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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  try and fail: to tackle hard psets, to sign up for difficult classes, to ... . Maybe your experiences were similar to mine; probably a lot of them were ... burned out and ready to move on, and although I still talk to the younger

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  advantage of the sunny, 55 degree weather to catch up on all the vitamin D I failed to absorb in wintry days past. In celebration of this meteorological grace, my writing professor agreed to move the location of today's class

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  over to the previously mentioned Diesel Cafe, where I read three applications, before heading to Teele Square for my usual Tuesday night pub trivia with Jeff and Chris (Prof. Morse to you). Sadly, we failed to win

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  are happy to chat with freshmen who show initiative. That's the key, though -- freshmen who show initiative: you've got to make a little bit of ... guys got to see some of the nice weather we have hidden around here

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  the audience I am directly talking to is meant to be members of the MIT ... stereotypically like rules. They provide formal systems with which to navigate the ... to axiomatic thinking. Except, in reality, mathematicians don’t start

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  yet. College is supposed to be about freedom. Discovering yourself is supposed to be a priority, somewhere up there with getting good grades and calling home once in a while. There are things to do at all hours

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A ... - “Failed” (⊙︿⊙) and if you’re a freshmen on Pass/No Record you can expect ... person with some unique circumstance) and you open up your grade report to

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  'm terrified that I'll fail. I've tried to do things and failed at them before - take, for example, everything related to 18.02 ever - but if I fail at ... student-type things (going to classes, sleeping very little, forgetting to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  sounds like. Clearly MIT is refusing to let me graduate without a few last hard kicks in the face. (Remind me to tell you about how I failed my swim ... my KeyboardFace™ wasn't caused by one big epic scientific fail for once

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  's alumni interviews. I am looking forward to discussing them on this blog, but first allow me to introduce myself. After growing up in Queens, NY, I went to MIT for college. I graduated about 20 years ago as a

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  and behold -- snow was finally upon us!!!! at 3 pm i walked to [annotation note="grocery store in the student center"]laverde's[/annotation] to ... them and was immediately seized by the need to try them, even though i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  The idea of taking a gap year, like to most, initially terrified me. Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do. There were no class schedules or club meetings to provide some substance

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  [/annotation]-- more content to come soon!! As background, 6.009 is "Fundamentals of ... -paid, people who choose to major in Course 6 are "selling out" or "only in it for ... I started to doubt my plan to major in 6. But now that I'm coding

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  I'm briefly emerging from hard work in the application mines to share ... language text in response to prompts.  There has been a tremendous amount of ... college (or even admissions application) essay, to say nothing of broader

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  naps into 2 hr naps. I’ve repetitively failed at responding to free food ... ’ve failed a midterm. I’ve aced a midterm. I’ve laser cut and assembled a brushless motor. I’ve finally learned how to properly breathe in Yoga. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  in this place full of opportunities and knowing that I failed to grasp ... -week summer component meant to ease the transition into MIT for incoming freshmen and provide them with all the support they might need to succeed

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  was used to. I complained about "drinking from the fire hose" since that ... was hard. We're talking miserable hard. It was a test of will, to be ... until late November, my very last test of the semester. It's one thing to

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions Don't stress out!

  

  have yet been exposed to. Don't blame me if you fail your classes. Dr ... shall provide. This list is not intended to be comprehensive by any means ... video game nerds. Order of the Stick D&D comes to life, basically

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  won season passes to Astroworld from a failing radio station back in my ... my season pass the first day I had it; I just never asked to go back ... WMBR, the MIT radio station, invited a few of us to go join him on the

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  documents to this Wednesday, February 1st, at 5 PM ET. This is a mighty good time to login to MyMIT and make sure everything is in! To recap, you may ... .687.9184 Fax is the most reliable way to get us a document. It is automagically

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012