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• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  Just like that, freshman year has come and gone. It’s weird to think ... lot about my feelings and about experiencing MIT for the first time ... year. I only noticed it now, but my class selections for the fall and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  graduation. I know what it’s like to move to an entirely new city and state. I ... playing in the background and all. Every time I tried writing this post, my fingers would freeze up and suddenly the activation energy required to start

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  , with a work ethic I admire greatly. Offering me free academic tools and ... Impact on them, and when I used their Apple Pencil to draw the Among Us ... my psets and my tendency to use their Apple Pencil for goofy doodles

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  interviews, and then got offered the role. I think it was similar, if not a bit ... Between the fall and spring semesters at MIT there is a period ... this past IAP. If you'd rather abandon structure and float through IAP

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  planned on waking up at ten at the latest, but both me and my roommate slept ... dressed, and collecting my books, an hour has passed. How did that take an ... and get lunch at a coffee shop. I’d be able to study there too!  

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  bad consequences for the entire Internet as we have come to know and ... blogs are not a partisan platform, and our office is not a partisan policy ... , including Wikipedia, reddit, Reports Without Borders, Google, Mozilla, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  , MIT's computer science department offers an enticing-and ... friend in the head while gesticulating the angle between a wall clock and ... someone every month or so. Statistically, if you have 500 friends, and .5

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  ,  and organizing any noteworthy finds into one of my 150+ carefully ... and fell 100 albums behind by June? would I really be able to devote ... school, I devoured Ready Player One a few days into the new year and had an

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  key to the rest of the site. Each page of the site contains, first and ... world, and so on. Pretty much all admissions sites I've seen have this ... student life and culture, for example, you have almost instant access to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  catching a cold), and it’s usually in a state of disarray, since I often can ... get my haircut at an actual salon, since she thinks that if I bleach and ... apron and ruminated. Hair salons in particular are very good for this type

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  receive an essay that states, "...and that's why Harvard is my dream school ... -serious folk... back away slowly and no one will get hurt. As most of you know, I've been on an AWARD TOUR WITH MOHAMMED MY MAN. And everywhere I go

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  's next? And Regular Action applicants may be now starting their ... hit the northeastern United States this past weekend, we are extending ... . If you wish, you may now fill out the conducted interview form and we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  i’ve been in a perpetual state of writer's block recently (i.e. the ... because that’s when my laundry is supposed to be done and just continuously ... typing class where i first learned the joys of nitrotype and home row

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  our mental states and general satisfaction with life and similarly ... spoilers for the movie arrival (and by extension, the novella story ... a relationship rather than the thing itself. and of course, almost

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  : ambitious and sociable. Even the stated health risks were kind of true, I have ... merit to it? I spent some time doing some thinking and was talking to my ... supreme, grad students and researchers would casually share their Myers

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  freewill and a deterministic universe. It was just one of those things people ... food, information sessions and friendship cultivation that lies buried under a mound of problem sets and midterms. However, each time I'm thought

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  President Sally Kornbluth’s inauguration party this past weekend – go and give ... scorching hot, and a few of us even pulled out our umbrellas to shield ... exhibits (giant sloth/crocodile skeletons, giant fish, and giant water lilies

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  ’re scratching your head and wondering how exactly MIT is allowing me to take this ... GIRs, and have taken one CI-H/HW class. Somewhere between 25-30% of freshmen are offered sophomore standing, but I’d estimate that the percentage

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  offered a slice to Li Brunetto '12, who tasted it and replied, very ... and dusted with cayenne pepper. The first time I slivered the crisp pink ... by the buttery sweetness of ripe apple meat, and finally dissolving

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  forgive me! If it makes it any better, this is a very long and fairly thorough post and also writing it required grappling with my existential dread about the passing of time and a lurking fear that I am wasting my

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023