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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  student perspective on things like class choices, deciding whether or not to do a varsity sport, deciding where to live, where to eat, how to manage your time, how to study, how many pset classes it's healthy to take, etc

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  .001 lecture from hell. I’m not even joking. So you know how the least fun part ... ’d be the person who answers your frantic phone call and then tells you to check if your computer is plugged in. It turned out that I wasn’t able to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  how happy i was that life felt like an abundant tree of gleaming vibrant fruit, beckoning for me to reach out and grab them. it seems every ... make myself busier. when i have a bad day, i buy myself a coffee to make

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  freshman fall is the time to learn how to do that. It is not the time to be ... to upperclassmen as a warning not to mack on the frosh, Newton's Third ... : the rule does not apply to freshman-freshman relationships, but I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  as productive as possible, I hate the idea of not being able to do ... aggressive illness because it's not bad enough that you have reason to complain ... that. I try not to gatekeep things I like from others, but some of y

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  over the last twenty years, using Google Maps to see how far away common ... care about how long it takes you to drive to get a Crunchwrap Supreme ... . TLDR; if you’re wondering, “Does knowing how to drive a tractor or

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  psets, then it's almost guaranteed that you're not going to do spectacular ... 'm just a freshman, I'm not entirely sure how the upper-level courses ... read this entry not even a year ago). Since then, I've gone to Spain with

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  learn how to make our own beer and proceeded to set up our brewing station ... personally learned how to purl and am finishing up a scarf; I’m hoping that my ... be very difficult, if not impossible to not float (some guys in my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  learning how to do more things. It feels like power to SSH somewhere and not ... need to think about what each word means, and how to arrange them in a ... remember how each word is announced. I also want to vary my tone of voice

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  is one of the best things you can do to prepare for college. Not only ... reflect on my experiences here at MIT. How am I doing in my classes here ... a strange idea. No one ever wants to be average. Society says that we

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  Journal about whether or not colleges should consider legacy in the admissions process. For those of you not familiar with the practice, “legacy ... your alumni happy by admitting their kids, they might be more likely to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  school! And not to mention those professors with scientific results named ... about how to make the most out of a UROP. While I lectured about the ... , most students who do UROPs do not get to publish their results either

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  , since I am at least honest enough to acknowledge that it will not receive ... 's not 10:30 AM; it's 10:28 AM. We didn't invent clocks for you to be wrong ... else are we supposed to be doing with our time, if not browsing the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  personality and are relevant to the question. Think about if and how the ... words to, reading them back, and rewriting them until they feel true. I ... ’re condensing four years into 250-word essays. To do that you have to understand

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  an email to these students with this information as well. We use MailChimp to send emails to prospective and admitted students. MailChimp requires that, in the footer to each email, we include a line explaining to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  this whole process. But that Saturday morning I was there to learn how to ... -answering machine! (Not to be confused with a "question answering machine", which ... workshops on how to use every inch of the college application to communicate

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  Have you ever wanted to see how accurate you can make a GPS? Have you ever wanted to see just how hot your PC can get before it starts messing ... concussed to prevent a reinjury. He told me, “Up to you, I’m not entirely sure

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  exactly what's going on right now and it's simply not responsible of me to ... of your dinners, so you still have to pay, just not as much. There are ... how much money you're spending on food. You also won't be tempted to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  reminder of how much I had forgotten since coming to MIT. Around this time ... of knowing things was fairly simple. I either knew how to solve a ... , but I might have to search the manual for how to use the tool. I suppose

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  taught me how to magnify images like that at the booth. (not really) I ... listening to Sabar drum music. Today we got to actually play them: not ... ; He'd want to know how my 18.01 test went....  

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008