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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  , an author I worshipped in high school. I thought about everything I ... crying in bed, the exercise journal I kept and meals I skipped for the sake ... . I've been sitting in bed trying to read notes for 6.867--the class I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An American Idol Math Question You guys are all good in math; help me out with this one.

  

  You guys are all good in math; help me out with this one. My mom ... stay open for two hours following the show. Seacrest said that 50 million people registered their votes, roughly 16.67 million for each contestant

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  "You only get in trouble for a hack if you damage property or endanger ... stand around in the living room for a family Christmas party. If you have ... Laura had an interesting entry a little while ago about the Mario

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  in a couple days, after this eight-week vacation. For now I’m wandering ... thought I’d left behind, but really they were just waiting for me here, in ... -professor stereotype, so absorbed in [annotation note="for inevitably it is a he, a white

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  International Baccalaureate, etc. For students in these systems, your results will ... , "What is the deadline for SAT scores to be sent in?" Please designate your ... them in plenty of time for regular action decision making. EA Deferee

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading ... comfortable enough to actually fall asleep. A fifteen-minute nap in Hayden can ... Discovered About Myself Freshman Year... 1. There is no substitute for sleep

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  in, i also read through all the course materials for a few other ... capabilities in creative ways that i’d for the most part never considered before ... physical body. for instance, they put white people in black avatars and found

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  where he was in the hospital to spend time with him for a week. It was ... have other things in your life that you’re living for. Calling my family ... Four years ago, in October 2012, Lydia published a blog post titled

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  looking for something harder. This was dumb. I decided I wanted to run an ... in with all the other ultra runners. And then it was time for the ultra ... ,000 calories, and running for 19 hours, I collapsed in some rando stranger

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  An Atypical Saturday: That followed an atypical week MIT is certainly an unusual place. Case in point: no one really asks how your day is ... place one week at a time. For me, each week is like a round in a boxing

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  .005 (Disease and Society in America a.k.a. my humanities class for this ... noble intention in mind, I woke up bright and early on Sunday morning, gathered my books, went to a study room, and didn't move for about four hours

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  foundation for later fluency and understanding the role of ASL in Deaf history ... could hypothetically take and imagining my futures in them. Of course, the ... romanticizing the classes and picturing myself seated in the classroom learning

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  past. But for now, in dreadfully uncreative bullet form, I’ll highlight ... in an actual YouTube educational video, as a host. Here a preview of ... , or tune in for Google Hangout sessions, or just struggle through the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  an admittance to Phillips Exeter, arguably the best high school in the ... the state win for the first time in three decades. We even beat Phillips ... took the state win for the first time in three decades. We even beat

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  of materials). Here are the five writing assignments I did for these two classes. Assignment 1 – A White Paper (3.010) In true MIT fashion ... spectroscopy to characterize the surface structures of electrocatalysts used in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  your requirement for an Intro to Python class! Firstly, kudos to you ... that well in 6.145. Sure, I got an A, but how much of that did I really absorb? I also want to LA for the class in the future, so it might do me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  ’d learn to love it, to use it as an anchor that keeps me going back for more ... "]wake up at 7am,[/annotation]and head down into the cramped gym in the ... person who would come as we were finishing. In the quiet of the building

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  A letter for you (yes, you)

  

  think of it as an invitation. For some, it will be an invitation to see how MIT can play a further role in your story. For others, it will be an ... Dear Applicants, Each year at this time, I feel an overflowing

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / CPW

  an orange tour 🍊🍊🍊

  

  me. Isolated color is a fun lens in which to view the world. I hope you find some joy in it, too. P.S. For context, I didn't film this livestream ... agenda, I polled my dorm for orange recommendations—results here. Ever

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • April 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  less time in bed and on a sofa. Keep an eye out for numbers 6-13! ... fascinating externships, or participate in an assortment of competitions. Last ... yourself in some way. And while this is surely an admirable outlook on life

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015