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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  extra spots on the map. We saw a lot of stuff -- took the metro to ... more on Dheera's website) In my transportation seminar, we ... When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering

  

  Science and Engineering. According to its website: Climate change is the ... year the MIT faculty authorized another new interdisciplinary major ... adapting to climate change require an understanding of both the Earth system

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  , texting people if they want to get lunch or go grocery shopping once they ... everywhere and lashing out to try and blame it all on something, anything — but ... taking me to the new mccormick basement gym and i showed them my dorm and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool new ... weightlifting (more on this later) it is time for those of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage with the world https://www.youtube

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  " you get to do to keep your life functioning. Things like, making sure to ... -time employee is time. As a student, depending on what you're involved in, you can ... average amount of time, and enough discipline to get my work done, but not

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  undergrad; you can read more about the group on their website. my project is ... asking a bunch of people what the color of each ball is to get a consensus ... seem absurd at first glance and obvious in hindsight, so you get used to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  way to turn in your life.” i am an advanced squirrel working on a ... , struggling to decide on a fig to pick, while all the figs wither away. it is ... to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  one day on your schedule to the next, and the next, and the next, until ... , and I really enjoy just getting up on a Saturday morning and doing as ... from an image without disturbing the actual content, leading to much

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  -written. Two of the forthcoming entries will introduce you to two new additions ... 't get to do a Questions Omnibus before I left, but I promise to do one ... . Nominally, the purpose of the trip is to be in Malaysia for a (Malay) friend

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  . Content caters in large part to the demands of the audience, who can email ... brainstormed on how to take that energy and translate it to the rest of MyMIT, as ... seemed to get more and more popular. And then, one day, I stumbled upon

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  amazing ability to turn genes on and off at their whim. I used RNAi during ... it was 364.4 smoots + 1 ear long. Google even considers the Smoot to be ... on Friday. What's a girl to do? So, here it is: It doesn't really

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  are on the 4th page and the last page to verify that everything is "true ... between high school and college. More to come on these topics later ... 700s I got on the sciences), would it make sense to take it?" No

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  see your name in print.     On Friday I flew to DC for a ... summer is a key time for us to travel, work on dormant projects, and take ... food poisoning or stomach bug that manifest on the flight over, so had to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  simple: that getting off social media on your own, reducing social media ... changing their mind on something and then being reluctant to change their ... okay to change your mind. it is okay to change your mind twice. it is

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  I wasn’t about to let anything get in the way of my Acadia trip ... excuses, and this Thanksgiving trip was the catalyst I needed to get started ... having to carry my passport and risk losing it. I was going to live in New

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  money that I didn't get Lollapalooza tickets, but that they had put me on ... probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into ... as productive as possible, I hate the idea of not being able to do

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  if you're closed off. If you need to get a job, find something that ... half of your class at some point in the next four years. Get used to it ... something to have good perspective, rely on your friends to help you. Eat

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  make a website or add-on to make life at MIT easier, like Courseroad or ... .9000/intro to linguistics. I wasn't really thinking specifically about getting ... semester, I get to work with the Language Acquisition Lab. The Lab looks at

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  : Residential System: choosing my living group based on cultural fit allowed me to ... , became home. It’s still listed as Home in my Google Maps, and it hurts to change that. Pretty incredible to have most of your friends also be your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  percentage to like, 75% on its own. But I do feel shitty and sad about getting ... was, so I can't quite give myself 100% on this. Sidequest 2: Get my ... the sailing class next semester, so maybe I'll get this to 50% before I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019