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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at ... of miles away from family and friends and not really in a place to make ... . Especially this letter. Trying to craft these sentences in a lighter tone feels

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  find the second sentence to be a lot more "down-to-earth." The simple ... a lot in my peers back in the day when we were all applying to college ... " by trying to use all of these advanced vocabulary in their essays. Not

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  , meaning that I was able to start math "a year" ahead in differential ... how to study on your own in the absence of a teacher or curriculum ... Head over to /r/confession and you'll find this post lurking near the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  , who has taken her place. Dog 2 sheds a lot, so it's best not to keep him ... Dog 2 even though they used to live together) eats Dog 1's food, Dog 2 ... , Dog 3 only wants to eat food that a human is holding even though she

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... push boundaries, to improve the world. There isn't a day that goes by in ... to be a sounding board and copilot in those years. Matt and I also

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  getting in, reducing getting into MIT to a coin flip. On the ride home, I ... drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  used to be a subject only juniors took. Course 20, today Biological ... German". In particular, all undergraduates needed to present a thesis of ... to correspond to 48 hours a week, and in practice corresponds to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college ... need to think about work/life balance in high school because they had ... non-actor-non-dancer-non-runner like me i just find a bit of solace

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

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

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

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -height octagonal prism that is soon to be a waterfall of wooden blocks. Meanwhile in ... .” Behind the caution tape two people are having a heart-to-heart in the dip ... second time, which is what I used to call editing) was a new kind of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  ten reflections on mit

  

  time to sit back and reflect and then put it all into words in a way that ... questions in education are to me. I’m still in a cappella. I still really like ... within a mile of MIT. And while there’s much more to explore (down in

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the ... didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is ... air-quoting so hard I might sprain a knuckle) in their admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  officers. take a moment, remind yourself to take a moment to find yourself ... relate to a different thing from college admissions. but there are points ... find negative emotions during this time in your life. i remember

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  some balance to the conversation. I remembered a guest post I wrote a ... was actually in response to an admitted student who was deciding whether ... environment!). (Btw, I find it funny that in Ben's original post, he wrote

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my ... thin that you can no longer contribute in a significant way to any group ... tendencies – liking to play a role in deciding how things progress, and are run

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  wave and a corral. I'm wave 4, corral 4. It used to bother me that we ... I decided I wanted to make a Twitter bot for my final project in CMS ... and Rahul and Nathan and Erhardt in Civic to launch a crowdfunding

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from ... tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... in 15 students at MIT came from a foreign country, possibly the highest

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  school, that I'd wake up in a dorm in this school, I'd go to class and ... a year ago might've talked to different people in the companies he was ... development, and how to shoot things and hit them. I've learned how to use a

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

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of ... birth to a son blah refrigerator blah blah i think i will have to write in the haiku log combinatorics the haikubot is a workaround to post in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  . To begin the cringe, the video opens with two students in a lab. They ... gender bias) and use our institutional power to actively resist using AI in ... in their room. This is funny because this continues to be a common

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020