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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  to avoid doing this in the future. For a while, I've been trying to ... . A few weeks ago, I realized that the word I was looking for was ... -so-secret love for the Internet. Things just happen so much faster online, with a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  year.) Once the national teams are selected, they gather at a site for ... Trivia: Which MIT Professor was the top scorer for the first US ... MIT freshman calculus class back more than a decade ago (wow, I feel old

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  charged with admitting a Class of 2010. And even for students who have had ... remain. I also saw a freshman for New Orleans. The mall that he did his pre ... time for everyone; I've been at the verge of tears over this awful, awful

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  texted a friend to ask for help. I stood up, keeping my head as still as ... . That I was going to leave, and that I wouldn't be back for a long time ... of a concept that Tagalog has a single word for it: ingat. It's the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  …and which lay the smackdown on my morale for a couple of months. I couldn ... steeling myself for the next paper. This was a fluke. I had been careless ... earlier, I would have been set for the previous three papers. After a week

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  for 2022. I love photography and writing, and video is a nice marriage ... visit Ethiopia for about a month, so I couldn’t record her before the ... Making this video was a first for many things: using my camera for video

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  hike Mt. Washington, and leave Boston for a weekend. I want to stay up ... schedule for next semester is theoretically 11 fewer hours per week, and I ... Some Reflections It's been a long decade. When the 2010s started, I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  for the MIT blogs, but also I think it's a very...important part to ... 's a fresh start for me. I recently went through the process of cleaning ... for the first time in a year and a half is incredibly jarring. I have no

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  These are the decisions you’re looking for. 2022s are happening

  

  decisions.mit.edu. To ensure that you will receive a decision online, please ... page is available now for applicants to confirm their login ability and

  • by Decisions Droid
  • March 7, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  compiling a list of distractions for the final stretch. Distractions are great ... rejection. So for those of you who feel like a future at MIT is the only ... . Lastly, here's a video my friends and I made last year for all MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  , for that matter) of Dorm Rush. As a result, they aren't quite sure what ... have to live in a dorm for a year, you might as well find one that you ... assigment. If you're a prospective student, allow me to explain. During the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  Israel, so she served in the army for a couple of years before coming here ... "]6.006[/annotation] midterm was a 71. I scored well below that, which ... generally feel out of my depth in that class, and every pset is a struggle of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  the top presses down like seram wrap blades for a clean rip at whatever ... in Germany for a summer, I could read and understand the language. But ... though cut both ways. - I've been in Tokyo for a week, and will be here

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  ’ve stood in line at Maseeh’s dining hall at 12 pm for a halal burger. I ... news. And bad news. But most importantly, it’s being there for one ... filled with SO MUCH LIFE. I’ve turned in a total of 15 problem sets. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  always my first love, and after I won a national prize in tenth grade for a ... an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write ... from the smell of newly cut grass Tangy, sweet, like a fresh Saturday

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  probably got over-simplified while making a home for itself in my memory. But ... good to specialize. As a grad student, I'm responsible for every detail ... when I discuss science with the public. Last weekend, I gave a talk for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  our new freshmen, Sarah '17, is amazing and cooked a few batches for the ... notes for a professor + being president of my dorm + grad school ... social events, and is a resource for students who are having a tough time

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  if you never took the class. This is a really good system, for several ... 21M.011 had quite a few open seats last semester. (And for that matter ... 're standardized and taken by a large number of people. 3. JE asked, For a research

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  taught in English, but for those looking for a more Spanish ... held four days a week (Monday-Thursday) for three weeks (January 4th ... might seem a bit random. To compensate for the randomness of subject

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  for me in a way that I haven’t done since college applications ... . Pretend you’re a journal editor in 1905 for Annalen der Physik. You receive ... greatly for your submission to Annalen der Physik. After a careful review of

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 24, 2020