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  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to “reflect upon my MIT experience.” :P Technically, I’m not kicked out from the blogs until the end of the summer,…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  Me: “Can I please list ‘can raise each eyebrow independently’ in the ‘skills’ section of my resume, so it doesn’t look so empty?” Other Freshman: “I made my first resume…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  Facebook is somewhat infamous on the college software developer scene for its ‘hackathons’. What exactly is a hackathon? “At Facebook, we believe that every engineer has a great idea within…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  Four years ago, Melis ’08 posted a list of the “101 Things To Do Before You Graduate” for her graduating class. That was right when I entered MIT. Now, four…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  I have a personal blog that I write about my teenagers and I haven’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it certainly isn’t…

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  The brass drops off, and suddenly you’re alone with the rhythm section. All eyes are on you, as you lift your instrument to your mouth. This is improvisation: there is…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  The first and most important rule of improv is this: don’t negate. To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that animates the sketch. When…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  So the other day I was reading an article on slashdot about Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into space with their own homemade rocket (from…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  Most of my conversations back home seem to begin with this question: “How was your first year at MIT?” After a billion failed attempts (most unsuccessful one: “It was great!”),…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  Happy Friday! Yes, that is an Oberlin College-produced parody of Rebecca Black. And yes, that is our former Communications Director Ben Jones costarring in it! I’ve been working all week…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  Hello MIT blogs! I love blogging. I applied to be a blogger on whim almost four years ago, and interestingly enough, I am the last guy that still seems to…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  As a news editor for The Tech, every couple weeks, I have the pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper’s office in the Student Center.…

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is Ben Jones’ famous “It’s More Than A Job” post from March 2006. I’ve read and re-read it so many…

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  As decision day draws nearer, “who” questions are taking priority. “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become if I get in? Who…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  There is much hullabaloo around campus here lately as everyone is buzzing with some exciting new information. Prof. Grimson, head of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department (or EECS…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  As someone whose idea of Friday night fun in high school involved (a) spending three hours with a bunch of other nerds and a stack of pizza boxes, writing search…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  Mashable is running a story today called New Facebook App Tells College Applicants What Their Chances Are. It’s created quite a buzz on different social network sites, and been syndicated…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., ’14, and I sat next to each…

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  When you last heard from me, I had just arrived at The Middle Of Nowhere, New Mexico – out on a Navajo Reservation. Did I mention that I don’t get…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  I recently saw a comic where a professor says “This is not the type of assignment you can do the night before,” to which a student proclaims “Challenge accepted…” Oh,…

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010