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• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  people who had "merely" gotten 4's on the AP test. In high school, I'd been ... tail end off for those C's in a way that I'd never worked for my A's in ... choice between studying an extra two hours for a test and doing a critical

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  MIT, my frequent flier account has already broken six figures in terms ... going to ship back originally), went and took the test, returned to MIT to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  started college on the east coast, sometimes I’d text them in the evening ... AMC–except that for those tests, a score of 70% (on a multiple choice ... quantity. How to food? As I'd heard before arriving, [annotation note

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  words in a day or two. [caption id="attachment_113806" align ... hard [caption id="attachment_113809" align="aligncenter" width="300"] me right now[/caption] 18.06: a.k.a Linear Algebra! I’d planned on trying

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  inference. Topics include randomized trials, regression, instrumental ... in the context of the managerial environment. Covers a number of ... better enable you to think about your behavior at work, your environment

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  awkwardly, as in my past experiences. but we played party games and board games and it worked out fine. i joked that "as soon as you've played a game with someone, you've met them." well, we played castlefall, a game

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  explained to her my fears – I had been certain I’d never be an engineer. The ... makes it a very friendly and collaborative environment. Some of my ... India that would otherwise not have access to respiratory tests. My summer

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  week. BTS owns me and could hit me with their tour bus and I'd say thank ... sophomore year and gotten a 5 on the AP test with no real difficulty, aside ... changing constantly -- new friends, new environment, new classes, new

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  . I’d known that the Institute was a sheltered bubble, but didn ... ’s environment be conducive to people with non-young adult problems? According to ... —outcomes including STIs, unintended pregnancies, Pap tests, and contraception. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  will grow and develop within your environment and to a potentially large ... up going in very interesting directions. I almost wish I’d had an older ... actual undergraduate courses, with labs, graded tests, online real

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  playing it soon!   7. Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! I'd actually ... favorite piece of media was then, I'd have trouble answering. "I like The Good Place a lot," I'd offer, after some hesitation. And while The Good

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  hear that you have to submit an ID photo, because you've just graduated ... . Obtain an MIT ID upon landing at freshman orientation with that awkward ... people's ID photos and realize that 1) it was fine to submit a picture that

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  a multiple choice test-taking machine, and already forgot what a pset ... counselors that play pranks on games with you, and generally spend a laughter ... nights when we: + Mario Karted + played AOM together in Zach's room after

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  ambulance, they let me play with the stretcher. (Mostly I just think Mike, the ... with the other bloggers. *grin* I announced to the room that I'd be ... much do you suggest we go to CPW? I'm playing at Carnegie Hall the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  , I'd feel pretty burnt out and want to do nothing but mindlessly tune out. In years past, when I wasn't working, I'd spend my summers lounging around the house, playing video games, watching television, and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  ! they played Beyond the Sea, a song my dad used to sing to me as a kid ... grateful i am to have found a family in them [caption id="attachment_49048 ... audiobooks. it sucks realized how thankful i am for my living environment at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  was on the guest list and the prefrosh had a non-MIT ID.  Many other ... building needed to pass a "tilt test" with a water bottle at the top of it to ... tilt test, but still lost terribly due to its height.  However, we had

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  created accounts on LeetCode and HackerRank and have been doing their "easy ... coding (not that I'd ever do it, but it'd be neat to answer q's in it.) I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  .org. A series of clicks led to me opening a MyMIT account and filling out ... useful since I’d never even travelled anywhere on the East Coast. If

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  actually know her, and I’d like to think we’re friends but I don’t want to ... thoughts about life from when I was 19 are forever preserved in this account

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017