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  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  rather than through individual initiative on the part of the student, or ... the concept of students completing elaborate “paint by number ... out to be woefully short on substance.  I want to revisit and elaborate

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  good sense of humor. That way, when you smash into them in the hallway ... tuned me even more to the subtleties of what makes a good TA, though I would by no means put myself on the same standards of my brilliant

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  before. I was hoping fasting would bring me some sort of ease about what ... green single subject with the words “Questions of Life” written on the ... holes punched on the wrong side, or an extensive amount of my own writing

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  requirements of this class is to notice something new every day. we are learning ... , like many of you, i was waiting on college admissions decisions. today i ... you spent the past few years of your life is "good enough" or whether

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

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  2 layers of cling wrap on top of the table 3 layers of paper towel on ... and scuttlydoos got in the way of removing the carapace, so they were ... running 3 times as fast as a car on the highway. [caption id

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  technique used to reproduce the layout of colonies on one petri plate on a ... and way cooler, is this IAP in rifle. Rifle is one of three firearms ... with my glasses on. This time I aimed at the bottom of the bull’s eye, at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . Harvard, of words. Even PHIL 179 becomes HAA.2457 on my transcript. The MIT ... on Education, one of the requirements is classroom observation. Each ... is on their way to the World Solar Challenge in Australia! Support them

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the ... treasurer   The seniors of New House 4, where I lived for most of ... last EESA event of the semester. It's ironic, and in a way proves

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to ... on the idea of having the social robot play different NPC (non ... , the biggest criticism of saying that a robot has a beneficiary effect on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  again and again and again, for the rest of your life, as you enter new chapters and take on new responsibilities. A distinguished professor in my ... textbooks to brush up on things. One of my friends is mentoring students for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  possible opportunity, fun, or success. Ever. Good news: none of these will ... particularly helpful for passing the time on the morning of decision day. Have ... -n-slide. This was taken on one of our better days: What’s that in the corner

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  -to-back, is tiring. But each of the interviews felt good, in their own ways ... good kind of contagious In these challenging times The students are ... , I enjoyed it. And part of me thought that directing might be a good

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  pleasure of getting to know. Hope it provides some perspective from life on ... moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay ... student, you’re driven by the mentality of getting into a good school

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  on it. Sometimes may have been this whole weekend. Are we good ... of different ways over the past eight years and I feel so lucky to have ... saying that neither of you look good with facial hair. We were all thinking

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Nowhere, New Mexico - out on a Navajo Reservation. Did I mention that I ... 100% Navajo, and about a quarter of its students go on to graduate. Even ... flip a coin. What’s the probability of landing on heads?” Freshman: “I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  old iterations of the MIT Admissions website (back to pieces from 2000 ... current bloggers asking if anyone was on campus this summer and would like ... mission, as it were, was to dig through this mystery box of old DVDs, CDs

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  quite the case. (And of course, the jab above is all in good fun -- I have ... (oh, by the way: the first few weeks of freshman classes involve A Lot ... into a bit of a problem on Monday night. As I was cutting out the tines

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college ... posting on the College Confidential forums. Some of you have probably ... 's still one of the featured discussions on the MIT board. I wrote this both

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  on this. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi - This is one of those books ... intended to read this year: On the Way to a Smile and The Kids are Alright ... Japan, so I bought a copy of his new book when it came out. Unfortunately

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  for feedback. Work on the website began in the middle of week 2. A ... best if we focused on making the core features of the site as good as we ... . The way it works is that the first week is a bunch of lectures, starting

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020