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• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  else, I want to make it clear that in my opinion, the class itself was a ... point of this blog is to say that: robotics is really really hard lol ... able to get above a C in this class. Normally I'd just tell myself that C

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  [Editor’s note in 2023: This post contains outdated information. The ... (including those admitted or deferred in Early Action), and is to be completed ... updates you want us to know about. Feel free to write in bullet points or

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  2023 is now live. While some have jumped at the chance to scope out the ... applicants to find inventive new ways to complete the application both in ways we did not intend and in ways entirely contrary to our explicit

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!

  

  Gala, our student-run fashion show! Originally conceptualized in 2023 as ... pics. All the models are dressed in all black, learning how to walk on ... are filtering in to drop off their garments in the back room, and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • April 27, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were ... "]McCormick[/annotation] Penthouse to brainstorm ideas for our show in February, and Bomber Formal ... to 3 Class of 2023 events. One was a tunnel hunt and it was a ton of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  to win their second NEWMAC championship Take that in: your MIT friends ... task—no, my duty—to finally say what needs to be said: MIT is a jock ... participate in one of the 33 varsity sports. The MIT where, underneath all the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  . When I came by to pick up the key the person in charge was flustered and ... week but that I and my students were not to eat anything while in the ... general, and not just in a bad way. I’m kinder to my body. I’m more

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  Barcelona. I look forward to finishing these books and others in 2023 :) ... commentary; I look forward to reading more Vonnegut in the future.   ... , and about Bell's relationship to it. She starts with her house in Berlin

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  Engineering with a Concentration in Product Development (2A-PD). Feel free to ... learning curve, i’ve grown to enjoy it! i’m currently interested in AI ... ’m determined to publish a book before i die born in atlanta, raised in alabama

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  culture. If you’re in the market for somewhere to be from, I give Hawaii a ... ‘au Crater Boys and Iz, and learning to boogie board. But I lived in North ... Hawaii, home to me was still in NC. Hawaii’s beaches and weather and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  expectations and the stakes feel higher, in a way that makes it hard to keep ... 's admirable, in a way, to declare this the meaning of life. The world faces many ... meaning—but we must all have our own meanings to keep going. And, in truth

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  students hand-write papers in class and lose the opportunity to think ... 's experts in the field, and wanted to share them on our blogs since I know ... I'm briefly emerging from hard work in the application mines to share

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  with just major decisions in my life like decisions to apply to grad ... of reasons. I wanted to get better at guitar and paint more, in ... spring and was able to do well in them. I did well in my summer classes. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  in the moment. It's also nice being able to think "I would like to do ... whimsical sense of humor. She's so willing to try new things. The lens in ... this blog. By going solo, you can more deeply understand what you like to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  many new abilities our hero Link gains in his quest to defeat Ganondorf ... failed me! But why? Linear algebra to the… rescue? TL;DR, rotations in 3D ... way to describe a rotation in 3D is with a matrix – a 3x3 grid of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  people that I’m a Bomber, especially people I talked to in high school ... me to MIT, and Burton-Conner in particular, is the fact that it allows ... !" DTYD itself is held in mid-April, but the weeks leading up to it are full

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  March 27th, i got to experience spreak in all its glory! it was absolutely ... —it was great seeing all the '22s who used to live in Burton Conner, along ... immediately ubered to the airport with two people in my group who also live in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  , I try to be.” - my blogger bio, circa summer 2023 In one of the ... giving feedback, you’re supposed to put the papers in alphabetical order ... papers for teachers—hell, I used to do so in my second grade class during

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  in 2022, I challenged myself to listen to an album every day. I ... in grisly detail, are incredible books that I have no choice but to ... myself. in terms of tracking music, I was too lazy to develop a rating

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  further ado... In 2024, the MIT Admissions bloggers listened to 686 ... . For reference, there are 525,600 minutes in a year. Congratulations to ... Music too 😔[/caption] Just like last year, Gloria put us all to shame in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024