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• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  , or I won't go on the June degree list!) And so, in my last IAP, with ... '09: Taking 8.01L (which is physics for people who didn't take physics ... .0, C = 3.0, D = 1.0, and F = 0.0. This means that, so long as you don't

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  of January, but he wasn't certain." There is no "deadline," as we ... didn't get in, and have reapplied this year, we will see both ... ?" If the application tracking doesn't list a recommendation, odds are we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  intended to write a week ago, between now and the party tonight! I don't ... , but he didn't have much in common with them. Then he got a little ... parties going on that night, and the other two were a lot closer, but I didn't

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  , please don't read any further. Just enjoy my witty repartee in the September 20 entry. There aren't any pictures there, but I promise it will ... bunch of '08s. Despite being three T stops away from campus, Porter Square

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  spoilers), I have (c o m p l e t e l y p a i n l e s s l y :’-)) transcribed ... wanted to work at Disney, but I didn’t how to get there or anyone in LA or ... animation, but it did teach me what I didn’t like to do with animation. It was

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  that I just don't believe. If you think about it for a few more moments ... given turn was the dominant one, I don't think would have built cities and ... many frustrations, I can't help but think that the ultimate focus needs

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  closely. of course, that was back when i was a prefrosh and didn't know him ... board (and video) games together. cj wasn't in our pod, but since i lived ... graduated. i don't remember whether he actually completed this, but from what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  walked into a door with my nose in a book. How I didn’t break my neck going ... part. You may now read the book (or this blog post, rather. I don’t know ... first things I learned as a student here is that you can’t be good at

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  don’t see any students I recognize, and sink a little lower in my seat ... probably wouldn’t recognize and who might be in 7.06 lecture with me. There ... , which Gmail filters out for me. Most of them aren’t actionable and I punt

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  shouldn't really be an excuse, but I feel like the reason why I dislike ... like a blob of equations and manipulations with forces that I can't visualize, fields that I can't perceive. When I left high school, I vowed to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  , this is our first year blogging, so I don't quite know what to expect. I ... competition, "Cry if you win because you're happy, but don't cry if you lose ... vast majority of people who apply aren't admitted. See it as a great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  become much more [annotation note="when i say urgent, i don’t mean urgent ... really, really don’t need the answers yet. Maybe this post provides a way ... and come back at a later time”. you can read this post even if you don’t

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  wants to be like, "Oh my god, I can't let other people know that I have ... that I don't just casually enjoy feels like a crime. Admitting that I ... confession out of my mouth. And it shouldn't feel like that! Being passionate

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  ]before realizing that I didn't like nanomaterials or physics enough to commit to ... didn't have a lot of pre-reqs and didn't seem overly technical at first ... Design 4.657: Design: The History of Making Things 21T.232: Producing

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  . I didn’t know what to do with myself or what was important to me - faced with decisions like where to live and to work. I didn’t have values ... losing things I didn’t realize were important, do I now have things I won’t

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  you don’t literally live with your friends, it takes effort to organize ... wasn't [annotation note="even though the community was so cool 😭 ... , whether they’re just great at planning things with friends or don’t really

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  I can't wait to write one of those class tier list blogs before I ... " or "[insert hardware jargon that I don't remember because I had no idea ... unmatched). I still don't know what a microcontroller is, but no one really

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  healthy– something something “Life doesn’t work out like a satisfying story ... invested a lot of time into academics (and writing), but I didn’t really ... of my shoulders. I didn’t buy dorm decor and didn’t spend much time in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  there was a couch, so we'd fit. It costs $5500 per month. "Beggars can't ... moved in. It didn't have air conditioning or three-prong outlets or bowls ... complain about housing in the bay area, though, this isn't a post about that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  that list to the ones that are most palatable for a blog. # I didn’t ... ."]asleep.[/annotation] This coming semester, I plan to journal more, to store the memories I don't ... will not regret doing this  (unless something happens) (but I don't

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022