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  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  ’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it certainly isn’t because of a lack of material. I have more material than ever ... . Some of you brilliant prospective MIT students know exactly what I mean

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  A lot of different people have been asking me about my prospective major. And for these gracious inquirers, I have a lot of different answers ... question. This place certainly has no shortage of learned

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data ... : MIT should release the full set of admissions data stripped of ... 'm a huge fan of statistics. I read 538 and Football Outsiders every day

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The combined weight of all the termites in the world is 10 times the combined weight of all the humans in the world. Confused ... middle of a field. "How interesting", observed the astronomer, "all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... gets me every single time, and I regularly tear up watching World of ... I feel my blood run cold. Of the many memorable and inspirational

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  . That hope was certainly true of me, and from chatting with friends ... Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go ... wager that half of the successful and famous people will tell you, “just

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

   have all made appearances during my time at MIT because of some sort of collaboration with people here. It's neat-o business, folks. And as of last Monday, we got to add Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and current CEO of Facebook

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  , a class inspired by Charles and Ray Eames's short film "Powers of Ten" which features [annotation note="Last week we heard from Skylar Tibbits of the Self-Assembly Lab; this week we heard from David Sun Kong of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  superhero fan, and I hadn't even heard of Iron Man until only recently ... ; Anthony Stark was born on Long Island, the son of Howard Stark, a wealthy industrialist and head of Stark Industries, and Maria Stark. Tony is a boy genius

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... different type of work this semester--the work of being present and focused, of using my body and my voice, of taking care of myself--things i am

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  -analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related ... to explain this, researchers have hypothesized about the impact of ... mental rotation exercises. “Mental rotation” here refers to the act of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in ... 's government, and was the captain of the cheerleading squad. When I was a ... engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  (Preface: This post is essentially a tribute/continuation of Selam ... this year’s cohort of students applying to MIT to know that as well! If ... alone here :) ) Before I had friends, I had books. For those of you who

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  At the start of each semester, I typically join Facebook Messenger group chats for most of my classes. These group chats are somewhat helpful ... of their assignments. I'll be taking a gap year this year, so I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  First of all, can you believe the blogs are 10 years old? That ... feels an odd mix of distant and weirdly close. Like the first time your ... . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... of studying in the US would be like, but we spoke in the offhanded ... ” or “running for president”. I had read one of the MIT blogs once

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  while I was here.   32. Take a lot of pictures. One of my major ... was the cost of film and processing. Digital cameras are cheap and you have plenty of hard drive space, so you have no excuse. 22. Take some

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  ) last semester I'm finally able to jump into a couple of the CS classes ... all of my classes.  After genuinely considering changing my major at the end of last semester, it's a nice change of pace. 6.006 Introduction To

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  words and abbreviations and numbers are part and parcel of our culture ... showcase this phenomenon of "speaking in MITese," because I personally feel it's one of MIT's most interesting - and yet also most understated

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  floor of building 3 with a graduate student and we were both working furiously. I had a deadline at 5 pm for my Economics of Health class essay, so everything else happening around me was kind of a blur. Then I heard two loud

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013