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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  can't tell if I love or hate. I’ll be working on the problem sets and ... workload is super intense, and my brain can only take so much abuse before ... and rewarding, but doing them takes forever and routinely costs me sleep

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  ’t worry so much! You’ll be happy wherever you end up!”, and so on. Okay ... extremely stressed out by cutthroat competition and judgment from high ... interests, a strong work ethic, and a busy life (kind of like now, ha). When I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  ring and bright black and pink hair. i'm applying EA to MIT and i was ... process, and want to learn about the important things that make you you. As ... meeting and learning from all sorts of different people. And certainly, if

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  This is the fourth and last part of a series, consisting of a lightly ... , and part three. Hour 70: 7:50 AM PST, January 6th, 2023 location: just outside of Winnemuca, NV train: #5, one hour and 58 minutes late

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  just one more gnome game it will fix me

  

  . Google Gnome Game and its consequences have been a disaster for my productivity. I wake up and play gnome game. I finish writing up a proof and give ... after posting, it is now 3582 4389 IM GOATED), and my backward record is

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  morning pale and grey. There are jobs that need doing in the basement by the street, where a massive CNC machine chatters and hums. You’re breathing ... cut look clean.  One piece you cut is fine and smooth, but the next has

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  even made a playlist before, and my voice isn't really the best for ... member, and was on air within weeks. I've continued to remain involved ever since, hosting my own show and eventually joining student management as

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  to read, draw, write, cook/bake, listen to new music, and journal to be ... feel occupied enough to avoid the quarantine tedium. and it feels very high-school-esque. in my junior and senior years, i took only a few

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  It's been four years since I applied to MIT, and while I've been ... November, and I'm reminiscing about my own early action application. Here's what I wrote about, and what I would change if I could do it all over

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  , so I stayed inside. Then sun came out so my friend Gabi N. '22 and I took a study break and went for a walk! nice weather, viewed from the ... ) purchase their residents breakfast and dinner during Finals Week. So instead

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  I checked my Timehop today and saw a tweet about how I was stressed ... relentlessly and questioned everything about myself, whether the things I liked and loved to do were likeable enough, whether I was even an interesting

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  , sat down next to a kindly elderly British woman with a posh accent…and ... , and one inedible snack later, the plane began its descent. Lower, lower, lower, lower, and the tarmac rose to meet us, until WHOOSH. The nose of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  [by Elise Ruan '14] Dear prefrosh (and prospies), By the time ... some of you overachievers) to figure out your hobbies and interests. Many ... ’ve spent your whole life being told to try new things and find what you like

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  students to forums, where they could talk over pizza and snacks. They sought our impressions of the class and suggestions on how to make it better - and they do listen. For instance, some students mentioned there weren

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  see, MIT currently has a rather unorthodox dining system, and by that I ... add money to a TechCash account and whenever your ID is swiped anywhere on campus – and a few places off campus – the money is deducted from

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  School is out and many times high school students struggle to find ... with tough academic classes, sports, extracurricular activities, and ... the couch and watch Gossip Girl, Degreassi, and OchoCinco: The Ultimate

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  to go off. I go and look at my computer (which is supposed to be my ... 's battery had completely drained. I wait 20 minutes for the shower, and then ... to campus on my way there. And thus began the second of the dreariest

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  singular noun that ends in s AND the next word begins in s, you don't use an ... boat; let's spend the dorm's money and take a trip out into the middle of nowhere!" And everybody else was all "Woohoo! Nowhere!" And so, with the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  for a little while and say hi. Unfortunately, as the name implies, no ... that I was making clothing out of duct tape and decided to go all out. I ... everything in their rooms and taping their room keys somewhere to their body

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  design a CPU from scratch. 6.2050 is like 6.1910 but much more hands-on and ... bring back 6.08"]Joe Steinmeyer[/annotation] teaches it, and he’s a great ... and building a robot that could learn to recognize people’s voices. And

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023