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• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  was rare for my request to result in me getting full points for a ... it out, I had to make regrade requests. In this blog post, I ... some friends in office hours. 18.06 was pretty chill and it was nice to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Gingerbread Gone Horribly Right "run, run, as fast as you can..."

  

  Gothic with our communal frog spoons) Then, things started to get darker ... . This time, people could also get involved in the baking process! And it ... rails, thanks to some wonderful teamwork—we’re all about the collaboration

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  it to make a program that did things on the Internet. In fact, I ... account, typed a few lines in Python, hit F-5 to run, and...there it is ... 've never really had any formal SolidWorks training (in fact, if you talk to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  background and ability to pay (why else would I get bullied in to sending in my ... . To get in, you must either be the next Newton, or filthy rich. Good ... Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  ever wanted to see just how hot your PC can get before it starts messing ... , become mini-experts in everything from 3D printing to bowling mechanics. If ... time of reflection. It’s easy to become lost in the fact that we only

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Applicants should submit this form ASAP, by February 15th.

  

  Midyear Report serves two purposes: to get your updated grades since you have applied ("Midyear Grades"). to get any other updates since you ... , feel free to add some extra info in the "Subjects taken" box. For example

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  . You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 ... to the students in my CMS class about the RIAA lawsuits that were

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  able to help you get to know MIT a little better than you may have ... important things in life is to be at peace with where you are and what you ... comforting to any of you right now. But if you get nothing else out of the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  with the authors of our features. I think we'll be able to get there in ... seems to demand attention. Alas. Hoping to be back in the office tomorrow ... week so I'm feeling horribly behind in most areas of life. Being sick

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  it out first to get the rough shape and dimensions down and also have a preliminary design to get feedback on. [carousel image1="116775" image2 ... little funny in hindsight how crass some of them turned out to be (usually

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  ’d like to get there eventually from the answer is not a hut in the woods ... brutal. i was reeling from moving to a new city and living in a house with ... feel like a different person. not to be a nerd but in my research there

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  scholarship foundation in Boston. (Note to any anxious soon-to ... scholarship, getting to know them, and talking to them about college. The only problem was I didn’t get to do much of it. So armed with a greater

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... and will continue to be for a long time—I’m about to start an MD-PhD in ... ” education I originally thought I would get. I’m very lucky to be able to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  into a job application, only to not get the job, that is time and energy ... had a feeling I was going to get rejected and I didn't want to give them ... for things I want. But if I ever want to get to anywhere meaningful, I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  gather for our meeting to get us prepared to read your thousands of ... Welcome those of you who have just joined us! I encourage you to read ... each have read this weekend, getting on the same page as far as what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  said e-mails are in the works). I am a student. Students don't get to ... propped up in bed and listening to the Toy Story soundtrack. Anywho, I ... I've decided that before I go to bed I should take advantage of the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  UROP research symposium in January, so he could add that to my letter. I ... started getting interview invites from a handful of the places I applied to ... choice, but since I hadn't had time to get my pants [annotation note

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  lay in its ability to transport me to another world, another story, and ... the best places in the world to be a student” and the top two reasons ... research, MIT, and life in general. One digression led to a conversation on

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  ? It's the thing you do if you major in life sciences and want to get a ... 's an attempt to get my smarter peers interested in it so that they might ... more). Furthermore, I am not incredibly confident in my ability to get a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  Random to fall housing in McCormick (a sweat-driven Tuesday morning haul ... feels that pit of dread drop in their stomach as things get worse and ... way back to the States near the end of week 3 after a few days in Japan

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019