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• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  Oregon for work.  I found a real estate agent, found a lot, and built a ... this!" she said. She was wrong, of course.  I could definitely not ... wanting one. I took a job 1.5 hours north of where I lived not long before

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  because of the somewhat disappointing fact that I'm not actually able to ... 'll have to set aside just because it's not really possible to juggle ... to say I'm not as tight-knit with my neighbors as I should be, because

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  ought to be. Maybe not such a bad strategy (it means I take what I'm most ... that's not a lit class." Concentration Advisor: "They don't all have to ... Course 9. This put me behind -- not alarmingly, but behind. The way this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  problem sets, but as long as it's not full, you can change it online. In ... -voiced office secretaries, just change into whatever time works for you or which ... 've been trying to decide whether or not to switch into 5.112. I'm in it for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  trip to Rome or Sweden, and I'm not going anywhere like Chocolate World ... , Ohio, which as you may or may not know is the violet capital of Ohio ... (surprisingly delicious). I'm not sure what we're going to eat tomorrow, but rest

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  . But the quality of the work derived from the labs was not worth the ... week off of work, I understand the pressed schedule. From a purely ... themselves were pretty straightforward, not requiring students to write the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  paper inspired my proposed methods."]born.[/annotation] I’m not sure what ... I love. One night during the trip I was working on my physics ... crystal. Back then, potentially exchanging salivary fluids was not a concern

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  this is what worked best for me. It's typically better of a supplemental ... you may not yet know what you want to major in, which department or ... bring people together to better the lives of others. MIT students work to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  that this wasn't sustainable, and next year I'd rather not write "Things ... had to read five such essays and this was my favorite. Despite not ... man. Feeling like a man.—They are well together. Women are not. Look at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  thesis. I’m not sure exactly when that happened, but I know why. For a ... wanted to tell it. It’s not that I fell out of love with the characters, or ... started to piece my belief in myself back together. I worked through writing

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  are wonderful, but Mohammed (not sure if that's how his named is spelled ... note="Disclaimer: i'm not sponsored, I just think that TGTG is a great ... day we’re working on making that a reality. Our app is the most direct

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  critically about the games I'm playing. I learned to view games not in a vacuum, but as greater sociotechnical works and pieces and better understood how ... me realize that the idea of pursuing an PhD or Master's in media is not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  classes is actually, uh, not a break, even if you don't have any class. My ... promised myself that no matter what, I wouldn't do any work until the Monday of break. (Well, initially, I said "no academic work but I'll start on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  thing is that I was so careful this ENTIRE summer to not get injured, but ... me cringe, and this often works against me. I definitely didn’t shorten ... twist behind my back, I thought my life was over. Not being able to walk

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  they love and find it’s not so bad after all. I’ve talked to both ... working through problem sets and exams, and using one side of your brain ... ’s not about finding the right answer to a problem. My only job is to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  , numbers and one-upmanship equivalent of the "Not necessarily being the ... that unfolded right after your graded work landed on the desk in front of ... lies the curse: if you're not comparing your performance to something

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  hundreds of responses from prospective applicants — all unedited. Not every ... lot of people in admissions have not been eager for bloggers, mostly ... 're learning, slowly, that this is how the world works, especially for high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  and shirts and ties! What am I not prepared for? Nowadays, most high ... work) and arrange the fruit so that it is exposed to the air (i.e. don ... work! You can even make your own dehydrator with a little bit of solder

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  . Literary works are read with an emphasis on different forms of autobiography ... , poetic impulses. Throughout the term, students examine the work of ... .351 (my sub for 8.09), so that's probably not going to happen. Out of those

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  "Buddy Holly" to Weezer. Yesterday I met three people who did not know who ... through high school without doing any work, then I got to my first 8.01 test ... and that vibrational degree of freedom, and I was not going to be told

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006