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• Blog / Challenges

  i miss home and what MIT feels like as exam season picks up

  

  I took my first exam last week. And in my two semesters' worth of experience, the first exam marks the start of the end. Prior to the first exam: You only have psets to worry about - which in and of itself is a lot but

  • by Hala K. '29
  • October 12, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  note="The spelling of this word is a complex thing. There's a chicken ... definition of any sea song"]Chanties[/annotation] for the last third of class ... to.  The Golden Age of Piracy was from 1650-1739, and the Chanties as

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  is a somewhat privileged position to be in (and given some of those ... version of this class, [annotation note="Writing and Experience: Reading and ... had never learned about this form of writing structurally, and man was

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  (The subtitle is from my unpatented and unholy mix of the songs ... alone and spent a lot of time with myself, and as others have mentioned, in classic MIT student tradition, I crammed a year’s worth of self

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  sign of concern; that they care about you enough to both remember what you've looked like before and inform you of the change now. Another ... and bones", which is viewed as a sign of malnourishment. To eat food and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  work in admissions last July, and by mid-July I was part of the team to ... me. – Felix"]new crop of bloggers.[/annotation] As I was combing ... note="more like sporadic brain dump of sounds but follow me on Spotify

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  was supposed to be may 31, but because of the situation, we could (again ... hear that, after two weeks of uncertainty over where i was going to stay ... frozen is one of the films i can remember the animation well enough to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  and acknowledge yourself and your growth, say goodbye to this stage of ... school reflect these qualities. Some of them are already in your ... have to be academic. It might be more interesting if some of them aren

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  those of you who have procrastinated and have not yet submitted your application, here are a few tips, notes, and words of wisdom: Submit ... in advance of the deadline. Most people's problems at the deadline

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  content warning: extended discussion of anxiety, depression, suicide ... 's part of the job description. if he doesn't do it, then he's not doing his ... 're already be— cj: okay, shut up. the two of you, shut up. dan: … alan

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  my class tier list, some stats, and my four-year roadmap of classes ... to have some semblance of structure, I loosely based my ranking off of ... /II Accelerated (18.01A/18.02A) → Rank B This class was an accelerated version of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  post of his own about his time on the team, so now we’re bringing it full ... competition series. Our team consists of around 80 people now, divided into ... , which means I am responsible for what I like to call “the soul of the car

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bloggers Wrapped 2019 aka i harvest everybodys data, my favorite pastime

  

  It's my favorite time of year for a variety of reasons. My birthday ... RELEASES SPOTIFY WRAPPED!!! For those of you who've been following the blogs ... things that are just cool to know. So of course, I begged Abby if I could

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  want to keep any of you waiting longer than others (also the reason why ... find answers to an overwhelming majority of your questions, including ... components (including a variety of different posts on writing essays and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  It's June! Which means of course you're not interested in the ... [annotation note="yes I am always lurking"]r/mit,[/annotation] all of the ... , what I think is more important is how they answered--instead of answering

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  League of First Robotics, then you’ve taken part in a piece of MIT history ... of 2.007. This class is like the origin of everything engineering that ... munchkin land, a train that goes to Oz, and a giant Oz head in the middle of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  across an animated short of a lady making bread. I probably watched the ... before finally learning that the creator of the short was a first ... ="🤷"]something?[/annotation] A month passed and I still hadn’t thought of the idea but, as it

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  ; *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... Action deadline of November 1! I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the common deadline-time questions. There are many answers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  have a Brass Rat. I've completed most of the "book" classes and am about ... of the semester than the beginning), and 2.004 was just, well there ... weeks after CPW (a time of partying and non-studying), and a week after my

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  of both the marching band and the modern football team. Looking through ... /kimfad/Public/rightsize/MarchingBand/newspaperarticle.pdf">fascinating piece of history</a> from 1978, we see on page 12 that "the band ... , gimme an A, gimme an S...' cheer," which is a personal favorite of mine

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008