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• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  ever take a class that inspires one of these lists? things I could ... ! fanfic. in other words, I was incredibly unpopular in middle school ... and confusing, a deadly combination. in fact, I was so stressed about

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  St. George’s Day England's National Day

  

  entry on 23rd April but I'm in the middle of exams. Very stressful. More ... of us in the comments below. Anyway, I was pretty curious to see what ... , Wednesday 23 April and has a picture of a knight on a horse. I was with

  • by Cambridge
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  any of you guys know whether I can send my mid-year report (since it ... AP's are not the only way in which to challenge oneself. (I can ... greater understanding of science than what my grades show. In all sciences I

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  running around out of control, so I figured I'd put it in an entry by itself ... that advice. I do it myself sometimes, usually when I'm in a terrible ... , some of what ends up being said is tongue-in-cheek, but the implications

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  accepted to MIT Media Lab, the place that I was dreaming of in high school ... I did here and here, as proof of what I usually say on Pi Day: If you ... admissions, then all I can remind you is that success is not always a straight

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  , because I really hate embarrassing myself in front of him. I get scared when ... interview. In fact, the week of the interview, I begged S Cubed to let me take ... I wanted to go into CS. I wanted to be in CS to remind engineers of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  % pure silk” scarves as gifts. However, I was skeptical of these scarves as ... they want. I was convinced that these scarves were made of some ... [/annotation]. I couldn’t possibly do that! Damaging the scarves in any way was out

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  taking advantage of opportunities I didn't have at home ^_^)  In any case ... You may have heard of the MIT Flying Club, which I'm not actually active in.  (I learned to fly pre-MIT and probably won't have much time to

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• 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 ... can be pretty exciting as well—I spent most of break flip ... Lydia here: some of my favorite things I’ve learned at MIT, from my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2023 i3 videos megapost

  

  and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these ...  (alongside tours!). I’ve embedded all the 2023 i3 videos below in case you would ... As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  the end of summer; one day, I was sitting in the office casually ... three pillowcase-less pillows. I can't remember the last time I just sat ... after cup of tea, then suddenly it was the day of my presentation and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  didn’t die! I sped down Mass Ave, which can be congested enough in a car ... , and planned that it would take about a third of the hours it did, so I ... Fest, organized by Madhouse Motors every spring. I’d heard of it from

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Think Happy Thoughts D-Lab Memories >> Graphing With Matlab

  

  understands how I feel about being stuck in an Athena cluster generating graphs ... so he brings back some amazing memories of the trip I got to take last ... this point, but maybe later I can tell you more about Honduras (There

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  /250/600. * I get lots of questions along the lines of, "In my country ... admitted each year. In each of the past few years, greater than 2000 ... experiences and countries. You can get a sense of our current international (and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  fluttering diaphragm in the heart of a speaker. Speaking of molecules, I ... the semester progresses. What I CAN say is that every particle in every ... patch of repulsive material as the particles in my fingertips. And that I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  could use that knowledge for. In terms of advising, I think I was right ... here's why", and who can give me the perspective of life after college. I ... selections, so that you can introduce yourself, get acquainted, and check in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  information I can ask students and faculty in the graduate programs to which I ... of glad I'm interviewing for graduate programs this year while writing the blog, because I get to impart all kinds of advice from an almost

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  " section of my entry, I can see media uploads here in Wordpress from Chris Su ... not know me at all because I wrote blogs back in the dark ages of 2008 ... energy in the tank. Because I'm dumb. This was one of the first ever super

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  After I finish my M.Eng (Master's of Engineering) thesis in the ... , and otherwise fulfill me. So far, I've met a *ton* of companies. I can ... polished in interviews, now that I've experienced enough of them to have an

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  representation of MacGregor life. Except for the part where I'm in the bathroom not ... TechCash. By which I mean your parents can pay for it. MacGregor also ... (because i is imaginary! Bada-bing). As you can see from the picture at the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006