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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  occasional bout of boredom at work. And hence, I discovered the magic of ... I'm at MIT. Lone Digger by Caravan Palace - This song vaguely ... empty classrooms very late at night during second semester when I was

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  . Last summer, I did MISTI Jordan, working at a pharmaceutical company ... treasured moments (sprawled on the pitch black sand in Wadi Rum, gazing at ... ), and the wild moments (like being stranded at a border and having a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  For the last 6 days, I’ve been at the Vision Sciences Society ... work I’ve been doing at my UROP this year! My poster! Here's a link to the full-size version. I’ve been looking at how changing the title of a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  , maybe because of it I’ll one day be gr8 at optimizing stuff, but for now ... at it though--I haven’t really committed to anything beyond the usual ... class...probably could have at least a 0.3 or more higher GPA ^^; (look at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  time at the Johnson Arena from 8-9:30a every morning, so that's been ... . Here's me at one of the club's rinks, with the ice all to myself--one of ... bookings. I then grabbed dinner at Applebee's, just right behind the hotel

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  your tastes at Senior House. And if you can’t peg yourself on this either ... things not held equal. We might first look at demographic factors, as it is ... , action targeted at the dorm itself is worthless, especially the problems

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  Associate Professor of Applied Science and Engineering at Olin College. At MIT ... , Street-Fighting Mathematics, at the MIT Press (read the book here ... flux over a slice of the Earth to arrive at the same answer with a one

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  Lydia here: some of my favorite things I’ve learned at MIT, from my ... art adventures at MIT?” What I thought I heard: “how many pretty ... worked out really well… for freshman fall at least. Everyone should spend

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  Los Angeles, and I can’t wait to spend Thanksgiving with my family. At ... early (late?) 6:00 at MIT is. As I made the familiar trek past Mac ... belonged at MIT. I think that at some point in every college student

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  things that can and will change at MIT. In fact, that’s what I love about ... -part post. That being said, I’ll assume for now that academics at MIT won ... speech events, which I was actually much better at. I did this for four

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  petals. Baby bunnies hopping around gleefully at your feet. The smell of ... to other schools that are spewing their judgments at you all of this ... that all tend to release within several days of each other. At this point

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  week. (Your mileage may vary: I'm looking at you, 6.115.) The ... cla— Stop. Breathe. Your time at MIT isn't defined by the ... for it, but the number of classes you take doesn't determine you at

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  monitoring and adjusting orientation. Life at MIT isn’t so different. You ... ; During my time at MIT so far, I've learned some valuable lessons about ... reasonably successful at most things they've put their minds to. And depending

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  my friend's room at Random Hall reading that fateful email from Ben ... is really not bad at all), just over a quarter done with my third year ... , based on the stat counters at the bottom, has probably been of help to a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  [email protected] or call the Admissions Office at 617-253-3400.]   ... prefer to receive it, but letters without it are at no disadvantage. We ... interviews are at no disadvantage.) If you have already interviewed with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  Program at the NRAO site in Charlottesville, Virginia. Your research topic ... to look at things. --- A couple of weeks ago, my dear friend Davie ... with him. Basically: we were going to go look at birds, through

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a ... -year) deferral from starting at MIT, it is super easy to do so. On your online reply form on your MyMIT portal, just choose I will enroll at MIT and I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  ; At MIT, a hunger for chocolate knowledge   Jayson Lynch (center) hands out samples at an MIT Laboratory for Chocolate Science tasting ... Kallari - a sustainable chocolate-making cooperative in Ecuador - spoke at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  him at a book fair in November and he told me that he was deeply ... expertise to the challenge. TIM has been taking some courses at Sloan and is ... for responses. See? On Christmas morning, I sat down at my kitchen

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  everybody mad at me. If, while reading this, you find yourself a) Upset b ... -mail Matt McGann and complain I urge you instead to just e-mail me at snively [at] mit [dot] edu and we'll discuss content and I'll go ahead and make

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008