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• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  i'm currently in the midst of my second week of online school. things ... this time spent living at home to do the things i don't have the time to ... feel occupied enough to avoid the quarantine tedium. and it feels very

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  officer in the month of April, naturally, I was at still at work. I was helping coordinate the opening show for our Campus Preview Weekend - a super ... get together for the first time. The Logarhythms were preparing for

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  dad is in the front seat; I'm in the back, sharing space with enough bags to make our car dip just a little bit. To my left in the line for the gas station is the cutest U-Haul ever made. "We could have used one

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  i like to call 'standard' which is more or less the grammatical way to ... the blogs. Capitalizing the word 'I', being careful not to overextend ... think I have a personal twist to the standard style that actually might be

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  This summer, I was enrolled in one of the five summer@future classes being offered for MIT students (with the snazzy bonus of summer housing ... more specific and less caps-locky, this was the course description: 7.S

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 You must enter the HASS-D lottery to take this ... the forms and structures of argumentation, including organization of ... vehicle for improving one's style while studying the nuances of the language

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  selections from the upcoming movie "Jumper", as well as a discussion panel ... Mrs. Smith" and "The Bourne Identity" trilogy), and MIT physics ... Darth Vaders up on the stage at 26-100, so there was a pretty sizable

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  group, your host is the house, rather than a particular person). You ... decision about where to go to school. But will the slice be what you're looking for? I remember reading a comment last year on one of the blogs

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  "The Adventures of Pete and Pete." Happy Groundhog Day! Wow, thanks for all your responses to the lynn/lonn/line poll. My high school math ... "), "tan". Then you get to the hyperbolics and it's "sinch," "cosh" and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  find that I'm blindly optimistic about classes on the first week (see: 18 ... the class and ultimately lose interest and motivation to do well in it, therefore doing the bare minimum and using PNR to my full ability. Now, I don

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  went into a lab in the secret sub-basement of Building 66, pressed "on" on a heater, and let it heat up for 20 minutes while the a computer recorded the temperature. Sure, that sounds pretty easy for a lab experiment

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Announcement] The MIT Bloggers are hosting an AMA! Ask us anything this Friday and Saturday!

  

  ; The MIT Bloggers are hosting a 2-day [annotation note="If you don't know ... of people based on a specific topic. It has its roots from the r ... AM, I'm going to make a post (on the MIT Blogs) called "ASK US (the MIT

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  today, while my friends and I were walking down the river to Trader Joe ... classes that fulfill me instead of the ones that are required, and ... take only the classes that make me happiest, which will include some Mech

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  often submitted by a counselor or school official alongside the required ... these letters from the people who know you best and can advocate most compellingly on your behalf, whether or not they have taught you the most
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  6.7800 (Inference and Information, the subject of the exam and by far the most challenging class I’ve ever taken) but four years of MIT ... good way). It’s one of the reasons why I’ve written so many blog posts

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  dream the whole thing. I get a little bit jumpscared when I get an alumni ... "]MIT Educational Counselor[/annotation] for this application season, and being on the other side of the table feels both intriguing and odd.   [caption

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  's How I Take Care of Myself at one of the most stressful colleges in the ... to study at one of the most famous STEM institutions in the world. Yet, they also knew just how stressful the MIT culture is. It's not that the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  could be robots or math or cheesecake or Netflix. Mmmm, cheesecake). The ... fitting microcosm of the larger spectrum of things MIT tries to capture. I ... ’m a senior, and he’s a junior. We still live in the same floor of Random

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  The November Rule is the unspoken rule we have on campus that ... st.  three years ago, my sister wrote the November Rule blog. a year later, in an ironic (and quite sad) twist of fate, I broke the November

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  recommend"] like 15 hours writing [/annotation] about the food I ate for a solid month. At the end of it, I admitted defeat: like a bear who has stocked up on food stores from the plentiful fall, i too shall go hibernate

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025