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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  't see you again for some time, but I thought I'd send a note anyway. It ... transcript of the video for those who might want it (I may have changed a word ... less romantic than it sounds. For the first time in my life, I'm hundreds

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• 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 ... I asked people around me for advice, tips, tricks, and things to know ... yes to most of them. Never say no, especially if it makes for a good

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  unedited (except for where I removed personally identifiable information at ... they had their own agenda for that year. I devoted my gap year mostly in reading, travelling and backpacking along North India for two months, and

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

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

  

  also got Facebook accounts for the first time. OK, enough about pre-2007 ... been waiting for? Bryan’s life after the blogs Big secret: I actually ... ice cream maker. As for what I’m up to right now: I am packing up that

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 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 ... ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the ... made out a detailed schedule for the week yesterday, so I already know

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  expired. I’d bought too many pairs in anticipation for college. {First ... alarms pre-set on my phone. I may need to awaken for lecture at 11:20, but ... to wear jeans. Nice things are for the early birds.   The easiest thing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  aid:a) Fill out the APPLICATION FOR FINANCIAL AID and send it directly ... , I stumbled into some accidental admissions archeology. For nearly a ... -ever admissions officer, Dr. James Libby Tryon.'] for as long as there had been an

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  This section is pretty much a catchall for all the miscellaneous things I ... ="107410" /] Storytime: So one of the TAs for 18.02A has a crazy response time. Like you can send him an email and get a reply in less than 5 minutes. So one

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  by the way passive mechanisms allow us to move about. For example, this ... reminds me of something David Foster Wallace wrote, which I can’t for the ... word was “nosy”), living for witnessing others’ moments. I hope I will

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  applying, about which colleges would be a good fit for me, and about which ... MIT and Caltech were far too nerdy for me, since the ultra-geek culture ... independently wealthy from Google's acquisition of their start-up. OK, that wasn

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  ;individual responsibility"—served as a preemptive warning for us to get our sh ... for kicks, let's revisit Junior Fall for a sec, and see how all that ... ;Register for the intensive German course at University of Zürich.  

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , especially. I don't actually have a plan for this, haha, so I will just draft ... for two degrees, took five classes for five semesters, four for two, and six for one. I think I am somewhat different from the "standard" MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  ,[/annotation] there wasn't a realistic way for me to continue to serve 30 hrs/week like ... -2025, MIT minimum wage for students is $15.00/hr. Unless otherwise specified ... UROP for their undergraduate research and I feel so unspecial

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  blue sky for walls, and in this space the three floors above us are ... naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very ... for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  selecting schools to send an application to easier. On Tuesday, the company is ... lists. The app asks students for their basic information: test scores ... customized equations for about 1,500 schools that it developed using the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  note="I’ve never turned my rambling not-intended-for-blog into blog ... that system but I didn’t. I liked physics C for itself but I also liked that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of

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

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

  

  to Alan and Vincent for reading drafts. This post is dedicated to MIT ... gut reactions were: Tinder for startups? Isn't that AngelList? Or YC Co-Founder Matching? A one-minute Google search brings up more: The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  Logic Unit for a 6.004 lab, after registers and stack pointers and opcodes ... was refreshing, and I’d been staring at my computer for the last… well ... let loose. It only lasted for a few chaotic seconds before I doubled

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  together. Whether you’ve decided to try to find a job, or apply for graduate ... in charge that you’re not just great, but also necessary. For some, of ... school for architecture or engineering, or maybe even writing, or a job at

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  .60 pset nights, so I had already worked on the pset for around 6 hours. On ... days all the more. Fridays, for instance, I only have one lecture at 10 AM, then I'm free for the rest of the day. Now, the last question

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005