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• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  , let's just say that the day was spent in a weird state of being ... replied to any of her texts in the past 12 hours or so. In terms of communication, I've practically fallen off of the face of the planet. "You know

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  again. I spent the two whole weeks of break just complaining about ... promises in the beginning of the year that I have not kept. I said I would ... here and there, like the stray rodent of Loop kitchen that vacuums trash

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  incredible excited for a lot of these classes, but mostly just the prospect of ... instead of being cooped up in my room. But really the whole point of this ... people moved into the house and I've gotten to know a lot of people in it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  Towards the end of any semester, emails start flooding into our inboxes advertising last-minute events, study breaks (the best of which have ... semester, and I jumped at the chance of signing up (as did Chel R. ‘15, who

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  's pretty much the same then at this time of the year. Although I can ... .) Psets stand for Problem Sets, and they are the equivalent of the "homework ... . * They are comprised of mainly critical thinking problems, and the number

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  back in high school had emailed me out of the blue and offered to catch ... kids at the playground, and a trio of middle school boys in neon orange ... words, a quick laugh in the hallway. Having them notice you seems to be of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  I am graduating (at the time of this being posted, graduated), I ... I go to them every day, but some of the further away buildings and ... I guess I satisfied the “or two” part of this prompt. Ace a test ✅ I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  've been playing a lot of in the last two weeks is Slay the Spire, a ... deckbuilder, you'd draw cards from your deck at the beginning of your turn, have ... , and then all of the cards go to a discard pile. You add When the discard

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Women’s Week 2005 Learn about both the mission and events associated with this year's week-long promotion.

  

  's Women's Week. Check out the variety of events that are going on. Women ... incorporates and embraces the properties of intelligence, competence,and ambition ... to share ideas, air frustrations, and advance the leadership role of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  such bill working its way through both houses of the Congress right now ... Bill 968, the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) are corresponding versions of a bill ... latest battle in a war which began when the Internet began an age of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  bible of all the classes offered at MIT in the fall. personally, i've got ... for lack of better things to do. michael from 2E is part of the dev team ... for sure that i'll be using some of these sites in the next couple days

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  For a lot of you (maybe not all), interning over the summer will be ... to the "freedoms" of college life.  As exciting as these summer ... questions and plenty resources on campus to help you figure out the details of

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  - on both sides of the equation. I apologize to those of you who think ... . That makes me sad, but I can live with it, thanks to the rest of you ... . Thank you for saying that. At the end of my junior year of high school one

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  clear cool night, talking about life beneath the stars - a little piece of ... background, so I always have this feeling that I'm behind. One of the reasons I ... MIT, and it's inspiring. It gives me hope in a state of the world whose

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  don’t think majors matter,” I responded, with the overconfidence of any ... take the most of.” “That probably won’t work,” the teacher said. I ... student here knew the name of every course.  He said, “What’s that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  needed to do were to buy a map, enlist the help of a local, and marry Amber ... the fudge, the fat young man ahead of us in line noted that it was ... fudge without a knife. Indeed, the power is ours! Of course, if my UROP

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  officer in the month of April, naturally, I was at still at work. I was ... for a living. And yes, turning down applications is a huge part of the job. However, when I think of the colleagues I work with on a daily

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  defined by its discontinuities. The first half of the year was spent trying not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The second half of the year I was thrust into a new, thriving, churning

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  With several of the core General Institute Requirements out of the way, sophomore year was really the dawn of my computer science life at ... ’t help but feel the creeping approach of “not-enough"ness. As career fair

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  adjacent to beauty, but beauty does not give others the feeling of an elastic ... about the kind of beauty that arose from symmetry, from clear skin or a ... ’s overused, I think, to the point of meaninglessness. I don’t want my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022