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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  ? the you is directed at certain people in my life and instead of writing ... am well down the path of healing, four years later. there's a part of ... always said. losing my friends was honestly one of the worst pains i

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  the mud so concerned about right and wrong The giver of permission ... the echoes murmur louder Get up and fight me Are you afraid of your own ... long looking for the light at the end of the tunnel   water you

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  just kind of shut down and didn't do anything productive for the next 96 ... , post-6.046 exam. I know that before I came to MIT, my impression of the ... fell asleep. As a rule of thumb, I'm generally always the first person to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freedom isn’t free. ...but a biology minor is, sometimes.

  

  -mail from Maxine, president of MIT's chapter of the American Institute of ... always the best part... how about the milk vending machine in the basement of building 2?" "I don't know, I dont think milk vending machines are

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  factor might be that the presence of other people forces me to think at a higher level of rigor than i’m used to the other day i called a stranger ... math problems, but none of these are actually indicative of the kind of

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

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  elsewhere. For me, this is one of the most important blog posts I've ever ... amazing, it is amazing not because of some occult magick embedded in the ... comfort at the time, and it's one of the things that got me to continue

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  of their six classes; something I agreed to in the name of optimistic ... subset of my actual experience. I had pictured all the moments of triumph over hard things and meeting some of the world’s most interesting people

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  's happening, but it's certainly an experience. I am cut off from the passion of ... be warned; there are many stories and not all of the stories are about ... before, but this is a writing classic. It's 99 retellings of the same story

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  [/caption] Monday: I woke up with cramps. On top of my 3-week old ankle sprain, the ... .0002[/annotation] pset and turned it in without passing all of the tests. The thing is, I really liked the content of the class, but [annotation note

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  diagrams I can point to. The panel of jurors judging our architecture studio ... ’ve stopped taking in the words that are coming out of my mouth. Before I knew ... professor, the one who has seen the promise and struggles of your project

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  question, as if I’d never snapped out of the trance of college apps, and one of the most common ones I noticed was “what are your hobbies?” But ... a sense of identity. Despite what the title of this post implies

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  looking through pictures of the past year, from fancy formal pictures to pictures of derping around with friends. I re-listened to the songs we PSetted and danced to. I thought of the bajillion people I met at MIT and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  More For Deferred Students FAQ and advice.

  

  , regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little historical data ... . 1), RPI (Jan. 15), and the University of Chicago (Jan. 2). For those ... midyear grade report. You can download one off of the MyMIT website if you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  lies ahead for St. Joseph Academy senior Daniel Guillen is one of the ... to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which is located in ... well. "I feel this is a great opportunity and not just because of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  I started writing a brief response to some of the comments on Chris ... Calc. Over the course of the year, a disturbing cycle emerged. We'd have a few ... thereof are not my friend right now.) And at the start of the first class

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  making fools of themselves for the camera. ... September. I miss my insanely sunny old room, but so far the move seems worth ... they don't have to. -Starting classes. By the way, getting up at 8

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  . Basically, the project was designed to have us develop some type of scientific ... first trick: Experiment #1: Testing the acceleration of a mountain bike ... intelligent conclusions. In the words of the late Aaliyah, "If at first you don

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Will I receive AP/IB college credit?

  Standing Exam (ASE) to test out of it. It's essentially like sitting the ... is commonly available in high school. However, many of our students ... coursework through programs like the AP, IB, PSEO, EPGY, and many more alphabet
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  living in the middle of the woods anymore. You have no clue what you ... sliver of the moon in your eyes?”. Aw, that’s pretty cute. Maybe it’ll be a ... write it down: When did you get a sliver of the moon in your eyes? It

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  studio just wasn't something in the realm of possibility for me, so using ... years later, I started learning dances from the choreography videos of ... playlists are a tangible representation of all the dancing I've done

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021