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• Blog / Blog Projects

  hello, after six years

  

  i have been here and there, the last six years. i think a lot of ... . like how to play a game where i try to escape from hell, and how to play ... -flying) animals. the ones that can't fly are still this type of animal. this is a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  . At the same time, I care about what’s happening back at home. Just a ... House of Representatives, and they went through the readings like it was a farce. It basically allows a government-appointed council to detain a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  them know how we’re doing now that the semester is over, a text message sent to a relative wishing them a happy birthday! or a congrats on graduating!, a funny tweet sent to a friend, or a tag on MIT Confessions. On

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  ahead of my peers, so this came as a disappointment. I resolved to take 6 ... actually not required for the computer science major, and I was a comp sci ... either. Instead, I took 6.042, a discrete math class. Sophomore fall

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  When it comes to MIT you can put everything you do into one of two ... 't mutually exclusive (programming is fun, amiright?), they do at times hinder ... semester is a time to make that daily fire hose drinking session a little bit

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  decisions, we utilize a wide range of sources to help confirm and validate our ... that it frequently seems to be part of a continuous feedback loop. Allow me to explain. In a selective, competitive, holistic, merit

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  to-do list." This time, I haven't written for a week an a half ... . Since then, I've spent the past week and a half doing pretty much nothing ... fun, this week of doing mostly nothing. But it is getting a little

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Deep Breath Before the Plunge THIS IS . . . wait, this isn't Sparta. Wha-? Aw, shoot, I took a…

  

  move. While it only takes 2 minutes a day to do this, you can get as ... wished that somehow all of those games were combined into one? A little less than a week ago everybody on campus was sent an e-mail like this

  • by Snively '11
  • March 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  comments, please leave more of your thoughts from the Parties, or drop me a ... been my first choice for most of high school, but for a brief period of ... top choice, and a couple of days after receiving my acceptance to MIT, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  a giant postal tube, but it's still an exciting thing. ARE you excited? How excited? How did you react when you found out you were going to be a ... a month. I was barely reading the blogs, just trying to get two

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  denizens, is that we get up to such interesting things! For example, a few nights ago, we went on a skinny-dipping expedition to the famous Walden ... quite useful to carry a flashlight and multitool at MIT - it's a bit of a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  The other day, Katharine wrote: Matt, I have a question/concern. It ... I do relatively well in just about all my classes. My interests are ... chooses a major at the end of freshman year.* *n.b. Actually, you need not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  applications, sitting on the admissions committee, or [annotation note="In a typical year, that is."]doing recruitment travel,[/annotation]I am ... student packages, and producing a slew of miscellaneous materials

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  to mit. how do i cope with impostor syndrome?? And a lot of things ... , you can do the same. Coming from a cutthroat competitive high school ... this? During this time, I've been able to talk and spend a lot of time

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  't know what's going on because you slept through a lecture or you didn't do ... - I really do mean it. A case in point: last semester, Melis and I ended ... the fact that I was taking classes I was genuinely interested in, plus a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  . How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then ... ?'” (DFW went on to deliver a timeless and celebrated address that is well ... that a) applicants simply don’t understand what information we are

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  Hi blog readers! It's been a few months since I've graduated, a time ... problems (my laptop's motherboard has a burn mark??) and vegetating, so ... have What I do for fun Food eating habits Thoughts about making

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  describe the specifics of what I do, but gives a general idea of why. It also ... series, I decided to make an episode about some things I do in the lab! It ... Biomedical Research, with shots from my lab and our greenhouse. It's a pretty

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  News for Admitted Students Some next steps for those who received the good news.

  

  should do, now that the entire class has been admitted... Check out your MyMIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only available to ... -- driving and parking in Boston is not a good experience. Local Admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some things to do now if you were admitted to the MIT Class of 2014.

  

  should do, now that the entire class has been admitted... Check out your MyMIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only ... distance of MIT -- driving and parking in Boston is not a good experience

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010