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• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  due. — i signed up for 18.701 because it was the right thing for me to ... .701 became a way for me to start learning pure mathematics to the degree that i ... right that i could do to prepare for this course. i told myself that i

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  group pointed and laughed at him for having to work with me. Needless to ... like, quite frankly, I'm upset that I didn't apply to MIT for undergrad ... Last June, I returned to my former high school to present an

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  that are on campus. If you love to sing and dance, there's a group for ... Happy Valentine's Day to all you lovely readers of the MIT blogs! I promise I haven't been trying to avoid blogging... but the last week of IAP

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  minutes, and headed out to Boston for some happy sunny day shopping. (Key ... -shirts to the crowd. It was a great game -- the last one I'll ever cheer for ... like a real ski girl.") for my birthday. So far, though, I've managed to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  traffic. I was headed to alewife, where I would fetch my car for the ... to follow -- after a man's death, and I heard them praise him for his ... some venue through which to offer my respect for the man

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  So first off, props to Evan for answering all these questions in his own comments like 2 weeks before I got around to doing it. Way to make ... : [email protected]... Well, that's what these blogs are for- to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  In response to this blog entry: (As a reminder) Don't hesitate to ask me questions any time; you don't just have to wait for a blog entry ... or sophomore, are you limited to the classes you have to take? For

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  within to the edge of what can be loved." Autobiography of Red is for ... in the face. Always to look life in the face and know it for what it is. At last to know it. To love it for what it is, and then, to put it away

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  the life I could’ve lived it’s like one of those “what if” episodes

  

  For most of high school, I knew exactly which college I wanted to go ... didn’t think it was possible for me to actually get in. And if I couldn ... for my life to stay awake the entire time. But Jana had a physics exam

  • by Hala K. '29
  • April 12, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  those rare moments for me, I find coding to be really frustrating. After a ... asleep for what was meant to be an hour-long nap before 8.01, but I woke up ... ="Side note: Shoutout to my friends, advisor, and S3 for validating my concerns

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  stupider than ever come with me for a week in 🔥HELL🔥

  

  me in limbo for what to do over the summer. The options are: a) Stay ... for funding. This requires me finding somewhere to live in the next four ... to feel like I’m actively moving forward in the world. Going home for

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  for hotel check in to start, I got to see my grad student friends ... resonance for an hour straight took a lot out of me, but I was free to look at ... good or not. Because for good food, new friends, subsidized ski trips

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  me being late to cook dinner for Adam and Ben writing me an excuse note ... wanted to see V for Vendetta because I'd heard it was a gripping dystopic ... , professors, and grad students?" The easiest question there to answer is how I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  something that I had to send back to MIT, and it asked for my religious ... admission-related mailing from MIT. It contained a form to apply for my student ID, a form to apply for my athena username, some instructions on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  : they're not just for kindergarteners! I never used to take short naps ... a week, too. Wuss. 16. Being afraid to ask for help is a very major ... school backgrounds, and freshman year was pretty hard for me. So the fact

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  adjust to covid, and also started my own club for making viral educational ... and i thought about how absurd it was that i was even allowed to be ... only allowed to be at home or at friends’ places or in public spaces like

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  for the day, we took a quick run to Target and bought all our kitchen ... coming soon) into a new one in the heart of Boston. Unbeknownst to us ... which we were originally okay with because it was just like dorm living to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  10:30 → Wake up. Panic. No time for real breakfast. It’s too early to ... by a carefully selected playlist. I look forward to the commute for ... :00 → Second UROP meeting! Same place, different project. For this one, I get to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  , arriving in mailboxes across the nation just in time for everyone to celebrate today's excuse for the industry to make lots of money selling ... In case you haven't realized it yet, I'm going to let you guys all in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  made the 12-hour round trip from Boston to Ithaca, NY. When I departed Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three years to attend the graduations of all of the students that I admitted to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006