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  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  at MIT. Why was he responding to this email thread? And why was he on ... blogger himself during his time at MIT!!! How cool is that? You all should ... grad student!) at MIT. So naturally, we had to do a blog post together

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  began working at MIT, my then-girlfriend was a student intern at a free ... was also one of the toughest for me to master, when I did improv at ... . Looking at my (eight different color-coded) Google Calendar(s), I notice now

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

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  on embedded systems, specifically looking at connected devices ... probably my favorite lecturer at MIT so far, even though I've only taken, like, 10 classes at MIT."]Joe Steinmeyer.[/annotation] This blogpost

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  . It's an issue at the intersection of other excellent posts that folks ... question is not hidden within it at all, but barely-veiled, an unstated ... at MIT. Now obviously "preparation" is in some sense a range. You can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• 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 ... Stellar, each class has a page with things like assignment files and grades ... , I like the name "Interstellar" a lot. So many of the things we use at

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  Campus preview weekend (CPW) at MIT is just what it sounds like ... self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of ... , at least there were always interesting things to do and think about

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  Every time I look at the faces of younger MIT students, especially ... things I would do if I could do MIT all over again. In my four years at ... (and no, I'm not at all Latina lol) by cooking with Spanish House which

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  to have adjusted some internal excit-o-meter. So in the days leading up ... hanging from a window and half a dozen people leaning out and waving at us ... at them. This is supposed to remind us that we'll get through MIT

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  perpetuates the technical bias pervasive at MIT that the value of a field of ... entire list of faculty members added to the display is included at the end ... , lecturer, or affiliate on the chalkboard or print out a page yourself and add

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  just go to the MIT home page, click on academics, and then read through ... always no. (You can direct that stuff to admissions at mit dot edu.) 5 ... 'm doomed to work at mcdonald's for the rest of my life what should I do

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  ’s passion. And yes, that stuff really does drip off the page in the best of ... people who wholly deserve to be at MIT – folks who are passionate, who love ... reflection on you. At all. Accepted, deferred, or otherwise – you are all

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  I'm sitting at the kitchen table in my London flat; my sister Lisa ... blog for MIT admissions while actually at MIT...) I write much more ... New Mexico at a six-week astrophysics program for High School students

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , and even more at MIT as an undergrad (many for studying/academic reasons ... looking at a computer, I'd be spending even more trying to read tiny essays (I'm lookin at you, word-limit violators!), handwritten recommendations

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  furiously. I had a deadline at 5 pm for my Economics of Health class essay, so ... claps of thunder. I looked up at the sky and it was greyer than usual and ... ’t believe what I was looking at. It was one of those catatonic moments, when

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  media studies, at just about 50 pages of double-spaced garamond, was the ... 'll start work at mit lincoln laboratory next may, and then i'll do the whole ... last few weeks of my last semester at mit were more of a slow burn than a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  Sublime Text, trying to hammer out code. Hours staring at my text editor ... don’t immediately start the day at 100%, nor am I able to do work up to ... to sleep at 3 and wake up at 11. My lunch and dinner times vary, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  apparatus is that if you spin a mother around in a circle with her head at the ... official website, and here's the Wikipedia page. This year, the Ig Nobel ... by a Q&A session) at MIT, in 26-100 (I sit through biology lecture

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  far away, because looks at all these new experiences you've had. The new ... after graduating and dumping all of it into clumsy stupid words on a page

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

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  Amherst or to see my girlfriend in Northampton. At the time, it seemed like ... about 35-40 minutes of a workout in the morning and afternoon. I arrive at ... - and much, much less expensive. And as long as I shower at the Z Center

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  sustainingly intriguing enough major at MIT or elsewhere. b) If there is such a ... away from school, especially at dinners with family friends that ... to the general college applicant. At the same time, though, we aim to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008