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• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  teachers know me much better in person, so I was thinking of asking teachers ... letters of recommendation, I'll tell you that you can help your recommenders ... letters, I can try to address them in the comments below. But my main point

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Highlights From The Past Week A post on birthdays and bad (but oh so good) TV.

  

  last week... the new Alias season began. In general I don't have time to ... 't missed an episode ever and this is season 4. 6) I can't believe I'm going to admit this in a public forum but the only other show I make time to

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  they used). in june, i came around, mostly because some of my very best ... in my feelings all the time (like i'm sure lots of us have been for the ... in april, i was sure that in september, i'd be on MIT's campus again

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  material in their classes. Suddenly, you fall into a spiral of “how do i even ... to shed those worries as soon as I was in front of a classroom. My ... . A friend of mine came in to borrow a whiteboard marker, and I gave him

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• FAQ / Transfer

  Am I eligible to apply for transfer admission?

  many students we can accept. Students who at the time of entry to MIT ... year of college, the earliest you can apply to transfer to MIT is during ... have completed more than two and a half years (i.e., five terms) of
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  weekends either. I kind of feel like I’m back at MIT in that regard. Part of ... taking care of myself right now in this moment. So, here’s a few ways I ... I’ve been spending most of my writing ability and brain power working

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  's neither here nor there. The rest of the week, I essentially just stayed in ... of campus besides me staying in my room all week, many of which I ... I hadn't been sick in years. I mean sure, I've had the occasional

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  , because of how unique it is to an MIT education. I wanted to update my spiel ... -making and there's so much more happening that I wish I could participate in but can't because I'm home reading your applications. (It's okay, you

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Cultured C-Show 2011

  

  in the future. (4) I learned that the ratio of Dunkin' Donuts to ... were absolutely hilarious. Partly because I was participating in some of ... A couple of noteworthy events took place yesterday: (1) I discovered

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  sits right in front of me? i am bored i am chewing on a mat, staring at ... vanish from my todo-list i’m getting tired of fourier transforms these ... material enough i can’t wait for the semester to end this course is too damn

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  summer i hit my ceiling of the amount of things i can work on at once that ... weird. it feels counter to all of the things i've heard about in the past ... day, where i deconstruct a little the notion of being productive. it is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  ." the 2018s were all in your place last year. i spent the whole of ... Dear Applicant, it’s 3:14 am, and i'm sitting in a smoky kitchen ... music and a breeze of spring from the courtyard. i’m talking to a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  I can’t imagine what it must be like to face such a tragedy, I think I can speak for all of MIT in saying that our thoughts and hearts are with ... so happy to meet so many of you. I hope you all make the right decision

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  long period of time to be properly encoded in long-term memory. I should ... undergraduate. I could go on to address some of the subtleties and differences in ... Kathy's post (A Day in the Life...), but I should also point out that the

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  3-D Blog!! ...I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES!!!

  

  I first thought of giving this blog the fitting title of “My First ... this grand experience, I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES!!! I like to call this one “Cyd in 3-D” So without further ado, I will

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  overwhelming amount of exhaustion. I am doing much less than I ever have in a ... floating in sludge, and that every amount of work I do actually get done ... , but it worked. I learned a lot and gained a lot of confidence in myself

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  of people. I've definitely succeeded in that goal, both at Senior ... you can in addition swap two of them: think of the rotational (then ... contradiction, you can prove anything. I had fun doing this in middle school by

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  ago I landed in Austin, Texas to start an internship at Lumension (they ... in classes but it's something you really can't delve into until junior ... there in an environment where I could ask people detailed questions about

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  once because of how hard a time I had in it. I took two semesters of Japanese, and I struggled immensely in the Level 2 of the class. I loved ... blog about how a lack of direction can be a sense of solace in a way, and

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  if i'll be trampled and shoved in a giant sweaty mass of college ... difficult to remember, but i'm the type of person who can't not prepare for ... rehearsing dialogues in my head, which sucked. now, though, i kind of miss it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020