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• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  "treadmill" that MIT can be: Sometimes it's hard to take a step back. This is ... treadmill" is the straightest path through MIT. It means doing the basic classes that everyone takes, not doing anything but your classes, doing all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Comics for IAP Doonesbury takes on the 6.270 Autonomous Robot Design Competition.

  

  A few weeks back, MIT's most famous fictitious current student, Alex Doonesbury '10, had an exciting IAP, doing the 6.270 Autonomous Robot Design Competition (not to mention Palmistry, Advanced Sudoku, a chocolate workshop

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Candyland @ MIT Not your average gingerbread houses!

  

  My dorm’s study break tonight consisted of a Gingerbread House Making Contest. Armed with candy, graham crackers, frosting, and ingenuity, seven ... , three teams decided to model MIT buildings. Check it out, who do you think

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions & Coca-Cola Check-in Last-minute questions, and Coca-Cola Scholars check-in.

  

  With CPW less than a day away, I'd like to use the comments for this ... do this in Mollie's latest entry). Students who have to miss CPW for ... there get a chance to connect!).

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I AM SO BUSY

  

  But I still went downtown to fetch a fresh fruit eclair. (Sorry for shouting.) Someone asked what I'm doing for spring break. I'm going to ... Sweden to Abisko. Should be a lot of fun, and I promise to post pictures

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  from high school Health) - DENIAL: "No this CANNOT be happening to a Mac. I have a Macbook Pro for goodness' sakes!!" ANGER: "What do you mean you can't fix it? Do you really work for the Apple Store?" BARGAINING

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  doing/did: joined an acapella group! (coming soon to a blog post near ... impossible right now. Life is now mostly a choice of how to spend my time the ... decided to skip 18.022 lecture on a whim to go to CVS with my friend to pick

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  something on the admissions website about a Maker Portfolio and got nervous ... have been actively building up a portfolio of technically creative stuff ... scary and a lot to ask of a teen whose brain is not yet fully developed

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  and doing other cool things, I spend every day staring a pool after pool ... down the last 3 feet of the slide and crash into a continuous white spray ... . But given the speed of the water coming down a slide and the speed of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  like the surprise when I tell people I'm doing a calendar called Ben ... (with a view of the Great Dome), a lecture hall, an MIT professor's office, a reading room where people study, and a sailboat on the Charles River

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  essays. This means to spend a lot of time thinking about why you do the ... my Algebra 2 teacher’s recommendation. It was simply a better school ... deadline, I encourage you to spend a lot of introspective time. This doesn

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  cheerleading and research?" I do have a paper which is currently in revision for ... -graduate-student perspective that I never would have thought of a few years ago. Two weekends ago at UCLA's interview weekend, I was lucky to have a faculty member tell

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  , but I am confused about your title "Tecker." My son is on a trip with ... for something I don't understand or do you mean "Techer" as in technology?" Here's the story: I went to a school called High Technology High

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  , you can declare "undeclared", but most people do make at least a ... ), all you need to do is fill out a form and get it signed. Basically ... finding a subject interesting, and actually wanting to do it; research, for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a driver, I’m a winner Things are gonna change, I can feel it.

  

  doing now that I've won this most presitigious of awards? Sitting in lab

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  some reason, the thought felt so novel. I had a choice of what I could do ... doing something deeply and getting a lot of experience with one thing. We ... consciously think that. It’s not that I think, yeah, I want to do a software

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  current bloggers do a Q&A session with the incoming class. We just sort ... humanities, do you really have to learn major numbers” (answers: a zillion ... can honestly say that I do not believe there is not a better position to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  feel like a wound that will never heal.   the problem— grief goes hand in hand with being a hopeless romantic. always mourning a ... around it, uneasily, like you're staring down a lion in a cage. (you carry

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  managed to do a great run-through under such circumstances, the content of ... . As a result, all campus events, shows, concerts, etc. are no longer ... activities very sadly could not come to full fruition. But as a last ditch

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  burning out past the finish line

  

  lots of things i could be doing and i am not doing any of them because i ... through wikipedia pages and getting information and not doing anything with ... going out (not with a bang but with a whimper)

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2023