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• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  The month of January felt like a whirlwind this year – it was filled ... of video. I was definitely busy, filling up most hours of my days with ... to take advantage of the fact that New York is a cheap bus ride away

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  ... but remember, the entropy of the universe increases in all natural ... your floor's chances of winning by entering in all five! Happy Cooking ... that they'd had enough of seeing so many other floors' entries in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  my experiences enough to come up with some deep analysis of my semester ... you guys is the two months of illness and a phat bundle of electric ... . Quadrant one is like the “Omg my quality of life is so freaking good” section

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  longer lists of the books I want to read and the places I want to go, and ... personal though sometimes hints of my life find their way in. And if the past year has shown me anything, it is that I have changed. The idea of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  This past June, we wrote Axes of Confusion, a post about our struggle ... , specifically in terms of a course 6 class we ended up taking last semester, the infamously brutal 6.031 (Elements of Software Construction). This is what we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  NYC admitted students meeting was nothing short of amazing. A lot of it ... Cline made the alumni of Stuyvesant currently attending MIT (Stuyvesant being the majority of the room) speak, as well as Alums from other high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  was floating, ruminating on a series of fairly disjoint memories. It was one of those experiences where you come away with distinct feelings, although very little in the way of concrete thought. Here are a few of those

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  living in a universe of Organic Chemistry. To the point where Orgo and real ... For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever-growing and never-shrinking universe that is Organic Chemistry. Time and time

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  distance of 77 Massachusetts Avenue uneaten at, pardon the grammatical ... than getting problem sets finished on a Friday night instead of chewing ... see any more of those, really). Honestly, I can't count the nights when

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  You've now had a chance to post lots of questions. Now it's my turn ... ? Primarily biology? Chemistry? Mathematics? A little bit of everything? It includes a little bit of everything, and because it's such a flexible major

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  morning, and strolls through rows of dark offices. And there are the "crust" -- graduates of years past that still hang around the hall -- which reveal all sorts of things of interest when you poke them. But along with all the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  've graduated!!! Holy smokes, four years of MIT and now it's over. It seems like ... moment, all of the episodes, and you realize that it didn't go fast, that ... slow or quicken the progression of time. So here we are, four years from

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  significant single decision as choosing a university. But I’m facing a lot of ... I have something of a love-hate relationship with 2015. Last year was defined by its discontinuities. The first half of the year was spent trying

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  ). While technically you don't need any knowledge of 18.02 to understand 18 ... because of my awesome addition skills. (Kindergarden, remember?) As I got ... , and spends most of his time framing houses. He used to come home from

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM

  

  the draft saved in a folder outside of the vortex folder on my desktop that’s named desktop, that just contains folder versions of my old ... in my mind, DOOM was a myth. DOOM was an idea. DOOM was one of those

  • by kellen manning
  • January 2, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  quantitative measures of growth. I first realized my tendency to quantify at the end of last semester. One of my final assignments in a literature class ... . Scrutinize a block of imagery for theme and characterization? No problem

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  happiness. I’ve collected 400 hours of bus angst over the past three years, of ... wrote an unhappy list of all the people I was unhappy at, which Cory R ... edged into the middle of the line to the bathroom and after ten minutes of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  I remember the first time I ever heard of Facebook. I was donning my ... personal hero of mine) so I figured it was some sort of creepy cultish leather tome with yellowed pages and predictions about how each one of us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  The February 13 edition of Time Magazine had an interesting article ... keystroke away. There was one part of the article that made me feel a bit ... elite universities are getting that message loud and clear. Melisa Gao, 20

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

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  mystical fog of technological magic and innovation. I still decided to come ... , upperclassmen I knew from high school, and of course the academic excellence and intensity. I wanted to address some of the fears and concerns I struggled

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018