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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  in our year, except Happy by Pharrell Williams, which is an inherently ... Jepsen just had a large impact on everyone's psyche in elementary school. I ... 've gotten Chris into a few of her songs, namely Want You In My Room

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  was a year of deduction. This is a pretty normal time in most people ... -did-it-because-I-can't-live-without-it" mindset.  I feel a lack of satisfaction, of vindication, in my life choices ... every pset is a day wasted when I could be doing something greater. This

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  're probably nervous, which is normal. No one is certain they'll get in. That's a ... the admissions decision. That's a fact also. In the publishing industry ... , here is a list of Themed Online Distractors for MIT Decision Day: Pre

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of ... lot of the material covered in 6.046 is dense, very fast-paced, and often inter-connected. At first, I was a bit worried about how I’d fare in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  unusual in that it’s mainly a notation convention, which is kinda fun. 7 ... intersection of their everyday language and mathematical jargon is non-empty. In other words, MIT is overrun with math people who cannot help but speak in

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  's lingered in my mind a lot lately is from Everything Everywhere All at Once ... I competed in a lot of robotics competitions throughout high school ... autonomous mode for our robot was a pain in the ass. It was all about

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  build the Beta processor. Yeah, a processor, like you'd find in a computer ... . There had been more TAs for a while, but in 004 they tend to leave shortly ... hours without a break) I zephyred Kevin '06, a good friend who is a TA for

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  32-141, so maybe this is a fitting end. Last shower in shallow Walcott ... , because honestly, some of them are so mundane that I'll forget them in a few ... sleeping in my room: Saturday night, 11/21. This room is the first space that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  'm asking is how do i put my passion down on paper and my capability in a ... that wanting to major in a STEM field is not a requirement to attend MIT ... , citing a lack of interviewers in my region. Will this adversely affect my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  Of all the numerous documents bestowed upon prefrosh checking in for Campus Preview Weekend, none is more important than the CPW booklet, a 96 ... weekend; it is the intangible element that makes CPW so much more than a

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  already be familiar with my experience of choosing a major. In summary, I ... thing is that it's been somewhat inflexible in terms of course ... -1) would be amended in a way that gives several options in places where there

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  bottom of a sigh, when you can feel some structure in your chest actively ... , though, is a precious commodity, and I’d like not to squander it, now that ... ’m disappointed in myself. It’s a familiar feeling. That sensation when you

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  ) understand the material is okay, especially in a class like 004 or most high ... 's a good question! The answer is that, for 6.004, you have to write your ... in this together" feel - this is one of the least cutthroat places I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  's left from last semester is a bunch of pictures that I'm about to share ... documenting, so I took a bunch of pictures. And now I'm able to show you just ... (known as reading period, which is when we're given a couple of days off to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  hike and bike and UROP. I'm resolving to document my life offline a little better. I recently got a phone with a camera that is actually pretty ... ! Nisha wrote in her end-of-year post: I think that I’ve commandeered a boat

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  building because of a potential fire. At 5 in the morning, it is freezing ... to put my stuff in her dorm.Here is the view from her dorm:And this is ... , which proved to be highly entertaining. The first act was a group of

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  that it is really only one part of your application, and that in a few ... now, which is probably better for me since I've taken a lot of chemistry ... with classes every day at 3, which is great because I don't learn well in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  up buying at the store. Ice cream is a catalyst for productivity ... was a joke. The following series of images is a visual journey through ... posters, however, is always quickly replaced with a wistful "Why didn't I

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  planning in some way, and this one was conducive to that (since planning is a ... human interactions in the built environment and data as a change agent. By ... themes appear in some way here. We know you lead a busy life, full of

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  pictures can you fit in a blog post?” The answer, it turns out, is a lot! I ... rest of this post is by someone who, in addition to being an in general ... is a masterpiece. If you have the Internet for it, I strongly encourage

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016