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• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  a nice way to get outside, get some exercise, and get to places, but I ... rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of ... in the greater Boston area by far - and picked up a nice, simple

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  China in June, UROPing in Boston with a surprise stint at some Google ... construct a paper airplane that he can throw from MIT and have it land accurately in Harvard Square. His lab has already made a paper airplane that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  T. ‘08 (“I don’t think it was from anything specific, just a Google ... .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a ... whale. A closer survey, perhaps with a telescope, reveals some

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  :30-9:10 -- Check CC, everybody's blogs, Google News, and a bunch of Live ... (This seemed like a really good idea for an entry when I was on my ... prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  ’t understand (and can’t easily clarify for yourself with a quick google search ... sense at the moment. A lot of items contradict each other. Here is the ... chances of remembering them later. Take selfies with people as a way to get

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  I recently saw a comic where a professor says "This is not the type of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... (yes, I might give you a campus tour!), I sometimes get asked about the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  reasons. With a little googling, you may even be able to find some of my ... the series’ 10-year run, a spinoff began following Matt LeBlanc as Joey ... a tear that I’m no longer young.) In 2004, the MIT admissions blogs

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for ... , so I missed a good deal before and after winter break. I wrote and ... write a book, dash out ten pages of nonsense fantasy fiction, and promptly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  poverty. A quick google search of her name brings many articles listing the ... dumped all my bookmarked links in a google doc and shared it with her. A ... A few weeks ago, I stumbled across a Twitter thread describing the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  Do you have trouble writing? Does it feel like a daunting ... you're writing a report, and feel completely productive and proud of ... definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  Like most MIT students, I was aware when I applied that I was a highly competitive applicant. I had taken several AP classes, I had a perfect GPA, my interviewer loved me, I had founded a few clubs, and my test

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  bed and get ready for work. It takes a long time. I am not what one ... made out a detailed schedule for the week yesterday, so I already know ... waterbath and grab a bucket of ice. 9:10 AM. My postdoc and I discuss the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  .[/annotation] I’m going to do a lot of googling to understand how the circuits work ... not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out. Apparently I had a lot of thoughts. Now I’m curating them into something that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  Co-Founder Matching? A one-minute Google search brings up more: The ... published a book named "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and ... 's a pretty popular book. Someone made a joke, suggesting that this book

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the different paths our lives can take. One of them was from a student whom we denied five years ago. He and I had emailed a bit when he was denied, but I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  internships during the school year is quite nearly a full-time job. And just like applying to colleges, you have to apply to a whole bunch of jobs because the application process can be somewhat of a crapshoot. I'll add a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  plan to not have spring break plans, but I feel like I have a lot of ... been pretty nice and relaxing to have a chunk of time to myself. Incidentally, there are a lot of great concerts happening in Boston this week, so

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since ... about what I wanted to say. When I was a freshman, I wrote two posts about ... fullness. Now that I’m (fortunately!) doing a lot better, I remember only the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  Googled and used to customize my Tumblr theme, not a tiny piece of a huge ... of a sudden you imagine competing with these people for a spot in a university. There is a ridiculous amount of pressure from both adults and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  had a Google Calendar (and I still don't use any form of electronic ... After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT ... of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011