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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  really ever came to anything. Among all the thoughts, only one feels all that important to share with applying students: taking the L. Y'all, I ... from what was coming. I opened my computer an hour before the exam to the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  idea to check such an important thing in public, but hey, it worked out ... to forget these parts of myself, the thoughts I felt were so important ... As we say goodbye to the decade, it’s hard not to get sentimental

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  something as important as what living groups are accessible to students. This ... the monthly rent was high (relative to the other options). Sublet an ... in MIT's graduate dormitories) in Boston/Cambridge, but want to live

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  , going to the Weekend was correlated with enrolling. One of the important ... becomes more import to REX than REX itself, then I think this does become a ... me. I tried to resist the temptation to actually look into this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  , attending office hours, and getting outside help, i somehow managed to scrape ... stud that i could go to at any time, even odd hours of the night, and ... important subject to me. as a kid, i used to be incredibly irresponsible

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  to Zuko the importance of learning from other nations and shows him how ... challenge. That Sunday, I went shopping for hours at 5 different places to get ... due to her tragic loss. This episode is also important for Zuko

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  -year undergraduates are required to take two general studies subjects: "forty-five hours ... , then the "hours of instruction", a precursor to the current unit system ... to correspond to 48 hours a week, and in practice corresponds to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  . Too many other factors come into play. And that’s important to recognize ... ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated ... foolish to recognize his potential. Washington rebounded from this

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  Sublime Text, trying to hammer out code. Hours staring at my text editor ... always hours when it is impossible for me to work. And these are the hours ... Some days, I feel good. Some days, I feel like I can work for hours

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  statement I’d made. Which leads us to… The Longest 4 hours of my life. The ... to chill for a few hours until the call-backs. To distract myself, I ... .5 hours they came back to make the announcement, lining up in a very

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  of you to grasp, you are important and special, and other people see ... what they want. This is also important to recognize because I want you ... sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  of the case that was important for me to remember. Also, Jordan (from ... horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last ... lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  to the cemetery where Jim Morrison is buried because we had an hour to ... getting paid $10 an hour to go to lecture. I taught SAT Prep for ESP, which ... ironic now. This is why I'm going to be cremated when I die and have my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... and brain and cognitive sciences, which means that I'm going to have my ... 'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  's 0400 Saturday morning, and my roommate and I sit listening to whatever ... 've spent hours at a time like this, discussing topics ranging from Computer Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  trip over the power cord. I’m a klutz. It’s important to me that my ... not already important to you, it will become important to you. F ... The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  things that are important to me and representative of my experiences. This ... So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  days to find my total number of revisions by hour. I was surprised at how ... Levels by Class During school hours, my editing activity related to how I ... Senior Video.)[/caption] Five months ago, I bid farewell to my high school

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center ... century, [annotation note='According to MIT Libraries, the MIT Admissions ... Corridor. A copy of the MIT Bulletin from 1930 makes reference to the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run ... kind of situation (aka any kind of situation) is to make lots of plans

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018