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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  process, like anything else. You get up. You move on with your life. You ... --it’s difficult to see these things as positive, but it changes your perspective on ... record. I passed all my classes, and had fun learning and getting to know

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  arbitrary order and still confuse me from time to time. Sidequest 2: Get my ... (and still very shell shocked) to report that I’ll be working on the God ... of given up on this, because like the New Englander I am, I do have a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Time to Complete the MIT Midyear Report Applicants need to fill out the form on MyMIT by February 15th.

  

  Midyear Report serves two purposes: to get your updated grades since you ... serves two purposes: to provide your updated grades since you have applied, and to mention other updates since you submitted your application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  weeks back, and it was a great book -- put it on your summer reading list! ... & Humanistic Studies, appeared on The Colbert Report. Certainly Prof ... Fiction, but an appearance on Colbert is always... interesting. For those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  memory to brights is spending bits on information that your eyes won't use ... to your eye. Here's a visual example from this website (which I ... , which are horizontal on your screen. So, the red light that comes to meet

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions, Round Two What's going on in this picture?! Another installment of our new little game.

  

  Occasionally I'll show you a picture and give you some clues to see if you can figure out what's going on in the scene. Welcome to Round ... contains many secrets 2) A large noteboard 3) Daniel's index finger, which

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  getting industry experience in a field that you know you want to pursue, but maybe have not gotten the chance to get your foot in the door through the ... to try and fail. It did get frustrating at times, but overall, I still

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  you’re interested. Luckily, these restrictions don’t apply to on ... the class structure, but it also made me want to do something more hands-on ... the properties of things and how to engineer new materials with the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  ways to feel lost:" I feel lost on a much deeper level than ever before ... particularly new or unexpected, and anyone who knows me will be the first to roll ... here's a handy table of contents, feel free to skip around (though it

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  is $1.70 ea way on your CharlieCard, same as your ID that you’d use to ... they do, and/or possibly join, reach out to them on their website!) ... by stores designed to make you buy more than you came in to get. Make a

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  you a Blahaj enjoyer? Do you have a baby who wants to meet new shork ... brings Randomites and their Blahajs together to feast on cheese, crackers ... [/caption] But how did this shark plush get so popular? Blahaj’s rise to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  this information off the website. So if you want to know more, you should ... , though, is because I won the raffle :0 I guess as an incentive to get people to show up (or perhaps to get people to shut up, and actually listen

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  you to read ;) -Cam *footnote: word on the street is that we’re getting ... are likely the ones viewing MIT admissions on smartphones, to whom I say ... reasonable pixel density compared to your phones. Yeah, text

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  at MIT, I got to be Tim the Beaver.   Get to check that one off ... required “Tim training” and then take a comprehension quiz to verify your ... strapped to his chest. Then, before putting on Tim’s head, you have to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  functional enough to update! Ok, first things first: we have a new blogger ... 'll give you all a few days to work on it, then I'll tell you the funny story ... room, and every laptop has a browser open to either google

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  teammates about whatever I couldn’t figure out on my own. I started to get ... , got to know a new city, and relaxed to my heart's content. In fact, I ... to get practical experience in a software company before even having to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  same things, you can focus on the new stuff you have to make time for. 2 ... something else (use it as leverage to get a smartphone from your parents: "mom ... 'll be well on your way. 4) Find things to do in small blocks of time. Did

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Devoid of Content Well, mostly.

  

  This post is almost entirely devoid of content except to point out a ... struggle between bloggers and prefrosh over whether the "FIRST!" approach to ... irritating prefrosh last year so I go easy on you guys, but some old fogies try

  • by Snively '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  . Beth was about to finish her PhD and move on to a new position ... ;grad students” worked long hours and seemed to get cool results ... would have to create a module based on this paper by writing introductory

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  period of time, so I relied on things like xoxo.sh to meet new students and ... relationships can be attributed to me moving from doing classes on [annotation ... , and I feel like I have more independence to pursue things I enjoy on my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020