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• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  . To be honest, I don't think I'm a particularly good TA, but we ... —organizational systems to manage it. Making Sure I Don't Die: Google Calendar + Todoist ... ."]I don't forget anything.[/annotation] This is what a typical week might

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  like "if you don't understand the wording, that probably means you don't ... the past to make decisions?" and I don't think I really do...? 13 ... impersonally using minimal effort. - Not Me Wording + I don't believe in solving

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  I’ve never really done a year-ender blog post, and I don’t really ... : there are a lot of times where i dont feel like im at all living up to ... eye and smile. but don't tell him you've been moisturizing with Dove

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  --just standing, or sitting, or doing work. They don’t simply feel unable to feel ... substances by her condition. I realized that, though fortunately I don’t feel ... excitable little girl. My father told me all at once over the phone, and I don’t

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  part. You may now read the book (or this blog post, rather. I don’t know ... when I don’t seem to have any free time. However, for those who are ... came over and said “Hey, why don’t you try walking upside down?” And

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  (although there are a few that don't participate). July-August between junior ... don’t claim to be an expert at essay writing by any means, but I mean ... !!, TEAMWORK!!!, and ADVERSITY!!!! So don’t be surprised when they appear

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  you don't miss a thing (I actually did that) - but relax! Take advantage ... that we could, and I don't regret it one bit. But your body is different ... can feel more prepared for your freshmen year, but don't spend all your

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  summary with a few screen shots instead. I don't want the admissions officer ... supplementary recommendation, but I don't think it will be ready by January 1st ... unless I order a rush report I don't think it'll get sent by the deadline

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  usually use. So don't look at the rest of the entry if you're on a dialup ... combination of yuck yuck and gross," and I don't know that I can really improve ... gonna kill you. I don't know what all we spent all our money on, but it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  reasons, legal, cultural, and otherwise, many students don't work, and that ... father is unwilling to cooperate. Don't worry, our Financial Aid Office ... to say that we don't make decisions based on test scores, and that we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  in a precomputed table. For jumping pieces, this is easy since we don't ... possible squares that we can move to. We don't want to attack our own pieces ... don't attack our own team moves &= !MY_PIECES //Notice the use of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  , these definitions and tools don’t really capture the true essence of what ... ). Here at MIT, we don't refer to rural as "everything else that is left ... and your cousin’s basketball coach. Where you don't have AP courses, and

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  digits of pi? Or maybe there's a mysterious tradition that even I don't ... I don’t think I can handle anything Pi Day-related. We’re all headed ... don’t get oxygen until the troposphere… hmm. How light can I get the

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• 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)

  

  friends objected. “Don’t people drive on the left side of the street in ... in English. “Yeah, but what about the states that don’t?” To my ... markings indicated only a single lane. And don't even get me started on how

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

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

   have to get to the airport now. I don't want to give up. I have a fire in my ... of you. Moral of the story: Don't try to run to the airport, or to any

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  happens when, in the middle of everything we could’ve ever wanted, we don’t ... ." - Gloria   My beige flag is that I don’t really move on from things ... equal.  While at MIT, I hope that I don’t treat it as a landscape where

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  especially in school you don't have real feedback loops on your learning, or at ... since I don't need this class for anything, I should only take it if the ... called invariants. Invariants are properties that don't change under a

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  post. Not exactly the best way to start the semester… But don’t worry ... RNA vaccines within a century. Don’t underestimate the power of music In ... better than taking the stairs. MIT’s policies don’t care if you’re sick In

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  myself "surely mathematicians don't sit in their offices all day ... questions was frankly a bit of a shock. And don't get me wrong, calculus is ... (JMM). For those who don't know (and to be completely fair, I didn't know

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  a four week period in January where students don't have traditionally ... research fields and don't involve a lot of coding in my experience. I picked ... 2024. Realistically, I don't think I'll be able to practice daily, but I

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024