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• Blog / Challenges

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  to a place enough times, all your visits start to blur together. This ... halfway through a botched sophomore fall to receive treatment for clinical ... “typical” four-year timespan. 16% works out to a little less than 1/6 of the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  or control theory prior to taking the class, but 6.832 helped me find a ... Right before school started, I sent out a survey to all the dorms ... a new skill relevant to their intended career or major, was relevant

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  desperate to find a home again.  My therapist told me, last semester, that my ... .  Maybe, this is a better way to explain it: I am still trying to live up to ... will come as a relief to you. A realization of a goal you’ve had for half

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  follow the same logic to find that the system in three variables has a ... a Wonder Woman power pose. On the way from the bathroom to the classroom I passed a girl from among my soon-to-be audience. We made eye

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... since my freshman year, and I just asked Grace to take a photo of her list ... tremendously at MIT kept a regular 10 PM to 7 AM sleeping schedule all four years

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT ... of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing various aspects that I've come to gain a better understanding of after my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  malalapitan; here I am, drenched from the rain, nowhere to find shade, no one to ... you, you're stuck in a Catch-22. Because no one wants to help when you ... the hurricane will herald a turbulent fall semester to come. https

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... Chris Peterson launched a project to highlight MIT's committment to ... the MIT Archives. A special thanks to the Archives staff! MIDDLE EAST

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  received a notification. We sprinted together down the hallway to 10 ... , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10 ... using cool tools given to us in weekly goodie bags, such as a spectrometer

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  fly. This is a place that is very conducive to taking these passions ... . To begin the cringe, the video opens with two students in a lab. They ... . Remembering that parents are watching, the focus changes to a short segment on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  textbook: "It is not at all unusual to find that the adjustment of a single ... MIT's history is a topic that's become increasingly interesting to me ... started looking into the course catalogs because I wanted to find out how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge ... state of your paper. 3) you get a week to submit a rebuttal to address ... options were 1) submit a rebuttal to this conference, 2) withdraw from this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  take a step, expecting there to be more staircase, when there’s nothing but air? And then you kinda have to wobble for a bit before you lower ... . If this was a movie, this would be the cue for me to cry. And with the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  , my auntie wanted me to take a nap. She said, “if you don’t go to sleep ... are Habesha”. “Habesha” is a term that refers to the ethnic group of ... was a lovely phrase, and would often repeat it to myself, saying “we are

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  .  We had a snow day and when I called my grandmother to tell her, she ... quit for a few hours after decisions came out, and had to wait about 90 ... ’t even check that morning since my friends and I were going to a math

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  the projects I liked. I like to think of myself as a reflective person ... filling out a form every day, there's probably some way to solve it with ... didn't like. It's a similar motivation to when I made just1 a few months

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like ... sent out a survey to the bloggers, asking them what their results were ... results. It turned out, there was a lot people had to say--about their

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to ... direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of ... something with a pile of Legos that seemed to reach my knees. Knowing no one, I joined an upperclassman who invited me to help her make a duct tape

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a ... like to mention that there is a writing requirement here at MIT. To some ... this way. My son has a pile of graduation thank you notes to write and I

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011