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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  commenters and my occasional check-in to bemoan your exponential progress or ... typically often used as a verb. It refers to an action or a series of actions ... Saw Franchise to baking cookies to video games—and in my case, to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  now, and it's traditional for people in my living group, floorpi, to ... die. i'm literally writing this in public trying my best not to cry ... people who helped write, and they've all been talking to me and asking me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  alumni club living in the Charles River in an effort to convert MIT students to the "Way of the Beaver," a doctrine created by MIT students in ... with their teeth to construct dams in the river. They have been known to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  other than maybe keeping a list of to-dos in Google Keep, or my ... made no effort to organize things into categories or prioritize or ... fun things to do, getting ahead on your classes - or taking

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  I was in lab on June 9. Welcome to graduate school! (I actually chose ... one educational institution in my life. I went to 2 different elementary ... that are still fond to your heart in order to move forward. So with that

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  options remaining, I cluelessly applied to colleges. Being the first in my ... turned out to have everything I was looking for: in addition to the awesome ... , was female. In addition to discovering my stereotypes to be false, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  just wanted to talk to my mom about putting me in a gifted program ... volunteered to help out the following year. (You know how it is, when you're in ... , neither of which are actually related to math itself. Or maybe it was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  akin to “thou” and “wherefore art”, except I’m not even that fluent in ... forward to reading my first-ever complete(ish) novel in Chinese (starting ... really challenged in a completely different way (excited to be scared

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Transfer Decisions Will Be Sent Today see title, more or less

  

  applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed ... traffic in the tubes. Our transfer admissions process was quite competitive. As in past years, hundreds of students applied, and we only had space

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You’re Still Our No.1 :) less than 2 days left!

  

  whether I failed or passed. But I just know that I tried my hardest to fill ... QUOTE(S): "If I have kids, I'm going to name the first one "Control ... !) --- While we are on the subject of speeches - for all to-be valedictorians

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 12, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  and my voice. I decided to make the three posts different in some ways ... frequency of my blogs. I do not have to force-write posts if I am in a writer ... In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.  In the summer of 2022, I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  poster) 4.140 OR 2.008, not both — 4.140 is harder to get in to, harder ... get in to the Diaz class, and drop Sustainable Energy or whatever else ... of them. But I’m extremely averse to dropping classes later on in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Registration Browser Issues Firefox isn't playing nicely with MyMIT...

  

  is blank, you'll need to re-register using Safari or Internet Explorer ... , which is likely why some of you have been having problems. We'll get to the bottom of that asap, but in the meantime, if you've already

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2007
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT offer club sports?

  have numerous accomplishments and aim to help each student improve in ... either instructional or competition focused by nature. Many of the ... competitions, and some clubs have sent athletes to compete on the international
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of ... in the deep pool! But alas. Covid struck before I got to take one final ... was able to find a place to stay in Tang Hall, a grad residence right

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  I go outside and trudge through snow or suffer in freezing cold, when ... ago. I tried to reproduce the first picture in the post I linked. But ... Last week I saw someone screencap my blog post and post it on /r/ApplyingTo

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dell-icious. MIT students and the Dell Social Innovation Competition

  

  's not common, at least in India, to find several NGOs to be working in the ... , asking me to take a moment to vote for the idea that she and Divya '13 came up with and entered in the Dell Social Innovation Competition. Earlier

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Ultimate Showdown Making important college purchase #1

  

  primary mode of computing my freshman year kept me in my room to do work ... 're about to head off to college, and you're thinking to yourself, do I need a laptop or a desktop? I too faced the same question 3 years ago, and thus

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  want to work on in the future to make your writing better." Issues I ... you are doing badly in the class or anything - it is just that it would ... professor. As a result, I wasn’t able to present the material in a way that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  potential wedding dresses. She recently got engaged to her boyfriend on their ... three years; we broke up this past January. Even though I'm still young in the grand scheme of things, it felt odd to see a couple that had met

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022