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• Blog / Challenges

  at a distance staying in contact with friends from home

  

  does it mean to stay "close" when you no longer share a daily life ... forgot! :( I sent a happy belated birthday message. It made me really think about just how disconnected I am from people at home—some of the

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  your dreams. It’s really enlightening realizing how my perspective has ... defined by its discontinuities. The first half of the year was spent trying ... environment, and I’ve been trying to soak in as much of it as I possibly can. So

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  talks about the importance of music, about how we cling to it in our moments of greatest need, about how it is not a luxury, but rather ... ’m not so sure about the decision I’ve reached. How is it possible to be so

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  are these only used for placement purposes? How long does it take for ... crazy, but then you know more math than I do... How long do they ... be able to access it...) you'll see that each class shows how its

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  should be doing. my supervisor tells me that she also does not know how to ... ever leaving a ~0.04 km^2 area. dis boi long, so buckle up (and feel free ... [/annotation]in order to write down the poem on the paper i keep by my bed. here it is

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  , but beyond that I can't help. All I can say is to apply and see how it ... many girls applied EARLY last year? and how many got in EARLY? Does the ... 10 to 15 pages; how does that sound?" And Kelly wrote, "I actually have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  Tuesday, but it's dedicated to Tuesday, because on Tuesday morning I pulled ... the star of fire to reach the zenith. Once it did, the priest would remove the heart of this man, and replace it with a piece of wood, that was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  long it’s like a reflex and you no longer actively feel excited about it ... this sentence here? What does it illustrate about you/your life/this story? What is the point of your essay, and how does this sentence move

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  have to figure out how to deal with it properly. this is a pretty low ... conversation in our suite lounge, and it’s just loud enough that it’s preventing me from falling asleep but not so loud that it warrants me coming out

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  dining programs struggle with this. MIT Dining does its best to seek out ... in their freshman year and goes on to graduate. You can do it. And how many hours does it take to do a problem set or understand a concept? It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  eternity. It still does right now. So the prospect of this long wait was what ... someone gossiping about how their friend's kid got into MIT. I knew it was a good school based on how everyone spoke of it, but that was, for the most

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  . Still, though, I’m glad I did it. I learned the limits of how much my ... made me realize how much of the physical world (pretty much all of it ... how it works. The platform is called TaleBlazer, and it’s available to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  SoOoOoOOooooo it’s the most wonderful time of the year: IAP! That ... it. When I was a prospective student, I thought that IAP was the ... narrow my eyebrows. When does IAP start for MIT students? Most classes

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  : "How does anyone know if you've visited a school before? Do you have to ... , how should I go about doing it?" We have no idea who's visited and who ... eligible for fee waiver.I didn't know how to solve it so I created another

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  class, it’s the first time that the number of hours my classes are supposed to take is less than the actual number of units, although it’s a bit ... considering a Spanish minor, I’ve had to backload them. Secondly, it makes me

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  thing ever won’t happen for a long time still, and when it does happen, I ... calories), being with friends. This is what it looked like: The road to camp. Happy. And that above is mostly how I felt. Then I went back to Mc

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s here! The post you've all been waiting for, or at least until you saw Snively with…

  

  it under wraps until its official release. Today, I'm finally able to show it to you, since the Next Big Mailing has officially been shipped ... course of this year. A lot of them were very wordy and long-winded. Some of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  desk instead of listening to the teacher. You probably know how it goes ... plenty of dorm rooms open, but I'm not really sure how it would work ... competition between students, and is it destructive competition? Before I give a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  take a shower! What does this mean for term life? It's actually a lot of ... semester, it's easy to forget that there exists an entire world outside of ... not being able to take a shower after a long day's work. Now picture

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  and sinigang mix. It's weird how like, we're all Filipino, but the way ... express mine. It's wild how much the three of us shared. We're all Filipino ... " each other relationship. It's strange how the internet leads to these

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023