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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  shuffling when you fly. In my writing class, we're currently working on an ... intended major. I was reaching for the top -- what better place to study computing than MIT? And so it went. I got in and my dream of being some

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  just thrown up for the second time in two hours and felt awful.  This is ... not much more I could do, and I set my alarm for an hour later so I ... and EMT!  Little did I know, my new skills as an EMT were going to be

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  later find out I had headed in the wrong direction. An hour later, I would ... . Turns out BU funds an educational program at MCI in which inmates get to ... had expected to be in MCI for life. She’d taken about four BU classes

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  excelling at math. I'm mad at MIT: I'm taking 102 units in an attempt to start ... I failed an [annotation note="probability and random variables"]18 ... wait for scores to come back to know I failed. I definitely failed

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  for very long. I’d written the story in 2018. Some of the sentences ... . I’m listening to SJ Tucker on my headphones that only play in the left ear. I want to bask in this feeling, write it down so that I can read

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  anything. But should it be? Hmmm... You have no idea how excited I was for ... Race for three years now. A short twelve-and-one-half months and I will ... until I can get home and watch the show in its full glory. Yeah, I really

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  , where we made a giant oven and cooked a giant pie in it. Kristen and I ... ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH3k_JgSyTg[/embed] We started planning this in November-ish. We went ... , going for a Guinness world record for largest/most pies (way too big

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  -jokingly-triumphant way because I had been uninterested in the project for a while, but felt ... , it feels like second nature. "I'll count for you." I put the swab in ... depression. Eleven. Since October 2017 I have not lived in a single place for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  More for Admitted Students What to do now if you've been admitted to MIT.

  

  register for CPW by Thursday, April 5, or when your travel plans are ... the Medical Release Form. Notes to the wise: if you're flying in, book ... transportation) of MIT -- driving and parking in Boston is not a good experience

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  find 3 formulas for them and then you will get an answer, if you are ... [by Ashley Nash '11] Before I got to MIT, in all of my classes, there ... opportunities in classes and in clubs. I am taking SP.747-Creative Imaging, a

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  yourself in a nice room and do nothing but work. That's my plan for the day ... This is it, finals are in two days. One of the things that scared me ... them (though that didn't really count because it was P/NR and I got an

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  is how it always goes for me. Something about a “young lady” in the ... in boston around 1am that could work, you'd just be in detroit for like ... in a space like an airport. Everything about that moment felt too open

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  the way in which I consumed media. For example, we'd look at The Batman ... ) This class is fantastic just in the fact that it's a free for all kind of ... Design for the Web (David Karger)** Poorly taught class in that it was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  I made an AI write most of this post because I forgot I needed to post this week

  

  idea for a blog post. Unfortunately, I'm in the mood to post about very ... what to wear. Reason #4: Grazing and rolling in the grass is an ... I didn't know what to write this week, so I made GPT-3 do it for me

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  nine email blast was an email from Vice President for Institute Affairs ... , and an MIT alum my mother is very thankful for: (What can I say? The ... chemistry professor and minor MIT celebrity for bringing in a glass of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Tips for the EA deferred send us your FUN form by February 15th

  

  advantage nor disadvantage for having been deferred in EA. I can't give you a ... On Thursday, December 15th, we released decisions for Early Action (EA) applicants. There was a definitive resolution for those students

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  , it doesn't hurt to prepare essays for other universities just in case ... In case you missed it, MIT EA decisions come out next Saturday. That's over a week for you to flail, refresh College Confidential repeatedly

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please Vote for My Idea for the Obama Administration! Change.org is sponsoring a competition whereby anyone can post an idea for making America better.…

  

  anyone can post an idea for making America better. The ten ideas that ... deadline for voting in the first round is December 31st. I'd greatly ... that I might pop back in every now and then if the occasion's right

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 19, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to send an official college transcript?

  an official transcript. An official transcript submitted during the application process will be recorded as "College Transcript" in our database. If you submit an unofficial college transcript, the information will be
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  science in an effort to document my journey through this twisty and windy ... -less experience even in my browsers, which has been...an absolute gamechanger. With ... I would never join. In addition to this, I've been making an effort

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020