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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  History textbook The American Pageant, and my friend Davie ('12) is sitting ... , waiting for the blogger application to appear. I knew that one of the ... wanted that job for a long time. 2. How I blog - the writing and posting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  homework again and study for exams or work on projects. Some of the best ... , sometimes I think I won’t ever eat again for three days (which is obviously ... saw regularly for the rest of the semester, and into IAP. Externally

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  order.) 1. The students This one is a no-brainer. Thanks to the ... dorms are by the Charles River and in Baker, for example, 80% of rooms ... Boston. For more about the community service and fun opportunities in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  equilibria, I guess? For those unfamiliar with the concept of dynamic ... thermodynamics: everything is in flux, and the forces of progression and regression ... moment, promising prospects, but still little that is concrete. In the post

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  halloween down the infinite

  

  get to classes and things happen along the corridor! which is why i ... the day someone dressed up as a corona beer who was too far away for ... application is probably one of the spookiest things you will do in your life and

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  I just said is a horrible lie. Here’s the truth: I have never taken ... MIT and Caltech were far too nerdy for me, since the ultra-geek culture ... ’t completely true; some students only had two of the three. But, for some

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  college ends. So, buwis-buhay. The word buwis is Tagalog for tax, and buhay ... prefrosh temped on the same floor he was living in. Malingap is the feeling ... , which you take to earn credit for an MIT subject without taking the class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  kicks off "welcome week" for the Class of 2023. At some schools, maybe ... !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can ... events aren't worth attending. This is 100% a lie! For a quick

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  ’ve been going to the same school for most of our lives, so I wanted to ... plagued my thoughts for a while, but when I thrust myself into the world of ... ’m grateful for how supportive she is; even though she criticizes a significant

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  course." Or: "I can see that the CharlieCard is for scale, but is there ... This post has spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery ... 't have fifty people; the number's closer to 65. But this is a series, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  usually go in the back door when I'm late but today, TODAY for reasons still unknown to the universe I went for the front door, all while my TA just ... 't make this stuff up. It is against all the rules of absurdity (which I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  next step. The same thing is true in college... for the most part. -- My ... decided to move to the east coast for reasons I'll get into later."] the ... ?t=5756 -- When I got to the airport for my first ever flight, I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on ... ; however, it was all for naught the moment my efforts would matter most. I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  the best of my knowledge is the husband of Paula Hammond, an alumna ... also know what it is. (6:15) The "expectation gap" is a new term for me ... are now professors! Paula Hammond ('84, PhD '93), is now the Head of

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

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  feelings all the time. Here are a few! 1. Breathing This is the number one ... let the breath out for at least six seconds (even longer if you can). Do ... through the MIT tunnels at night can be really helpful for me when I feel

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  entire language for a regional accent. The language we learned didn ... , dapped up my brother, and walked out. Dapping is the unspoken form of our ... 't then you don't. It is as simple as that. I remember back in school the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... . The best part is that Tom and I didn’t have to follow the dress code. Thank god. The school building is small, so we were able to find our

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  unless you are very comfortable coding. 6.100L is the class for if you ... recommends a math course for you. Your advisor is also informed of this ... school, so I didn't study for it. I already know the material, right? I can

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• 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.

  

  Hilbert’s third problem, the problem of defining volume for polyhedra, is a ... Lemma The cone lemma is our name for the 1903 integrality argument by ... my math major. (The second one, which I’m taking this semester, is 18

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

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  "] AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH[/caption] To some extent, this is stuff I’ve been doing for the ... right now"]to colleges for undergrad,[/annotation] and I can’t trace the ... settled into a comfortable rhythm, one that is distinctly different from the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020