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• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  version does not make you cooler, it just means you might have a harder time ... .02 or 8.022 If you don't like physics/forgot it all and don't know how in ... Calculus BC: Take 18.02 If you don't like math/forgot it all/don't know how

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  , but it does have one thing going for it. You walk down the street in NYC ... , which is always sad. So here it is, my attempt at some sort of summary of my summer in Spain. It doesn't reeeally say what I want it to, but I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  . That was crazy. Still don’t know how I did it. I highly recommend these ... learning how to take a test with our actual school’s exams. This time, it’s ... It’s that time of year again. I remember it well. I intended to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  (it's kinda funny how this was like the antithesis of summer '04, when I ... proposals and applications. Aye, it's that time of the year again. If ... Stanford now). I did my first math "research" at Mathcamp. It was pretty

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  've started to think about how my relationship to it has changed. Guys, I ... 's decades-long hunt for a serial killer whom he saved as a child. It has tons ... IT. OR READ IT, THAT WORKS TOO Hunter X Hunter A decently long show

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  "Howdy, how can I help?" I meekly smile at the word usage, and answer his ... place: Austin, Texas. Texas is not what I had expected it to be. The ... . Felt made for me. Felt right. It made me look forward to a hot girl

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  This blog post unfolds in three parts: (1) a story about how I got ... time, I didn't want it to be true – who wants to spend a whole year without finding their new college bestie? – but it was 100% true. Freshman

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  started measuring time in units of how long it took me to knit a headband ... around me. If someone asks me how I’ve made it through this pandemic so far ... the main thing that has helped through the ends of my world. Whether it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  every stranger i encountered, and it took me a long time to realize that ... with sketchy-looking people presents obvious risks, but it can also lead ... in the desert, and it was really difficult to tell beforehand whether

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  The more I try to push it I realize gonna let go of control In my AP ... identify them. It feels a lot like trying to untangle jewelry; I try to undo it, ruffle through my thoughts to find a thread I can tug on, but find

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  Wow. So this is what official blagging* is like. It’s nice to meet ... version of it all. I think the theme of my first semester at MIT was defining “Home”. It’s something I didn’t really know I would have to do. It’s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  In for literal months. Does this sound dumb? That's because it is! I was so ... post comparing applying to college to applying to jobs. It's job ... return offer. Obviously, it's nice to be on the other side of things

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  LIFE - forget how it felt to receive that e-mail. If I go crazy and ... guess, demonstrate how serious I was about learning it. That idea hadn ... him. I would let him know how much time it took me, and how often I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Matt does! And I'm starting to get more comments in general - I guess my ... college interviews. Nearly three years ago now...believe it or not, guys ... expertise. So here's the question: how often is there kitchen-contention? Is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  'm always wondering how this will play out in the long-term, in the future ... living it and participating in it. I was recently asked by my friend "Are ... that are happening to you, but how are you?" I didn't have a good answer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  You've now had a chance to post lots of questions. Now it's my turn to answer them. From Amelia: What fields does course 9 include? Primarily biology? Chemistry? Mathematics? A little bit of everything? It

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  Bridge--but it does mean that some poor person could be walking around ... of it like a box full of memories. ...and the Trumpet of Coffee On ... to go home and get my instrument, so I had to take it to class with me

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  that difference - and yet how, through it all, I feel that I've been ... long gone. I was reflecting on this the other day as I happened to be ... better recently! I've told the story once before on the blogs of how I went

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  remember how I was feeling last year when the deadline was coming up…and then ... application work during winter break so I could devote my full attention to it ... that I had already spent the right amount of time working on it. Since I

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  how long this was supposed to be, and they told me FOUR HOURS. I signed ... flesh desires, but they also longed to be with their wives. It made them ... Taxes”. It’s a [annotation note="Communication Intensive in the Humanities

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025