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• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  painted in my head. Your 20 year plan? scrap it. It won't help you. In late ... I was in. I hope this can help provide some solace to you on this day ... thriving at my state school (Purdue!!) and have found a community of bright

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  object a [annotation note="a common definition states that a tensor is ... sorts of things I want to do. It would be helpful, sure, but a solid ... material will help me in the future. I think my being a physics major has

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  customers around me, but not to me. I can’t help being a 5’3” young ... class at The Ohio State University and I am one of three females in a ... with little help. My boss says it’s great, then takes my words and, at

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  later than I ever wanted to. Today I flopped down on my bed, stated aloud my intention to study Calculus, and didn't move until Robyn, my ever-helpful ... the jade plant I already had, Marlon-Brando-plant is helping our room

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  -recognition application, EatOn. This program helps drivers choose restaurants by offering ... they had to manually write in keywords to help the system recognize ... more than 20 pages of state tables, which list the prompts and directions

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  :17-13:17 Chess is a Game Best Played with Nerf Guns Tired of the same old boring game of chess? No more! Now, just shoot your opponent to stop them from ... :17-15:17 Dominate Dominion Dominion, the (many) award winning game by Donald X is one

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  help build a sense of community by ensuring that everyone is friendly ... to piggyback off her anymore.] Then on Monday I helped with the WMBR ... so kind in helping me learn to use the control board. On Wednesday, I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  competitive whatsoever. I think there's friendly competition and games, but ... from you or not help you with an assignment. I think I really realized ... for physics help, and he ended up getting out of bed, walking to my dorm

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  'm worried that by pursuing a science/engineering career, I won't be helping ... , I won't be helping people or the world. 4.) I'm afraid that I'm not ... subjects, and that will help inform your decision. One of my friends, for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

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

  

  lived experience. However, I can help you think about place and how it ... " as basically everything that isn’t an urban area. Not super helpful ... step to understanding your experience, and are a great place to help an

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

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  designed to help the admissions committee get to know you as a full person ... application this way to help us deliver on our charge to enroll a vibrant ... to you? Does the work in your portfolio help us better understand

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  to get project help. host extra office hours by yourself when one of ... 112 help queue tickets. run a hackathon, aka extended office hours, where you spend six hours helping students debug code without any breaks

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  this book helped me with that. It covers the basic doctrines and history of the church, which was really helpful when I read the next book ... .   Doing Good Better by William MacAskill: I loved this book, and it’s helped

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  Dear current and future MIT students, There is a class you need to take. 12.409: Hands-On Astronomy. It's a 6-unit P/D/F (your options are: pass, get a D, or fail). You learn the basics of amateur astronomical

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  Hundreds of Facebookers united behind one banner and under several signs last Sunday, coming out to downtown San Francisco to support the annual Pride Parade! We weren't the only techies out there this weekend

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And I am telling you I’m going And you, and you, and you, you're gonna love me.

  

  , but it's a really intense course: 9 days, 9 hours a day, 9 units. I can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.

  

  Well, you probably saw Mitra's entry mentioning Senior Lecturer Gilberte Furstenberg (teacher of French III, a class we're both taking). The homework I'm doing right now is part of a unit called Cultura, where we

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Graduations

  

  , AIDS researcher 1997, Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  him a new unit of volume was created: the 'Bruno.'" Now the Bruno, like the Smoot, is a uniquely MIT unit of measure. Brush up on some of your MIT jargon... Bruno - A unit of volume resulting from a piano falling

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  City- sterile storage units and cookie-cutter houses.  There is ... bedroom had a mirror which I helped my father screw in with a power drill. I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023