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• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  waiting for wifi access (especially on a retreat day where I was supposed to ... fact, it might even be a good idea to work ahead on schoolwork ... last year, so decisions came out at something like 9:30 AM on a Saturday

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  early to check the website and see if any MIT folks won. I have to be ... decided today to sleep in and not check on the Chemistry prize. Big mistake ... compared to a dance in which the couples change partners. Metathesis is used

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  skipped than to pick up other new material, like a programming language. I ... want to also talk a little about my experience being Course 18 and how it ... has been firmly on the pure math track for a few years and who hasn

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  : Yeah. Because I kept finding that new thing to work on. There's so many ... 've been here for more than a month, I wanted to check in and find out how ... too. Why did you decide to do a master's? Xian: The main reason is that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  candidates. Bloggers are expected to blog at least twice a month. New ... the admissions office during normal business hours, to a) help new ... and I send to all the new bloggers during blogger training: The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  .Information from the UAAP.Information about housing and the housing lottery.A to ... .Feel free to choose something with some personality, if you like!A couple ways ... "locker") and a website at http://www.mit.edu/~yourusername.And, of course

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choose my Halloween Costume!

  

  waiting for Prince Charming's white horse to get in gear) - a witch (even ... Okay guys, here's the deal...Halloween is quickly approaching, and I have no idea what to dress up as. In fact, I haven't actually dressed up

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  tactfully ask him to let her focus on her busy career and academic life for a ... get a job to help pay for school, on top of doing a lot of great things ... actually think a lot of people take on, intentionally, more than they have to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  'm really unsure how to deal with it. I think part of it is because I'm a ... writing. But I realize I also have a duty to serve and really when I applied to be a blogger, I entered with this mindset of really digging into

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  'm really happy that they took the time to read and comment on it; a few ... of my life on Snapchat in a desperate attempt to seek validation. In ... period of time, so I relied on things like xoxo.sh to meet new students and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  daugther, Sarah, also a senior, along on the trip to Endicott College. We ... -win team behind a new no-huddle offense and a line that lost two starters to ... he was a junior. As soon as I saw him, I went to the web for a look at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  that each September I seemed to get acclimatized more quickly: the ... to have brunch at Hillel, and afterwards I walked back to EC with a ... ! (Note: this is a long list; feel free to skim if your interest wanes

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  waking up in the morning after a terribly stressful week to a new hack by ... soon.  Therefore, on my way to get Frozen Yogurt on Saturday, I was super ... on our way to get Frozen Yogurt, we came across the actual battle scene

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  A Year away from home An intro video rant to my time in China

  

  Lunar New Year!!! I finally made it around to making this video about my ... much practice I need to do. I spent a good amount of time trying to figure out what was the best way to make this video, and settled on doing

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 5, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  3 / A team effort Roll Tech: Your newest Intercollegiate High Team silver medalists!

  

  course, I also spent a good chunk of time in lab working on my final ... for an away competition!"]a record 7 of us[/annotation] on the MIT Figure Skating Team embarked on a [annotation note="Massachusetts ->

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 12, 2018
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  think you have an answer to a puzzle, you fill out a little form on the official Hunt website, and they call you to check your answer. As the ... to keep track of who's working on which puzzle, where they are, how

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  me to do the session there since I ate quite a few meals in that same room as a student, especially on weekends when the Baker dining hall was ... however get to give to those 250 lucky (?) people in my session a preview of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  being able to do physics so quickly that he is a veritable blur. This was ... physics psets which I'm just a little psyched about. So to share my ... Special Relativity with a brief intro to General Relativity is 1) a physics

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  , or deciding how to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you ... " in the admissions office during normal business hours, to a) help new ... blogger training manual that Lydia and I send to all the new bloggers during

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  , you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say ... were a professor asking this difficult question to a group of incoming MIT freshmen for them to answer in a single semester: “How would you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012