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• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  's offered in terms of back stage work for freshman. Also, are students allowed ... can send in our January scores, I would like to take the SAT again. I have already submitted my RD application, without filling in the "SAT to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  intersection of their everyday language and mathematical jargon is non-empty. In other words, MIT is overrun with math people who cannot help but speak in tongues math gibberish. It’s almost inevitable in this little cauldron of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  Summer in Alaska, I learned this July, is an exuberant, unrestrained ... reaching the heavy heat of Kentucky summers, summer in Alaska feels more ... , if aimless. I re-read all the Newbery-winning books I loved in

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  Shuli's help, a small switcheroo occurred. So in a few minutes, here are ... correctly, one of the bloggers in our meeting mentioned that they would read the blogs in 4th grade or so. I, for one, was definitely not one of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  was in high school i never felt really sad when the seniors graduated, because i know they’ll be around. many are going to college in plv or upd or ... people around. but, this is supposed to be different, right? i am in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  Saturday and bouncing out of bed. I love wearing headphones in a hipster ... their parents in the Infinite Corridor - the former are bouncy and the ... Room, for teacher registration. To be fair, it's no less chaotic in here

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  medicine was supposed to do, but I remember that I put it in one of those ... proudly brought it to school, got up in front of the class, and spent thirty ... that I got up and didn't say anything at all. Elsewhere in the spacetime

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  ="MIT offers a special opportunity for students to acquire a masters degree in ... I have to because one of my goals for this blog in general is to be ... , really wanted to do, something I had brought up in our group chat because I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  detailing the ways in which I’d like to offer my help to spread leads but didn ... fashion. It was launched in print and online in early 2018, with new issues ... that are usually of similar content. in infinite, we expand this

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  days in [annotation note="Independent Activities Period"]IAP[/annotation], Bad Ideas Weekend takes hold in MIT like glitter: it’s everywhere, if you look hard enough, and it catches the light, even in the dark

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  string is everywhere, splayed out in front of me like...like...well, I was gonna say like guts in a murder scene, but maybe that's a tad bit too ... calendar. I like checking off tasks in my bullet journal. I like my string

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  summer has been really fun. I really wanted to stay in Cambridge this year ... with me in East Campus over the summer as well. But the first two weeks ... to it, and utilized the remaining 8 hours of my day in the best ways I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  you can enjoy that!). No one can move from living in a house to on their own in one day and have no problems, so hopefully these tips and tricks ... honestly something I have not yet mastered hahaha. When I was in high school

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  will offer advice on how to succeed, unless you’re me, in which case they ... ’t notice, I’m a newborn in the blogging world, with this being my very first ... orientation, each MIT freshman has the option to take part in a freshman pre

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  latest battle in a war which began when the Internet began an age of ... should ally with Lessig or Valenti in the interminable copyfight. Nor is it ... many other in disrupting our service to protest SOPA and PIPA. Here

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

  So You Want to Make a BrassRat? A very very very long year in review.

  

  in the footsteps of another blogger, Jessica Z. ‘27, and serve as the ... class at their halfway point through the institute. In a nutshell, this ... the BrassRat/RingComm as shown in the non-exhaustive list below (partly

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 31, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  in the Z-Center... I tried to orient myself to the layout of the ... offered the opportunity to go visit the iRobot HQ. Knowing that I might not ... it back from our 6 hour trip in one piece with the Roomba! This past

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  was in fifth grade, right before spring break. I was called into the ... . In a car ride to my dad's place, he asked me "Why would you say shit ... month after this. 2. The second time was in my freshman year of high

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I ... this! Classes CMS.701 Current Debates in Media taught by Ed Schiappa Addresses important, current debates in media with in-depth discussion of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  these past few months, like Celeste or Night in the Woods. Well, the one I've been playing a lot of in the last two weeks is Slay the Spire, a ... of video game where you control a character and fight monsters in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021