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• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  in a couple days, after this eight-week vacation. For now I’m wandering ... for new experiences, which seemed to be cropping up everywhere on the ... high school, and definitely not in the workforce, but not quite a college

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

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  wrote my mom a poem for Mother's Day and I only made a phone call. She ... deleting this dud of a post because I had left it unpublished for a month ... through, for reals. Maybe it was because the Orpheum has arranged seating

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  job??? The latter of which actively have a hard deadline??? But then ... [annotation note="For a year, we lived a 4.5 minute bike ride away from each ... California. For the first few months, I was flying back and forth to the East

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  , the SAT is good for something after all! Just as a side note, both of ... -presidents of math club for 9th, 10th, and 12th grade. Part of the club was a ... counselors from top tier schools gave a panel discussion about the college

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  blog comments about it in the last month, so I figured it was a hot topic ... the obvious need for exhaustive testing and the nature of the admissions ... I am excited to let you know that things are looking fairly good for

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  11,231 Applications

  

  committee). While the article (as Ben has pointed out) contains a number of ... competitive year for MIT admissions. Between the early and regular action ... to find room for all of the many, many terrific applicants. But it also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  [context for the non-MIT folks out there: a pset, or problem set, is ... force me to have a much deeper understanding of the material. Yes, you ... manipulated and combined with another equation in such a way that the entire

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  students struggling to graduate on time for the dumbest possible reasons ... 't spread them out, realizing they forgot about the swim requirement a day ... 't count toward the requirement they thought it did. One alum I worked for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  Institute has far exceeded my expectations for social involvement, and in the ... reading books about the topic out loud. One such book was a compilation of ... for Valentine’s Day, we watched a documentary for more on nuclear

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  called in for a little help. Enter the DAO (Director of Ambulance ... a driver's ed student once again and for the second time in my life ... remembered how to navigate a vehicle on a road. The two hours flew by, and the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  most music classes or to be a part of the music program. For more ... music activity at MIT in the music community are encouraged to submit a ... from a Music teacher attached in pdf format. In the body of the email

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Take Your Blog to School Day Vol. 1 Standing waves and FIRE!

  

  So today we're going to take a little trip to 3-370 for some Measurement and Instrumentation. Basically, this is a lab class where we learn ... have a 40 page paper to write, but such is life. The class is also an

  • by Bryan
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  to become a part of. This was the long and short of the story, but for ... blogpost was written during a pre-CPW event hosted for prefrosh! (The event ... CJ historian but for the history of myself throughout the years, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  ; 1. “The sky is the limit” - Mom Since I was a very little Gabe, my ... think its a good way to start, but there's no substitute for just going ... feels like I’ve brushed off a lot of your questions about the Trail. If

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  friend. For the next two years, I continued to be a BME major and swore I ... a textbook we're all forced to read for class, were in fact monumentous and grand and large. All it took for us to understand that was a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says ‘Morning, boys. How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then ... In his 2005 commencement address to the graduates and assembled

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  i’ve known for a while that i’m a pretty awful conversationalist. my ... ask me questions i often pause for a while to think before giving a badly formed answer. for the longest time i wondered if this was because i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  So a couple days ago, frustrated as I was by the fact that I wasn ... wander through the videos on my computer. I'm sharing a particularly choice ... other extracurricular stuff, ahhh. I wish there were a pause button for

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  being in the area for four whole years??? but i'm excited to have a reason ... in the recipient, cut the donor until all that's left is a square piece ... friendships. but being a full-time lab rat as a coping mechanism comes at the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  A Continuing Experiment in Cooperative Eating or, every food picture I have ever posted from pika

  

  's meal, all made here, by us, with friends. (See our calendar for the rest ... The streets are paved with slush, everything is cold, and my pajamas ... , strange instrument concerts, and sitting in a dark room listening to music

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 3, 2015