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• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  ?) is the same: you come to MIT, most likely as a freshman, bright ... go to M-I-expletive-T, a girl thinks to herself on the first day of ... fingers that shakes a bit when she thinks about how much she struggled to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  20 Things I Learned In 2020 from a course 20 who is in her 20s

  

  to use. Cartography is still very much a thing. It's okay to not be ... someone I didn't get a chance to say goodbye to :( Oftentimes, there is a ... circle really is a lot larger than I often perceive it to be. I will

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 1, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  [annotation note="I watched one of my friends fill out the form to drop a twelve ... ='Baker House dropped a piano off the roof to celebrate!']April 25th ... manage my time, and how to select a courseload that will make me feel

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  delight when a few weeks ago Greg called excitedly to tell me that my visit ... On Friday I flew out to California to visit my friend Greg. Greg is ... area, where he works at a pretty awesome solar energy startup called Cool

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  here's a brief message brought to you by my junk mail.) I have a first ... - which is fun, but can lead to a lot of confusion. When I first started ... . Talk to upperclassmen. Wander into strange rooms. Host a random dance

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Call For Bloggers As promised, here's an entry that will explain this year's application process for admissions bloggers.

  

  to maintain a balance between new students and upperclassmen. That said ... is awesome!). To be considered for a blogger position, you should email ... current bloggers had been keeping a personal blog for years prior to working

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 26, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  likely to see someone wearing a cape than a popped collar. ... Admissions: In a kind of virtuous circle, the "second tier" schools got better as applications rose and they could become choosier in assembling a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  subject I'm poor at, and applies it to biology, a subject I'm good at. We ... Institute Requirements in a blender and added basic neuroscience - I have to ... of cool optical illusions. I get to remember how to do convolutions, a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  was such a great guy," said Kanamori, who was surprised to find that ... to Dulles International Airport (designed by Eero Saarinen, who also designed MIT's Kresge Auditorium and Chapel) and discovered that due to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  stereotype was one of the things that turned me off to CMU. It wasn't until a ... Last night after work and before the Red Sox game, I went out to ... Sciences, a former admissions officer and current employee of Open

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  for the course is to pick a spot in nature relatively near to Boston, go ... a halfway point: between the cold winter days to the dreadfully hot ... middle of a pandemic, I had a front row seat to see a late April

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  . similarly, looking at my grades is a choice i can make. i don't have to look ... too much. or, when a deadline for a decision is coming, i don't have to ... expecting everyone to find this post helpful. ignorance might be a good coping

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  's 15 and she didn't go to high school. She worked in a lab instead, and ... I got back to Boston from summer vacation September 2, and it's like what...October 2? o_____O One of my favorite stanzas to the Engineer

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  On April 16th, 2020, my life changed. That’s a kitschy way to put it ... begun to claw its way through the United States, and a month earlier, MIT ... make. I called my parents in a panic because I didn’t know what to do

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  to their houses for a weekend. Joe lives in Portland, which is "Maine ... well as a fantastic place to spend a weekend. So, I ended up taking ... I assume to be "Be Cool" on the bus ride up and I saw a brief where

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  't be surprised to hear that writing an essay or studying for a midterm ... think it is a lesson that many of the people who get admitted to MIT would ... enough time to do anything else. Same lesson, I guess, but it hits a little

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  wasn't given a ticket to Commencement. So I went with my friend in the ... credits to Rosemond D. '17 Photo credits to Andres A. '17 Photo credits to Andres A. '17 Photo credits to Jake H. '17 Photo credits to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  at 7 am... but it was a pretty boring month of my life. We tried to ... to be A TON OF WORK (ie, I'm working on the weekends) which can be ... about Cambridge- Being able to explore such a beautiful little city on

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  isn’t actually that hard to unsubscribe from a mailing list, or even just a specific flame war. CJ and I wanted to ask the question: “what can ... paid[/annotation] to write this post. Alan: I’ve been in a few clubs

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  , currently one minute early! currently listening to: a baby crying (nothing ... commotion of a conductor trying to figure out some passengers who had ... unconscious for most of the past hours. An hour and a half to Chicago—time to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023