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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it's still an improvement.” “And what ... slightly embarrassed cough. —The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas ... second or third or fourth petri plate with different antibiotics or food in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  and mental space. In an effort to record at least some of what happened ... for Beginners," it attempts to parody, pick apart, and find comfort in ... I teach weekly quilting workshops in [annotation note='an on

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  't getting an A in this class. WHY? Your work is not good enough, and here are ... It's been one week since decisions were released for the 2023s, and one week and a year since the 2022s got in or didn't; two years and a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  paper were, because that would introduce bias if an author were a ... [annotation note="endearing term for alumni and garbage. but in this case i ... on repeat for choreographing is probably why I’m in the top 0.005% of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  authority figure who I had very little respect for in the first place was ... of a sudden you imagine competing with these people for a spot in a ... swirling in an eddy of college-induced panic was stupid. I didn’t care about

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  days) for an email. In my case, the collection happened from 11:15 am to ... restaurants in Boston; decisions about when to turn off the heating for spring ... clothes in the middle washer; and requests for empty gallon jugs, superglue

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  , they really did—wheeled in old-school arcade games, paid for limitless ... destined for Big Tech in the fall. We talked about majors. She’d opted for ... in my math class—how to compute a probability density function, for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  received a key that I initially assumed was for my room in the visiting ... , astronomy has been an avenue for getting to know my community better -- at ... ’s worth struggling through, bearing in mind that it’s normal for it to be

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  what we were learning in class, and get an intuition for reading and ... wanted to be an engineer to begin with.  2.00C: Design for Complex ... . Shoutout to An and Trevor for being the best TA's.  Return to Table of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  submission in this blog. [annotation note="well it's actually been two weeks at ... a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge."]Last week[/annotation] I got back [annotation note="how the process for the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... simply typing up words whenever an idea for a story comes to mind, but ... , and an increased sense of affection for what is mechanically no more

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  for my day job, I’m trying to combine my experience in biological ... BORING. I went to the post office to mail in an application at midnight ... community, a home away from home. Not only did you see an MIT that came in the

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  for the 'extra time' I should have saved. Where did that go? In a single ... awful feeling, being behind in a class. An awful pattern even, because, it ... "Go to class. Go to class. Go to class." But that's for dumb kids who

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  register an account for and make progress in. Compare this to the archived ... permanence For transience The gift of puzzles Sandbagging Free as in ... of in the same way we can do for poems and short stories. Hence the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him ... the name of the author. Let’s call him (again, for privacy) William ... a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  in an organization for students who were honest, morally upright ... , but I got in, and he didn’t. When MIT hopefuls ask what an MIT student ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  ’re deferred, and you get trapped in an endless purgatory, living in torturous limbo for an eternity before inevitably executed. Or you’re not accepted ... afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  ][2][3][4][5] for quick access.) Note that these are not stories in the mythical ... , was personality-altering for me. In my math and CS classes, we talked ... value of an "MIT education" -- in serendipities, not dollars. Last night

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few ... had this 21W phase in which I would become an esteemed science ... perceived problems in the world, and I’ve been granted the authority to say

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  weekend CPW's origins are rooted in a program for prospective women and ... earliest thing I've seen in the Tech that could be considered an admitted ... predecessor to the larger Women's Weekend held two years later, in 1984. In an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021