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• Blog / Challenges

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  many "failures" served as catalysts for personal growth. In the wake of ... 50 revisions" means. I know I spent some time using the agenda for its ... maintenance on the text. My agenda created plenty of opportunities for me to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  we really wanted was the big shiny silver trophy you get for being the ... bid to the D3 NCAA tournament, which is the national tournament. We ... became a conscious idea in my mind. It is almost absurd to think that the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  was refreshing, and I’d been staring at my computer for the last… well ... midterm exams so far this semester - and at least one per week for the last ... , overlap each other, blot out the sun, and consume my entire life for a few

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at ... starting out with separate artstagrams but may in the near future make a twinstagram lol We're bad at goodbye's so, for realsies now, bye!

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  , unexpected happinesses. The biggest happiness of all is that for every person ... weighed my options, called my mom, and dropped the class. For the past two ... time. You say, and stare at the ceiling for another ten minutes, singing

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  . The best thing about the robes is that I've kept them after game end ... for the Game Lab, which is so cool to me. Dream job TBH. Related to ... One of MIT's oldest student groups is the Assassins Guild. We're the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  reason I write for the admissions blogs is because I really like the ... I have finally made it home for the holidays. Let me tell you, there's nothing quite like being at home, even if it is just for two weeks, and even

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers ... common area for the night. However, common areas on campus and in labs are ... the morning, whenever morning is. iCal, Google Calendar, or another

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  , and really the best I can do is to just take things one by one and not ... is not a substitute for professional advice. --- Every day we wake up ... hellish year for me got buried under the structure and responsibilities of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  alone productive. The best thing you can do is take the weight of waiting ... talked about humanity as a perk; that is, the admissions office has high ... is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  “single story”, a single perspective on an issue. For China, the frame is ... can repeatedly land on a perch, the way birds do, and he is fascinated by the way passive mechanisms allow us to move about. For example, this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  began what is easily the most demanding of days I have lived through. What ... of the people. And this very long never-ending day is a testimony to ... the impact COVID-19 is having on communities is unimaginable, but I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  working harder for the sake of it seemed stupid (and I still agree it is ... Webster's dictionary has two entries for the word smashing when used ... :   It's good for you   You see, in the many conversations I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  MIT is like, the good and the bad. Give comfort and advice about your ... reality is that we as bloggers cannot connect with the decision that you may ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a

  • by Phi A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... .g., the admit rate is now 9.6% instead of 13%). This post will not be as eloquent as Ben's, but is certainly in the same vein - and is every bit as

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  entrance exam is required for admission. The exams are held in Boston, of ... been waiting for! This is the first catalog we've seen with explicit ... today as the namesake for Lobdell Dining Hall. Lobdell is better known as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run ... could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various ... before her decision!"]enough,[/annotation]and they were, for the day of. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... Hackathon (or ATHack for short). The goal of ATHack was to pair teams of MIT ... gathering the materials we would need to build the framework for our walking

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  for our living spaces, and 2. the free art is REALLY GOOD. the program is called SLAP, which stands for the student lending art program, and i suspect they chose the name at least partially for the sake of an amusing

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  them, but that's not the point. Well, actually, it kind of is the point. Whatever. Okay - this is the part where we get into the cheesy, reflective ... God that the snow at the bottom of the hill is soft (it wasn't. The real

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008