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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  ) symmetries of the hydrogen atom, using just symmetry and algebra of groups to ... close to the waves that time) and sand all between its pages. Aside from ... a 10-page term paper on Julius Caesar due this past Monday (the sort

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008
• 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 / 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

  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 / 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
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  exhausting stairs? I know that I don’t remember the first five minutes of ... pictures of the places that were memorable to me in some way. Eighteen months ... than that was the emptiness of it all: lobby 10, 26-100, banana lounge

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  Graduate School of Education released a report entitled “Turning the Tide ... 100 of my admissions colleagues at colleges around the country. I think ... the joy of learning. We don’t want a laundry list of a million

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  Like many of you, I stayed up quite late watching the election ... , including the Tremulant concert at TT the Bear's Place (one of the many, many awesome live music venues within a short walk of MIT), the Kerry goings on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  more than a week's worth of food. The first thing I made was tomatoes ... from the shackles and am finally cooking for myself again. The first ... one. We love rice cookers here in the blogs, and for good reason. First

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  flurry of moths, freed from the beacon that had attracted them, flew off ... .. - - - First, an explanation of who I am and why I’m posting on Anna’s blog. I ... middle of the woods in Vermont (yes, I wear flannel and do square dancing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  My first reaction to the ridiculously ridiculous airline adventure I ... contradicts the previous one. I'm sick of being offered a limited-offer discounted hotel room when this whole mess is your fault. (And don't blame the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  I can’t believe it’s been a year since I first delved into the MIT ... three days felt like the longest three days of my life. My total sleep ... hugged me on sight, and I remember the utter feeling of overwhelming joy as

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  ; the parental disapproval honestly kind of added to the whole experience ... a symbol of my individuality. They're a celebration the independence I ... . They're also the beginning of when I began applying "ask for forgiveness

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  end of the first marking period, or wait until the end of January as ... school, Java counts as Math credit, but I was wondering if the lack of ... Year Grade Report it says to return the form at the end of the second

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006