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• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  understand the models that were at play behind the problems. Understanding ... . Lesson #2: Understanding the models at play and what tickles them was the ... it? And also to look at how the structure of the class I was taking was

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing at the University of Okoboji because I believe my writing will blossom at your program since it ... apply for the Master of Library Science program at the University of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  your academic abilities, at least as far as standardized testing goes. I ... hurt application or you won't even look at it since MIT asks for only 2 ... send anything you'd like to us at the address at the bottom of the screen

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  address an email to Stu Schmill, Director of the Educational Council, at ... a person working in the MIT admissions office at a recent college fair I was at, and asked him about my SAT scores. I had always heard that a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  ."]urgent[/annotation] to think about as I end my time at MIT and “move on” to the next phase ... and come back at a later time”. you can read this post even if you don ... bigger hit than “Cooler than Me” (at the time of this post, 1.3 billion

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  addition to more large-scale happenings at the List Center for the Arts, the ... exhibition preview feb 12; by Pedro Gómez-Egaña; at the List Center As part of ... influenced games, digital culture, and the world at large. I’m really

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  a major at MIT my freshman year, I had come to believe that precision ... it did.  At the end of my freshman year at MIT, I declared brain and ... going to learn anything at all? And that scared the crap out of me – the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  arrival of me and Colin, a PhD student also teaching at Shoqan. We went ... introducing our roles at Shoqan. [caption id="attachment_112121" align ... ![/caption] [caption id="attachment_112120" align="aligncenter" width="768"] the cafe at

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  using small sticks and soft sweets. They have this game every year at MARC ... table's house was not the tallest, but it was sure fun to build. At the ... reasons why it's so great to learn about computers at MIT – because a lot of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  lecturer. 6.2050 was one of the most demanding classes I’ve taken at MIT ... already so powerful, so why even bother using FPGAs at all? To answer those ... ’re using to read this post works. At the heart of any general

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for ... keep poking at it anyways... I took a robotics class last semester that ... (at least for me) OX'ing a class at the end of a semester exists as a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  a few weeks ago i had a job interview. we had some extra time at the ... at hacklodge, a one-week program where ~20 college students live in a ... probably turn out alright one of the mentors at hacklodge, let’s call him c

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  the student community at MIT. I didn’t expect to spend so much time on ... . We met at a local café within walking distance of campus and my home in ... hear about how well she was doing at MIT, especially given that the first

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  Bowie, a postdoc at my lab suggested. Another postdoc brought up a video ... was also when I realized that I can be real bad at asking for help ... hadn’t asked him to. Could he hammer it on my project? Looking at the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  impossible to think, or to make any useful decisions at all. I wake up and feel ... for the first time,[/annotation] in my sixth semester here at MIT, and ... at zero bandwidth?  The answer is certainly not schoolwork. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  , since I didn't know anything about French history at the time, or which ... at 9 am.  We're starting with the Enlightenment, which is this era in ... are the days when you could balance pencils at certain angles and drop

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  part of my first semester at the institute: 7 classes passed Somehow ... Management), and 14.009 (Intro to Economics in Society). At the beginning of ... screamed at me when I was not taking notes that it was because of kids like

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  that are stuck on the board, or no longer erases well at all — when ... that hadn't been erased for at least two years — now, it works just fine ... how effective this technique is, take a look at these before

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  who loves hiking, I was stoked. I coerced my boyfriend to wake up at 3 ... hours of sleep, the scenery at Glacier National Park almost brought me to ... was worth it. So we slapped it onto our itinerary and started hiking at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a ... house sucks? What if you have to stay at home with your family?!? Me ... ’t taken it yet, or even studied at all! It’s going to be so much work, and

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020