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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  , Long Island, New York, a small town with a tourism and maritime economy ... school (my graduating class: 65 students!), and managed to take all three ... family to go to college, and being from a town that sent few of its

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  school admission process is almost done, and I'm on track to graduate and enter the adult world. And yet the past three weeks have been the most ... recommendation that you don't want to do a little presentation? I said sure. And

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  string up 120 miles of wire and cable and set up over 1000 posts: they ... charge of operating the telescope, and collecting data. Bear in mind that ... day, which she analyzed by hand, because she was (and is) a beast. A

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  got switched to hard mode for me after November started (and no, this ... before I sat in Bates Hall for about two hours and made progress on my ... ="Intro to Computational Thinking and Data Science. Runs for one quarter"]6

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  special and different type of hectic every year that I’ve begun classes here ... or a new UROP, and pre-semester cleaning of my new home, the DPhi ... Professor Minicozzi often played the role of both a math professor and a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  ; *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... requirements or statistics. And below, I've provided answers to some additional FAQs: Recommendations, School Forms, and Other Documents

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  share with you guys. I had a bunch from Sadoway's last 3.091 lecture and ... files at the moment and I'm too lazy to really search for them, so I ... decision to take the EMT class offerred through MIT Medical and MIT-EMS. This

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  Hello world! I’m Song, I’m currently a freshman here at MIT, and I ... ="thing that compiles and runs code from a particular programming language ... are esoteric programming languages (esolangs), which are impractical and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  until 8:15 because I needed nearly an hour to flat-iron my hair and apply makeup, and then I had to get to school early so I could get in extra math ... brand-sponsored twentysomethings who taught me how to layer my jackets and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  would be nothing but an empty husk *dramatic sigh* making and curating ... freshman year playlist before i started school last August. and since my ... Out by T.I. — this was the first Mocha Moves audition piece and thus the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  five questions: On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest and 1 ... and stanford. I want to do engineering, so MIT seems obvious. however, i don't want only a hardcore engineering education and want to be able to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  my next degree and had a sensational time. Now, many years later, we revisit rejection with a renewed lens. Professional writers and performers—and ... rejections from the past decade and a half. After graduation I returned to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  assembled a mailing list of faculty, grad students, undergraduates, and more ... more around… 7 people. The date rolls around and everything goes ... -spicy.”"][/annotation] The food was amazing, and I’m definitely planning to go again

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  The summer before college was my last summer of being 18, and thus my ... ?) where you read and reviewed five books. I figured to optimize my books read/time spent ratio as an 18 year old, I would read short novellas and

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  the cool kids, and it's great because I get to customize my planner the ... left last week's assignments here so you'll look at this and think, "wow ... pilgrimage to Lamont Library in Harvard and camp there for hours. It's far

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  One. It was a lie that made me choose MIT. I was told, and I believed ... semester, that MIT had parties like any other college, and that MIT wasn ... my registration, saw that I had six classes listed, and said "I know

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  supermarket and it is absolutely DIVINE with honey"]tea[/annotation] to celebrate! If not, I hope this blog, the same virtual mug of tea, and a ... and stay clear of the clutches of procrastination.  Well… I did start

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ’ve compiled some of my thoughts on the portfolio process and collected some ... student community made up of some of the world’s most intelligent and creative individuals interested in an education centered on science and

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  . And there is one really, really cool thing you can do on chalkboards ... how to draw dotted lines in about 20 seconds, and you'd succeed 99 ... ="alignnone" width="1000"] infographic made using chalk and dotted lines :o

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  former residents and friends of the Haus (Paula C. '12, Tara E.'14, Ru M. '17, Sabrina M. '19, and Anna B.), which was officially closed to ... , Sabrina, Allan). Residents and alumni were concerned about the future of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018