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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  algebra” or “…and then I’m sure you guys can do the algebra, so in the end ... school. In fact, (a brief tangent) I’ve always disliked it when college ... . What I mean is, if, hypothetically speaking, everyone in a class got an A

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  future. 2. when sapphics say love is in the air when i am with you,  we ...   i want to weave the threads of cloud  into an infinity scarf that can ... away, where  to come out is to stay in  your arms   i want my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2023 i3 videos megapost

  

   (alongside tours!). I’ve embedded all the 2023 i3 videos below in case you would ... Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  knows a Simon). But I can relate to him in the moment that he sings "We ... ethnicities, none of which has a prominent role in my psyche. I enjoyed or didn't enjoy the grade schools I was in to varying degrees, but I never felt

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  . I most definitely can't study in my room or anywhere close to my bed. I also can't focus if I'm studying with friends. I do message out in ... once its over, I can relax! I like to study in Pomodoro blocks, taking

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  AP Computer Science, i didn’t do any coding in high school ... dancing alone in my room in 30-second spurts whenever i wanted, but now i’ve come to really enjoy it. i can’t wait for our first performance!   

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  purpose. Oh well. I am, by the way, the one in the front row middle of the ... the brightest white legs, and that's me. Hey, I work in a lab all summer ... cheerleading can be found here -- it's a better picture mostly because I'm doing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  found this bookstore before I left MIT. In addition to a large fiction ... can't believe I haven't been to before. Nicole, I owe you so much for ... in Boston, conveniently 4 stops down on the red line from MIT, that

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  active in.  (I learned to fly pre-MIT and probably won't have much time to fly until post-MIT - in the meanwhile, I'm mostly spending my time taking advantage of opportunities I didn't have at home ^_^)  In any case

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  beads in an empty soda can. I wish I could tell you what he/she/it looked ... , TX to Boston, MA. As the old joke goes: "I just flew in from El Paso ... like Tiger on the links in Tucson. I now understand desert rules for golf

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  windshield wipers off. I felt a nervousness I hadn't felt in the weeks prior ... rolled around, I didn't tell anyone. In fact, I was in a hotel room ... can only accept so many students in December. The Admissions Office

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  this statement can be true when i rarely blog in the first place... oops ... When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first questions was about why I wanted to be a blogger in the first place. Amidst

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  I noticed that I would be in town for [annotation note ... asking if they can search us. Confused, I said yes as one of the workers ... next day I visited Old Town Alexandria, which is slightly Boston-core in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  and Society in America (which I really love) - and thinking about ... care of sick students in my hall and at MIT in general, which I'm really ... lobster almost every night (which I didn't partake in, but I heard was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  percolates through the autumn leaves in the Yard. I’m listening to Stevie ... double check myself every time I speak in this class. It’s a new experience ... this reason. I listen to Stevie Wonder’s “Visions” and “All in Love is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  Jonathan. I joined the department as a postdoc last year. I'm interested in ... . [annotation note="Fatima: I took Seminar in Topology last semester with Jonathan!"][/annotation] (let's call them) Z: I'm a recent MIT alum who majored in 18, and now in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  further until I was eventually in the deep end. When I jumped in, I remember ... forth underneath me while I tried to propel myself up. Keep in mind that ... that we’re learning in class. Here, I took two midterms last week, and a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  violence during my first year of high school? Can I write an essay about how ... that was a 15-minute drive from the house I grew up in (where I was ... high school visit, I got in my car and cried. I cried not only because

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  for them in what little free time I had. It was my most stressful high ... —balance, time-management, something. In my first few weeks here, I got a fair ... quadrupled in the space of no time, and I felt that I really needed a lot more

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  as early as you can! But since I was in such a time crunch, I printed ... guide to preparing (or at least a guide to how I prepare) in the hope that ... national assessments. The first SAT test I took was in 7th grade--I don

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015