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  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  don’t have to play musical laptops at airport security. (If your computer does disappear at airport security or die, there are at least 20 ... and web sites that have been useful to me at MIT: F.lux. If sleep is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in ... my life. But once I arrived at MIT, it seems almost blasphemous if you ... 's quite specific and personal. I am slow at math and continue to lack the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  .02 (Calculus), and MAS.110 (Media Design). You can Google each of my classes and ... is one of four first-year learning communities at MIT. MAS explores the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  Saturday at 12.15 pm.) Last year, this was me -- and funnily enough, although ... could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various ... smoothly. BUT: I hadn't thought at all about how I would feel in the days

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to ... [annotation note="Google Can Children Learn Creativity from a Social Robot? for ... 'll talk more about that later. But at some point, before I started actually

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  looks up at the airplane, the candidate passes and gets the job. Having ... or spacecraft for at least a decade. As Lulu L. '09 describes: "You ... school or early college, far fewer students decide to 'take a shot' at

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  . Nevermind all the doubts people were throwing at me, I was doubting myself ... my room, imagining my daily life at MIT, trying hard not to fall in ... that I had an extra import statement at the top of my main file which

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . Go to a website like firehose.guide and look at your choices. Schedule ... .01 Physics or 18.01 Calculus. Getting at least one technical GIR out of the way ... . Some recent ones that might help are Life Changing Classes at MIT

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

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

  

  sky. And so my college application season began. My interview was at the Cosi at 13th Street and 6th Avenue with a young recent graduate named Steve. I always get really nervous at interviews. I remember nothing

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  the couch at home and hoping I'd be able to load the website before ... look of sadness when it came. I figured, MIT is for those other kids at ... convinced I wouldn't get in because I wasn't even in the top 10% at my school

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  Med, or at least google scholar. (Xkcd 2007). I know, it sounds quite ... was the first technical communications class I took at MIT, and it has ... fact, that at times it will irrefutably convince you that it is not

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• 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 ... first semester: one CI-H/HW at least half of the science GIRs ... darkest hell weeks at MIT. In lieu of resummarizing the endless cycle of

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

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  switch to Day 5 immediately. I care about the academic work I’ve done at ... : Part 2, written in late freshman spring, got really dark at the end, then ... Pictures of 2017. By then, I memorized all the contents of my Google Photos

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  I was at least three times. I live in the university dorms which are ... , necrosis, and autophagy. My project looks at a protein, humanin, that ... get squeezed out of my Google Calendar. The weekends are an incredible

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  this semester started at 11 AM every day (and I've been on an extended ... Tech Shuttle. Man, I need to fix my bike. 9:02 AM. I arrive at work. I ... . (Sidenote: Who's ridiculously excited about Google Spreadsheets? This girl!) 9

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  let the breath out for at least six seconds (even longer if you can). Do ... walks can really help, but be careful if it is late at night. A long walk through the MIT tunnels at night can be really helpful for me when I feel

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  motivation for what we did? Alan: …not really. But there is, at the very least ... it on Facebook detailing his route, the times he arrived at each ... the morning than he did, because he started at Mattapan at [annotation

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  China in June, UROPing in Boston with a surprise stint at some Google ... needed to fulfill my HASS-Arts requirement (we’re required to take at least ... Manipulation and Mechanisms Laboratory at MIT, fondly nicknamed the MCube lab. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  population because: 1) I've never learned to code* at MIT (requirement for all engineering degrees). 2) I've never built anything at MIT (most engineering ... give me a break before you start berating me D: rawr! A quick look at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . And just look at the two campus maps. MIT is a school of numbers ... version has one digit more.   At MIT, lecture is supplemented by recitation, led by TAs (Teaching Assistants). At Harvard, this work is done in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015