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• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  schedule at all, and then trying to fix that by listening to the advice of ... consider them in any deliberate construction of a sleep schedule. The social isolation, on the other hand, has honestly been kind of nice. I know I shouldn

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  essential. the first few months form the basis for the rest of your experience ... later, in an ironic (and quite sad) twist of fate, I broke the November ... ="exactly 2 years ago to this day. i am the master of eerie timing"]month into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  It's Sunday. I've had a particularly draining week. For the sake of journaling, here are some of the lowlights. I dropped 6.0002. Actually ... seminars to attend. It all takes time. That's part of the reason I dropped 6

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  small wins early. Instead of the whole nuclear reactor, is there a ... jump into a field 70-80% of the market is chasing the current fad.  This ... that the rest of the world is missing.  Sam says that very few founders

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  list of programs (not including the ones you get from MIT for free) that you should download and test out in your first few weeks of college. I ... , you also get Spotify Premium at the discounted rate of $4.99. Available

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  Naptha trending the front page. I've blogged a couple of times already about hackathons at MIT and how amazing they are in the amount of experience, learning, and motivation they can give you in the space of ten or

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Beaverheimer (Pi Day 2024) 3/14/24 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  note="which will take somewhere between 80 and 90 hours"]the entirety of ... .mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s where you’ve been able to ... .mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In, then click “Forgot Your Password?” and follow

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  backseat to the other things in my life. in my mind blogging is either one of ... of the ideas from this post: what if i don’t want to feel better? what ... it's kind of scary, really, because wow, maybe this is the version of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  rendition of Auld Lang Syne. And then the whole theater had linked arms and ... people in watching the broadcast of another rendition of Auld Lang Syne ... quarter of a million people were packed shoulder-to-shoulder by the Thames

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  another plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft in the first week of school, and then write about it. And here we are, in the fourth ... immediately bought the making-of book, already dreaming about all the things I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  first few weeks of the second semester, I went there at least three times ... spring, I went through my journal and picked out some of the memories and experiences that stand out to me. I present to you a brief highlight of the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  replacement cap or even a replacement bottle of the exact model so that I could ... great height of three feet and the lid broke. I could just use one of my ... bottle cap AGAIN in the exact same place last week. It was on the ledge of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  rejected from Company A during the first week of IAP, and spent the entirety ... first day of school, smack in the middle of my 7-10 class, I got rejected ... for the rest of my MIT career, honestly) because I'm finally done with

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  our applicants:  We will not require the SAT or the ACT from first ... note='As I wrote last year, despite the limitations of these exams, our ... their personal health, as well as the health of their family and community

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  : [/annotation] 6.036 (Intro to Machine Learning, 12 units): One of the first ... of term. I learn how to pronounce “yacht” correctly for the first time ... , and I don’t think about the three whole paragraphs of hell that I just

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  I’ve been breaking the monotony of quarantine and wearing pajamas all day by doing new things! I’ve wanted to try many of the things listed ... showed as purple. The downside was that there was a lot of transfer; my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  far, it's pretty awesome. It's one of the few classes where I really ... ," and feeling all enlightened and such. Part of this is because the class ... documented some of the sleepless night I spent the other day working on what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  way from the ever-changing home page of today. But it's better than some ... up a heaping dose of pain in the form of academic expectations. If you ever want to know the surface area of a golf ball with radius 3cm covered

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  schools. Incidentally, when I Googled my name the first page of results ... because on the rare occasions I visit it, so much of what's on it makes me angry or sad. A bunch of the parents were very skeptical that you don

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  : Midterms really don't equate too much in the grand scheme of things. Work ... without office hours or the help of others. You'll end up spending twelve ... bed. So don't work in bed, there's a whole campus full of great study

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019