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• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  , and as time goes on, it becomes easier and easier for Zuko to listen to ... little while ago, and I decided that I was going to do something for myself ... relation to the world: I asked for help. Ever since, the struggle to find

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  or major Y declines, are you likely to look for another student like ... for a class of about 1,075 students this year. Based on our estimates of ... "), we admitted 1611 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  Question One Elizabeth asked, I have one... I was talking to my dad, trying to make decisions about this whole college application thing, and he said if I were planning on going to medical school I should definitely

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  instead of seeing, for example, how the president will react to these ... : pretty to look at and nice to listen to (the tagline says it all), 5 out of 5 stars! The whole shebang: I had originally intended to write this

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  ="However, honorary Pirating Certificates have been given, like to Matt Damon for his ... test, which requires you to tread water for FIVE MINUTES. I can’t even ... in a pool deep enough for me to have to swim since I was, like, 8. So

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in BRASIL! my summer in january

  

  films to prepare for our class discussions. So as I travelled between ... and I would walk about 10 minutes to the metro, ride for 3 stops, and walk 10 minutes to the Brazilian British Center for a total trip time of

  • by Victor D. '27
  • February 5, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  are looking for work to get a feel for industry, then planning to return ... grail of "a nice company that will pay for you to go back to grad school ... fairs. 3. I can't go to MIT for a PhD. Now, this isn't a bad thing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  to give them 19 years on the chain gang just for adding another letter ... . On Monday, we had to submit the primary themes for our theme ... get a piece of e-mail that's accidentally been replied-to-all, I say to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  'll be in the machine shop starting to build the basic platform for our car ... So in hopes to show you more about what classes are like, over the ... .007, Design and Manufacturing I. The basic goal of the class is to design and

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  , so I have to keep it plugged in to work while I wait for the ... to make an art installation for a museum someday. I want to adopt a cat ... carry. Though I think it counts for something that I came to MIT with

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  hey! PNR exists for a reason, and now seems like the best time to try ... schedule.[annotation note="thank you to fellow blogger Fiona for making me ... sightreading, and I even got to play The Legend from Deltarune for my prepared

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  like to call it) for all of high school, and we’ve been twins, well, our ... – the day of the first counselor meeting to prepare for FAP. We walk into ... watching a quality piece of cinema: Troll 2, not to be mistaken for the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  I searched for the optimal way to get above ground) … ran back inside ... . And the grey sock. For years, I had worn perfectly matched socks to ... dose perhaps six to fifteen times higher than that for humans. However

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  introduce students to the tools they'll be using for 2.007. Today was my ... , the project. In years past it's been customary for students in 2.670 to ... Well, my two weeks of no IAP agenda have come to a close and I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  tick tock tick tock notes about sunrises and broken doors and unfinished endings

  

  for good and rightfully relegated to transcripts or class registration ... proceeded to doomscroll for an hour; at 12:30 am, i inexplicably began reading ... rubric for the comic and discovered, to my horror, that there were a couple

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 27, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  myself, traveled over to Hanscom Air Force Base (about a 30 minute drive) for the fall semester's FLX, or Field Leadership Exercise. Over the past five weeks, we had been learning skills to help us in this exercise. From

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  returned to me so far. I write up my psets for 8.022 and 18.701 Algebra I ... Harvard libraries, my primary use for it is to ride the M2 shuttle for free ... protein bar for breakfast, getting to the testing room super early, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  —and all others forced to bid periodically for their next opportunity ... Cambridge, where those hiring for entry-level positions were happy to reject ... After my rejection from MIT in my prior post, I attended Cornell for

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Manage Your Future

  

  . I really want to improve my qualitative research skills: for that I plan to ... to work in their chosen field. In 2010 & 2011, we sent 66 Management students to 9 different countries to intern in companies such as

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  didn't go to any of them, for one thing. Sorry to disappoint, but I guess ... Lots of people thanked me for my application advice, for which you ... whole thing. There will be plenty of time to go crazy and lose sleep once

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005