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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it ... doing a bunch of things even though I don't have any classes. If you wanted a look into classes, I kind of summarized mine at the beginning of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  two hours on the first problem of the now three accumulated p-sets I ... of algorithms (TAs are capped at two classes). TAing is hard ... behind in in 6.854 in the first week of the semester and never caught up

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of ... of you in meet the bloggers! Robo-CJ writes haiku On HaikuBot i am in ... Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  , simultaneously, this-broadcast-is-live. I live at EC, on the second floor of the east parallel. In a window on the second floor, behind the man standing ... closer. A man stands on the stage, a banner fluttering behind him. The

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  checking in on this account. Anyway, I think I have a bit of a unique ... how to study on your own in the absence of a teacher or curriculum ... ." You feel like you are burnt out or that you are on the verge of burning

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  of my best friends, Colin, as we chatted about getting into our ... rational in convincing myself that things would turn out okay, at the end of ... and sobbed. They were not tears of joy. Flash forward one year. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  better on? LOSS OF POTENTIAL. DISAPPOINTMENT. BAGGAGE. For the past three ... In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  in the Stud, I realized that there were a lot of cool things on the ... needed to be, and all of the words written on the walls of the Infinite ... to as Infinite 1, and every floor of the Infinite above that is indexed

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  on the politics of framing. This means, the politics of how the frame ... can repeatedly land on a perch, the way birds do, and he is fascinated ... effective. So, we should really be taking more advantage of that in robotics

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

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... 't have your people. Sometimes, you’ll find your best living group on only one floor or lounge of a dorm, and it will be your family. Here are some

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  she was 4 (!) and is one of two goalies on MIT's team. Her profile on ... about the 'goal dance' one of the freshmen on the team did after scoring ... of sporting events, some of which I had never seen before. I saw

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  on the application! Cancer As a water sign, cancers have lots of ... obsession with astrology. Scientifically speaking, there are tons of reasons ... would cringe seeing this post), but I find it fun to read an analysis of

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  up at 0400 in the morning on the streets of LA or San Diego for a ... bag on the sidewalk of the LA Convention Center at 0400 in the morning ... can support her. If it means sitting on the sidewalk of downtown LA at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  extended reflection on what it means to be creating a community of people ... the thing you've been working on for so long. and that was true of my ... , so i'm doing things a little out of order. instead of walking last

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  natural, where you can focus your efforts on achieving instead of diverting part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is ... along with a big helping of the word "fit". At this point, it's a buzzword

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  Missouri. She's one of MIT's small-town and rural student ambassadors – part of the larger Small Town and Rural Student (STARS) Network, which aims ... ’m writing this in my dorm room overlooking the city of Boston. Ultimately, I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  on here about getting admitted, because I think it's not that great of ... score of 4.8 on them, and I have a 4.5 weighted GPA despite doing 3 ... . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  MIT has the best possible college location. On one side of campus ... 's contagious enthusiasm, check out these videos on sizes of infinity and the ... regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  ." There are a bunch of different things I could (should) touch on. Why ... 'd take a lot of time on each post. I'm not sure when the downward spiral ... MIT???" Are you cool with having a weird cartoon avatar of your face on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  or get a flat, I can speed past all of them on my bike. Needless to ... than biking on the shoulder On the other hand, much of Vassar St (another ... Orleans, and elsewhere. If you're on the West Coast, you may have heard of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010