again in this infinite

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  to get you in MIT or keep you out. So think about something else :P ... . AND ONE THING I REALLY HATE IS USING SPACE ON MY COMPUTER - via you know ... in the derrière these days. (Also, the programs just suck - yet they

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  As you might have read in my last entry, I had a 6.046 (Design and ... back, Anirudh '16 and Samvaran '12 busted out some dance moves in the ... Cormick, the dorm I live in. There, Anuhya '14 used her mad design skills to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  the previous three years I was in MITSO), you better believe I booked it ... qualities as Prof. Diaz. I was so lucky to have an educator like her. You can never be thankful enough for a good teacher, and in some ways you won

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  , you can see the article here. Basically, what I gathered from the ... , plus you're making a lot more money, while they're stuck in lab." Even ... The February 13 edition of Time Magazine had an interesting article

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  generally feel out of my depth in that class, and every pset is a struggle of ... often have trouble wrapping my head around, and it can be very frustrating ... , somewhere, and they know what's going on. They can wrap their brain around

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  altitude over some undetermined state in the Midwest. I’m now writing, I can ... , chocolate chip banana pancakes and pizza you-guessed-it from scratch was in ... ,998 feet*. I hate you, technology. But sometimes you are a cool cat. I spent

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012