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• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  ! There is a lot going on, obviously. I could write a lot of posts. I could ... lot better at Spanish, to the point that I think I can learn on my own ... (which is way harder than you would think it'd be???) I'm coming to the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  or ideological bubbles.   Wikipedia took me to the article on ... contemplated going back to sleep and worked on my urop instead. then i took a ... positive thing to people's lives. this is a good feeling and i'd like it to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  huge one of those things is reading. I love books. I used to be one of ... Lord of the Rings series (which took me through winter break to actually ... hesitate to identify a key theme or point of the novel; it’s not clear to me

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  chapter of my life is done and that in order to grow we need to put ... to life - the sim version of me that is not only an accomplished ... is today. with a few clicks of my mouse, i put her to work. gym

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  .[/annotation]  This was not a decision we made lightly. Our reliance on these tests is ... sake, but only to the extent that they help us make better decisions for our students, which they do. We regularly research the outcomes of MIT

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  most we take on here at MIT, it's a easy one to solve. As many of you ... duties for many years before then. Essentially, my job is to find some of ... or less, except instead of going to the NFL Combine, I'm going to FIRST

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  it’s like to live on Conner 2, or plan REX, or UROP, or decide how to ... , and so forth. The mission of the blogs is to help our students ... students or students at other colleges). This application is open to all MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  Journalism and Political Science (which only required 2 semesters of STEM to ... myself. I've been surprised to learn that there is a community of students ... in under-resourced countries or finding new ways to study underwater

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  to CPW - I really had very little idea of what college life is like ... of actually solving the problems. (I also completely blanked on how to ... done far better on the test than I had. Ultimately, I decided to stick

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  world is full of mysteries. To end this inconclusive tale of my brief and ... Three months ago, I informed MIT admissions of my firm intent to ... Course 2 or 6 major for the rest of eternity, or at least until someone

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  a mild indifference, which is more or less how I’ve started out most ... full of personal matters on top of school, not to give in to indifference ... , so who knows why.) There was a lot of “ooh, that place is hard to get

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  procrastinate. Which isn’t to say that the videos aren’t effective or useful ... of thinking about old issues. This is all to say that I was doing ... hours ahead and it is not fun, ESPECIALLY since I’ve been trying to sleep

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  on other things, most of which involve books. In the past month or so ... just not thought of some way to take care of yourself - or embark on some ... you do what you want (or have) to do. It's the sort of thing where you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  that something is good or bad. - Mostly Me I try to also get rid of ... 's the honest truth! This is actually kind of funny to write down because I ... deadline to find a place to live, which is...pretty fast, but I really didn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  of a fear that I wouldn't do it "right" or I wasn't "smart enough" to ... automatic resizing of windows and being able to place them vertically or ... . For me, the hardest part is figuring out where to start. I started

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  sure to focus on the correct ‘type’ of achievement; not too technical, or ... don’t have anything coherent to say on the topic as a whole. This is a ... classes had any grounds upon which to act as if I was inept. So I did better

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  to be people, in which case I would whole-heartedly agree that one of the best parts of MIT is the tiny furry people walking around on the ... personalities of the felines on Fifth West of East Campus.    Puru is a ragdoll

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  to land a job as a blogger than it is to get into MIT in the first ... difficulty of the decisions is no excuse for not making them. Decide we must ... or otherwise. Kate will be living in East Campus, although she is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  for the fall semester. i decided to do this for a lot of different reasons which i won't go into in this post but the overarching reason is ... felt like this was sort of my last real semester at MIT. this is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  I got better at letting it roll off. (amount of time you have to be ... presentation on Poisson statistics, I got torn to shreds. Instead of defending ... -ray muons to be one point eight times the speed of light. Better than another

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012