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• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  every time an adult passed me i’d tense up and brace for the possibility ... them ever realizing i'd abused staff powers to do so. it wouldn’t have ... because it would be predatory to the student, but the fact that i'd even

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  myself I’d open it again after finals week. There was snow on the ground ... I’ll start again,” I’d say, every week, or month, or whenever I got ... , and I began to worry I’d be so exhausted from the semester that I wouldn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  our old rice cooker. Yes, a rice cooker.  [caption id="attachment_55827 ... Collect all the ingredients [caption id="attachment_55831" align ... , tomatoes, and green onions into sizes that you’d like. I’d recommend keeping

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  manuscript. I figured I’d have time during the upcoming Independent Activities ... figuring out plot threads, filling in the gaps I’d skipped over before. The ... becoming the person who could write this book.  Within the last year, I’d

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  . Foresight can be 20/20, too! All myopia jokes aside, here's what I'd like to ... having made it better than when I arrived. Something I'd like to do is to ... (metric spaces!), the writing style was somewhat dry, so I'd only give it a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  for some good wholesome bonding. the experience was exactly what i’d ... r e~ made me realize how accustomed to MIT campus i’d become in the ... . [caption id="attachment_47815" align="aligncenter" width="225"] the pic that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  Dear MIT Protofrosh, If I had a time machine, I’d travel to my senior year of high school. I’d tell myself not to worry about college ... suddenly the unknown. So if I had a time machine, I’d tell myself that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  I’d never stayed up later than 4 am during school years. I had eleven ... nine had identically structured problems? Sometimes, I’d get bursts of ... lack of solutions, nor monitor the clock. In 5.112, I’d slide to the edge

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  bafflement appeared as I handed my boarding pass and state-issued photo ID to the boarding-pass-and-federal-or-state-issued-photo-ID-checker*. *Do ... guess that's okay. BPAFOSIPIDC: No, your ID is fine, but you should renew

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  time today I'd walked at least fifteen minutes in the complete wrong ... ever since I'd spent 11 hours seated next to an overly large man with a love of portable cheese would be with me a little longer. I wondered if I'd

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  , if I'd gone to pretty much any other school - certainly any non-tech school - I would still be on that track. I'd probably have gone through ... four years if I'd been just about anywhere else. As a top high school

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  colleges, so I thought I'd offer you a little advice of my own. More ... applying to MIT this year. In this vein, I thought I'd post some of my old ... , but the rest has changed, uh, quite a bit since I wrote it. I'd say that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  a great pset group (we had taken 2.003 together as well). [caption id ... id="attachment_96094" align="alignnone" width="500"] photoshoot with a ... professor and TA. [caption id="attachment_96095" align="alignnone" width="500

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  Potter earrings,” said my little sister.  In truth, I’d thought of zero of ... , and I’d learned recently that bandsaws, unlike scroll saws, don’t cut ... right tools to show up. 2. trapeze [caption id="attachment_79916" align

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  quickly tested. It started about 1am that night.  I had been getting in and ... tried and failed to study for my test on Friday. This is not my week. I ... test. I went through the rest of my day in a daze, and I identified the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  will AP tests do for me? AP tests will help you achieve physical and ... AP English tests will grant you exemption from the Freshman Essay

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  registration I had to go take a math test. I should take this opportunity to say ... no idea what he looked like. Well, during my math test they had the ... test and during lunch I glanced out the window and saw G4 interviewing

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  quite a relaxing escape from the frustratingly esoteric 7.012 test this ... anything. Why not? Pick up the phone and call! 1. It is Not a Test. When you ... a conglomerate of standardized test scores and a 500-word essay. I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  right, they want to know exactly what's on the test," faculty told her ... standardized tests like the SAT optional for applicants. A growing number of colleges have stopped requiring standardized tests, though none of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  real fire. However, I didn't account for the optic distortion that the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022