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• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  class in MIT's programming sequence, which is also, in fact, not 6.0002. I ... ahead of my peers, so this came as a disappointment. I resolved to take 6 ... freshman credit limit prevented me from taking 6.0002 that fall. 6.0002 is

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  engineer in the family, and feels like a trailblazer. "I wanted to do ... ] Eletha Flores, 17, of Springdale who is graduating this year from Charles Herbert Flowers High School and the Class of 2006 valedictorian, is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  still be trying to figure out who your EC is so let's talk a bit about the ... contact information for your EC is to log in to your my.mit.edu account ... be some distance away. In a case like this it’s great if you are able

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  Choosing classes at MIT is like filling up a skill tree in a video ... ’t actually allow you to graduate in a year and a half. Although CourseRoad is ... ’s take that idea a step further – this next roadmap is a triple major in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  anxiety.   In Infinite Jest, which I’ve been reading with a group ... feel happiness or pleasure. It is described as a type of numbness, a numb ... probably not considered “enough” to be clinical) in which a person feels

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  So, about a month ago, I submitted my last exam for the year in ... , Chocolate City had a little celebration for our seniors in the New House ... academic experience. The following is a letter from the past. It was

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Forget that Or, "Why I won't be posting next week"

  

  On Tuesday night, Diana '08 baked a cake. Since she borrowed a bunch ... me a piece. Now, whenever you print something to one of the campus ... automatically prints what's called a "header page" before all of your stuff. This

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  , there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT Economics Professor Daron Acemoglu. The Clark Medal is awarded every two years to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Halloween, Part 2 Sometimes it's fun to be somebody you're not.

  

  costume. So, here I am as a duke: Note the plume in my hat. Hats with ... my friends in Senior Haus. Note the mural of Death (from Neil Gaiman's Sandman) in the background, which is one of my favorites, out of all the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 8, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  won season passes to Astroworld from a failing radio station back in my ... week, and he was filling in. So after grabbing a bite to eat at ... . So last Thursday, one of my friends, Shaye, who has a radio show on

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  friends in DC. Should be quite nice. I'll be blogging a bit less during this ... conclusion of a great semester. You've probably already heard about many of ... Jones. For me, I was happy to partake in the Lab for Chocolate Science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  and a number of faculty, staff, and alumni in work to promote personal ... secure a holding assignment while your application is reviewed). We will ... scheduled to move in while their building undergoes renovations, a cohort of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Wanting to Do Everything And Deciding What Parts of Everything I Can Do

  

  ’ve started to feel the weight of it a lot more recently. In some ways, I feel like I’ve aged enough in a year at MIT to have gray hairs coming out of ... Pset so I can go take photos of a dance performance in the student center

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  . Intro to French Culture is like a history class taught in French. It ... yourself up in your room trying to get a 100% in every one of the 16 AP ... 't too long ago that I was in your spot and- Wait a second. It actually

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  challenge in the weeks ahead is to ultimately select a school from the list of ... In June I'll be celebrating, along with my MIT classmates, a pretty ... our fate, in fact, everyone got a letter and you pretty much knew if you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  , a player in a perfect tragedy Vibrant prose dances sentences And dulls ... sits right in front of me? i am bored i am chewing on a mat, staring at ... material enough i can’t wait for the semester to end this course is too damn

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Regular Action Decisions: Saturday 3/14 We will post RA decisions online on Saturday at 2pm... or probably a minute before.

  

  locate you in our system and reset your password within a few days. What if ... ... actually, we’ll probably have decisions posted a minute before 2pm. What is the process for receiving my admissions decision? Receiving your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Southern California Fires Our thoughts go out to those affected by the wildfires.

  

  . I was happy to be able to help out. Now, as I watch from a hotel in ... As you've probably heard, Southern California is being devastated by wildfires. Half a million people have evacuated their homes, and more than

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  , marathon in the world. The race begins at 10AM in Hopkinton, a suburb of ... , as a described in that post, that it's possible to overtrain both body ... manageable. A lot of healing is out of your hands. It takes time and patience

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• 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.)

  

  .) In response to all of these comments, I'd like to deliver a poorly ... Mr. Antunez, a new teacher who had grown up in Spain and Argentina and ... I am every day. This is all a really long way of saying two things

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009