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  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  (This seemed like a really good idea for an entry when I was on my ... himself), then sit down at the computer and turn on my (illegal but oh ... class performance on last Thursday's midterm. The lecture is about the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  So the other day I was reading an article on slashdot about ... founders posted on some forums I frequented - and being amazed by people who ... fairly nostalgic on the eve of his graduation. So he made two more things

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  stations that are technically on ‘Detour’ on the MBTA website, but were still ... it on Facebook detailing his route, the times he arrived at each ... few days later we went to a touchdown space on campus to plan it

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  ).  One of the first pages on our website, the FAQs page, helped us find our ... build working websites :D And so we moved on to the real thing™. game ... . If you're still hungry for more details on this wacky game, never fear

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  current bloggers asking if anyone was on campus this summer and would like ... old iterations of the MIT Admissions website (back to pieces from 2000 ... graduates. Also on an unlabeled CD, there was this folder called “to tim” with

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I ... and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It ... happened: once Pass/No Record was over, I felt like I was on a boat that was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  freshman class website is often frustratingly vague on this topic ... 't even mandatory for you anymore and I have no idea what's going on with ... bloggers have already composed pages and pages on this topic during their

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  classes will post the syllabus on the class website around registration ... in advance, here's considerations on picking classes and schedules ... , but look into classes that aren't on this list too. The best way to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  screamed loud enough that the person on the other side of the living room heard her (she was not on speaker). N.T. ‘21 (Early Action) I bought ... decisions came out. I could get 1 bar of wifi on my phone in one corner of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  pee his pants impressed that I'd climbed so high on the life ladder. I ... about and working on my essay. And reworking it. Over and over again. The ... amazing happened. The website crashed. ZOMG THE SITE CRASHED If I recall

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  on embedded systems, specifically looking at connected devices ... this provides some insight on what it's like to take 6.08 at MIT!! The ... number of times, and, based on the number of presses, the system will look

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  scans on Youtube and community wellness's website, but this is my short ... about it among my peers and self on the Internet and in real life. I study ... yourself hyperventilating, focus on holding the exhale as long as you can

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  isn't so cold that I could slip up on hidden snow or ice. Commuting via ... or get a flat, I can speed past all of them on my bike. Needless to ... MIT campus, ostensibly has bicycle lanes on either side down its entire

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  -end. Front-end focuses on the parts of the website that you see, and back ... answer is this blog post. Here's six projects I worked on some time during ... different, and that's okay. My goal is to encourage you to reflect on your own

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ."]MIT[/annotation] work experience. There are a lot of blogs on UROPs already, so I won ... industry experience (aka super resume-able). However, everything depends on ... be funded. Depending on the department the UROP is in, this can range

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  official website, and here's the Wikipedia page. This year, the Ig Nobel Prize official ceremony was held here in Cambridge - and, on Saturday ... Abrahams' eyes settled on me, and I got to take a seat on stage. Next, he

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  a dozen According to the MIT website: “Seventy-one present and former ... like working too hard in the class, you can take it on pass/no record or ... listings and making a hypothetical schedule for yourself on WebSIS. 6

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  by following the event on their website here! ... On Tuesday and Thursday mornings, when the sun has not yet heated the ... stops later, I get out facing Harvard Hall. There, on the second floor, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... Penn. I checked out the university’s website and Wikipedia page. I found ... fast approaching, so I hastily worked on my Common Application, and sent

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  proclaims "Challenge accepted..." Oh, how true. When giving tours on campus ... must say, is endemic on campus. This semester, for the first time in my ... any day of the week. This left me more time to work on graduate

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010