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• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  really look for the answer here on the site -- there's no need to ask basic questions, for example, about standardized test requirements or statistics. If ... many places in the world. As for the SATs, you may do either -- either

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  comments section of this post and ask any questions you might have for us ... going to be busy from 8pm-10pm on April 18 for a blogger-centric CPW event ... be about MIT, or how our days have been, what we ate for breakfast, etc

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  my psets and my tendency to use their Apple Pencil for goofy doodles ... for me. Marla is the phone I got before freshman year of high school, and who I continued to use (and drop) for the next five years. The hall

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  . Theory of computation - 18.404 The basic setup for this class, at the ... for any instance of the problem? We need something concrete acts as an ... property. For example: L = {(a, b, c) | a + b = c} is a language of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  Kicad from [annotation note="Electronics for Mechanical Systems II"]2 ... the LEDs, and of course a bunch of LEDs. For this project, Kicad's built in library already included all of the symbols for the components that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  search for truth or objective reality or illusion or whatever. two ... singer as a fire for the cold listener. compares themselves to a river and ... brace myself for. everything comes close to evoking existential dread, but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  works for several years. In fact, the trip to Brazil would likely have ... MIT and communities in the Amazon rainforest. For the rest of my first ... traditional Brazilian music arranged for the wind ensemble by some Swiss music

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  replace all k sounds with t sounds but that didn’t last long for obvious ... languages for which you can check if something is in the language in ... equal. in multiple problem sets for 18.404, we messed up in just the right

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  wrappers added, for good measure.[/annotation] I quickly piled all of my ... wouldn’t have to deal with the moving carts for a while (if only because ... to [annotation note="For context, Next House freshmen room assignment

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  once I've had a chance to reflect and forgive myself for stupid mistakes ... -name internship for my first-year summer was attainable (it wasn't), then that was ... goals for sophomore fall.   Do Laundry More Often  I had a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  I made. UPDATE: Here's the 2022 post. Things I read for class I took ... ). Content warning for domestic violence. This isn't a short story, but I think ... (3381 words). Content warning for violence. This one's cheating because

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  got switched to hard mode for me after November started (and no, this ... before I sat in Bates Hall for about two hours and made progress on my ... draft done for [annotation note="Intro to Media Studies"]CMS.100

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  barricades, I was hooked, and I knew I had to go to concerts for the rest of my life. High school was a pretty difficult time for me. I had a lot of ... socially. My mom, knowing how difficult school was for me, started promising

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  , waiting for my next class, and then an info session, and my tutoring job ... -up instinct, and then I jaunt around for the morning, and crash for a nap in the afternoon and feel sleepy for the rest of the evening. But I feel sleepy all

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  . Although I would not have believed this for a second had I heard of it ~4 ... seminar program that was literally just for teaching you how to do good on ... internships really wound up lining up for me this year. I was lucky enough to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  Those of you who have been following me on the blogs for a while - or ... qualify what exactly about it has stuck with me for ~40% of my life - the game is [annotation note="it was released in 1997 for the playstation 1

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  panic about our living situations for the next few months. My perspective ... days so that I’d have no regrets. For context, I live in Burton-Conner, a dorm that’s closing down until my senior year for renovations. For

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  at our respective colleges. For the 24th and 25th, I spent time at the ... had been through it already. On the 26th, I drove into LA for the first ... home for sushi. Worst mistake of my life. We had 50+ orders of sushi

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  and professor at MIT,[/annotation] and I lamented about my fears for the ... note="for those like me, who are not marathon runners, or runners at all ... you’re already in college or still in high school. Even for just a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  reiterate: LA is not a city made for walking. like, in any sense ... [/annotation] and get to work around 8:20 so i can [annotation note="for free because ... kitchen[/annotation] until 8:50, which is around when i usually clock in for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019