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• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  mine is make a plan to lessen that 😌 Try out every pen in your house and ... probs have in your room Finally wash that water bottle that’s been in your ... you haven’t talked to in a while Wake up early and watch the sunrise

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  while you guys. I'm happy to report that I'm alive and I'm actually doing ... 's something that I've simply convinced myself to be true, but MIT in fact does ... shifts in perspective that make a huge difference in the way you feel

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  live in Cambridge, MA, how do I come to terms with the fact that I will ... , but I found that happy medium between breaking into a sweat in my all ... If there's one thing I learned about Cambridge in the spring, is that

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  ). Dear Internet, I am not in Course 2 or 6. Also, I like you a lot. Thanks ... Mechanical Engineering (Course 2) after doing a pre-orientation program in the ... (Course 3) major with a minor in Physics (Course 8), which is working out

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  that this is the case for many frosh, in many different colleges. It’s a ... purpose of letting us “decide if this class is a good fit.” Hearing that, I ... Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering

  

  though I will likely have very little to do with structural engineering in ... In order to graduate from Course 1, you have to take a class called 1 ... in MIT speak). There are a LOT of components to this class, but one of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  Hello Internet! I had a very writing major day, which is to say that ... juggle a lot of stuff, since all my friends were doing that too), and I did ... her for that. Me, though, I had a B in Calculus. My B in Calculus

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  in the laundry basket. Doing this is just a lot of effort, especially ... morning person in training. I'm trying my best to find a rhythm that works ... me whether I was a morning person or a night owl in high school, I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  comfortable, is really not necessary for your bed. In fact, I fear that it may ... is not that important. I ranked Baker first in my housing lottery three ... at home ever since. I've been in my house for what I think is going on

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  dreams because all I wanted is to have any job, and not live in the projects. Now that I'm going to graduate MIT in a year I feel like I should ... the heck out! But I'm sure if anyone is learning a lot from robots, it

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  Arduino! A part of me is mad that I found out about the fashion and tech ... be seen or be experienced will happen. That is what I’m doing this ... year has shown me anything, it is that I have changed. The idea of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  made this, so the magenta is also a carbon.But I don't need that name to ... fix that. I'll start with semester one, which is when the proverbial ... . I've been told 18.03, Differential Equations, is better about that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  , which I'll get to in a moment. Classic CYOA books have a branching ... branching structure is more linear. It's governed by the passage of time. In A ... 've seen it by now. Three plays: Maybe that's how life is. There isn't* a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  august by Taylor Swift on repeat. As I grow older, I find that Taylor is ... like a moment in time, sips away like a bottle of wine. Here I am ... to be held in a wiser person’s arms, safe in the knowledge that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  keeping my eyes closed. Do I do it out of fear? Is the person in the ... . I could've still been in high school. I remember talking to a friend ... 't see that glistening adoration in the eyes. I don't feel changed at all

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  discounting and dreading the place I'd lived in and known since I was a small ... feel like a visitor, now that I no longer subconsciously know that I live ... there and you do what you need to in the course of your daily routine. A

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  that you should read.) A week later, I received an email from the Music ... ."]multi-instrumentalist[/annotation]/educator known for basically being a modern-day Mozart. That is to say, he’s an ... … special surprise… for us that day. I will say nothing more.” I was very

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  that'll work. Although it's experimental, I think it's a good ... demon in the sense that he has no morals, and will do anything to get what ... drinking a beer at about the same time that he began to think about going

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  in recitation, and I finally feel like this is a Course 6 class that I ... in edtech, so I think that this will be a cool thing to work on. This ... that's a skill that I'd like to develop this semester, both in classes

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  , and I know that I won't be happy in the long run if I try to do it all ... ’ve ever gone through. If you do: I’m so sorry I know what that feels like ... graduate, and so, in two years, I should have a degree in mathematics from

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022