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  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  should I do in order to know MIT better?" A great starting point for how ... Emeritus Mollie posted this helpful and interesting post to a discussion board recently; it is such a good start to answering your question that I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  Yesterday evening I came back from work to discover my friend Kim, a ... (which was her room when I was a frosh). The room should have not only been primered, but painted, a while ago, but I am a horrible and inexperienced

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  the topics that seemed to be the easiest to write about was a recap of ... a long blog about both, but I felt it would be better to ... overall, the semester was a bit smoother than the pot-hole filled ride I was

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  challenging classes I’ve ever taken. It’s a natural followup to MIT ... processing power, limited running time, limited accuracy. As a simple example, which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  are some more updates on my travels thus far (I made it a "supersize ... rent a car from the local Budget office. Unfortunately, the only type of car they have is a PT Cruiser - which, although I'm not a huge fan of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  officially less than 4 days (OHMYGODDECISIONZ), over a 1000 of you will be ... with the phrase "On A Farm," which is connected to a bunch of boxes ... 's the game with a couple of solutions in it: Following? Okay, the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done ... sorry for her disappointment but sure she would be a fantastic student at ... I was right. A few weeks ago, I got this: Hi Chris, I hope this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  Read Read Read Read Read Read Write Such is the life of a HASS major ... idea, there is a way to fail. There are readings that illuminate ... entirely by chance. I’m certainly not a Philosophy (Course 24) major, but so

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  became friends with a bunch of theatre kids and was thrown into their world as a set designer for my sophomore fall production of The Crucible, and ... I learned about student rush. It operates a bit differently based on

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found myself having a lot to say about the impact those classes have had on how I ... hadn’t really considered math as a subject in its own right, outside of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  It's been a long time since my last Q&A post - sorry for the delay ... ? It's always a good idea to contact the coach for your sport if you are ... demonstrate a strong passion or proficiency in something - playing a sport won

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  * This is a Goodbye Post * I've always liked the 4th of July. I like fireworks. (Although a couple years ago I had a friend that kind of ruined it for me by pointing out that fireworks are a celebratory

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  the next fourteen days, I have two midterms, three group projects and a ... and as my time as a blogger comes close to an end, I'm hoping I can get through a big chunk of my ever-growing list of blog posts to write. Today, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  Today, I'm back in the office (but only for a day) after doing three college fairs in New York City this past week. It was a fun week! First was ... classroom to which MIT was assigned. Next door was a nice colleague from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  Before we begin, a word of warning. This blog post is not representative of the schedule of a typical MIT student, nor should it be. It is ... -front about it as well. Without further ado, here is a recipe to make yourself

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  mean you should take your own notes, but a TA is actually taking all the ... this, a lot of the stuff I feel like I should takes notes on are ... of doing it logically by introducing a definition as it comes up in the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  . I will try my best to keep this short, as I'm sure this is a sensitive ... vulnerability and sharing that part of yourself. College admissions is a volatile ... same people that attend that school, almost hypocritical in a way. What

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  time, I didn’t really know what it meant to have a job in robotics. I ... professions that are far removed from STEM. My mother has a small business doing tax and accounting, and she served a bunch of other small businesses in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  I spent this summer in a relatively “chill” state. My UROP that I did ... doing things well to try to get a return offer, I could essentially focus on trying to do a single thing: the work that I was assigned. Summer

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  MIT so far. I know the future only has a lot more of these in store, but ... had a relatively rough high school career and I really wasn't sure how I ... comfortable around my peers. I didn't really know if I was going to find a group

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019