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• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  rink, a track, and a basketball court; over 4000 students attend. It's preceded and followed by a lot of info-sessions, panels, networking events, and anxiety. Last year, I went to the career fair with the primary

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  events in 10 different colors) and I realized that if I cross my eyes ... a planner (I jot it down and never open the planner again), but mainly due to apathy and laziness. I've realized that the philosophy which

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  , and a stay at a luxury hotel that looks like the one from The Shining ... us. And so, MIT tries to get as many researchers as possible to come to ... with the average broke-college-student budget. Andi and I were both on

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  on personal enjoyment/emotional impact and not at all on literary merit ... letters, and a list of all the books. S: will reread again and again ... The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Of Mice and Men by

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  put up on classroom walls? They always summer, fall, winter, and spring with the colors of a tree: from green, to orange, to white, to pink, and ... -bordered (cut) and taped together–definitely a lesson in patience and attention to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  correct. basketball is a complicated sport and there are many exceptions to every principle i’ve been watching basketball on-and-off for a while now and my favorite part of the game is seeing very effective defense. there

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  you've looked like before and inform you of the change now. Another ... and bones", which is viewed as a sign of malnourishment. To eat food and ... insult, and more like an inside joke, a reminder of the culture that we

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  I've been dancing on a team at MIT for one and a half years, but I ... previous posts, a significant portion of my free time through middle and high ... I started mirroring and slowing videos so I could mimic them. A few

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  -- and where there aren't murals, there are blackboards and whiteboards ... holding lots of scribbled equations, but also to-do lists and schedules and ... normalcy and community we can, my housemates and I have produced our own

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  -registration helped me make friends at Harvard and how our friendship has evolved since we met. In this post, I describe how we've stayed in contact (and even ... /No Record didn't magically make us stop trying, surprisingly"]psets and exams

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  graduated on June 5, the '14s graduated on June 6, and the '13s graduated on June 7, and the '12s graduated on June 8. The late commencement date is ... weekend for Patriots' Day, and all the other schools in the area Commence

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

    While it's easy to think and talk about the incredible ... impacted you though, and following a recent trip (we'll get to that) I'm reminded about the discovery of an entirely unacademic (and some would argue

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  me feel like my brain has broken and turned into soft food for babies ... note="puzzlers"]game-problem-loving-people[/annotation] and other ... [/annotation] happens once a year, and it is filled with up to 3 days of many very

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  . ------------------------------------- Dan wrote: "I think creative writing and contemporary literature (1 ... than BRITISH LITERATURE (honors), but it's not as challenging and that ... 'll be in AP calculus, AP physics, AP biology, AP US government and spanish

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  being away from home and my family at that point, since I’d gone to ... ="alignnone" width="1000"] My brother and I at a baseball game as kids ... . And no one I knew was there to go through it with me. When my mom left

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  just finished my freshman year, and what a scary and tumultuous time it ... smart enough to be here. And while I do see validity in these questions ... yes/no, I think simply understanding the class system and the choices

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  during lecture. I'm taking three technicals this semester, and if there ... and it has gotten me more into chemistry, but lectures are lowkey ... notes and posting them after, leaving three (3) different files for notes

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Saturday Night in Simmons it's so busy here tonight [i really need to study or go to sleep]

  

  post! So I went to snatch my friend, Caleb M. '27 's camera, and here are the pics I took over like and hour or something, running around Simmons and seeing who's who in this crazy zoo. Christmas Party: Tonight my

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/17/24, at 6:28 PM ET exactly what it says on the tin

  

  many, if not all, of my dear friends make fun of me for and something ... there's SO MUCH MEDIA OUT THERE and I don't mind sitting ... decision on the 17th, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 10, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  for each Friend—to generate data from the Friends script and make sense ... them equally endearing, and it would It's Chandler be unfair to judge ... pieces of data reveal about the characters and their relationships, if it

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023