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• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  month of January on a finance internship in New York City. Both MIT and ... houseplants and city lights on a frigid night of this very warm winter. Still ... factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  's a bunch of reasons I try to avoid it now, so instead I have been on a ... up on a backlog of work over the next few days, but I don't think that ... of it, spinning things that are on fire and trying to keep in them

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to someone else. I hope spending some money on some of these things, or ... Anxiety. It's a term with a variety of definitions, causes, and ... about it among my peers and self on the Internet and in real life. I study

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

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  catalog online. It consists of an overview of MIT, some notes on campus life ... : Historical context: notes on MIT's history in general, changes to the format of ... also specifies that it should be submitted on "one side only of paper of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  regional term you use for a major road that you drive relatively fast on ... , and yes, on many highways. My favorite part of traveling is visiting ... meeting with lots of students and families on these trips!"]High Schools

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  of person who might love it. Life moves fast here: there are many more ... Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  getting it on. So fast forward a bit: I'm there again at the end of August ... internet this fast again. And you will cry yourself to sleep because of that ... being smashed. And everytime I cross the threshold of a jet, settle into

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  before. I was hoping fasting would bring me some sort of ease about what ... green single subject with the words “Questions of Life” written on the ... holes punched on the wrong side, or an extensive amount of my own writing

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  2 layers of cling wrap on top of the table 3 layers of paper towel on ... running 3 times as fast as a car on the highway. [caption id ... content warning: discussions of roach uwu Roaches are curious little

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  restructured itself on a fast, personal and somewhat upsetting level. I had to go ... . I’ve kept on working on the new book I’ve been thinking of, and I ... looming sense of vertigo—like something inside me was always cycling

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  from the class notes open on the other half of the screen. Nothing sticks ... on cue.  My mind buzzes at the thought of literally anything besides ... underside of my nose, to grabbing the cup on my desk that’s been empty for

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  part of that process, I polled the bloggers on blogging features and ... then on several blogger lists of current and former bloggers. Through ... that queer content has never been featured on the blogs; it frequently

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  authentication? If you're programming on your own, outside of a platform, what ... 't suggest running ESP's first virtual program but I took on the risk of doing ... built in a weekend, and "every new feature had been crammed on top." All

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  me since I left consulting and moved on to a fast-growing furniture ... is on remembering the best of who I’ve been and bringing my favorite ... anniversay of my MIT journey. 10 years ago today, I was just about to start my

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  on Hamsika's blog about the Boston Globe special feature on MIT and ... Happy Friday! Yes, that is an Oberlin College-produced parody of ... the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  of pretty paper art. In fact, I did a UROP on designing this stuff over ... 'm creating a shattered glass looking thing on all of my walls (1 down, 3 to go ... smell of the boxes I lived out of for weeks and the Junior Mint factory on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  featured in the first video in this post! The end credits show someone on a ... sorts of discussions on campus was frustrating. I feel that we all have an ... beautiful art on a variety of mediums. This part of the video was the only

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  both of these :)) on something with real-world impact. As it turned out ... excited for—and I’m giving a talk on plane crashes to one of our internal ... PhD in mathematics. I have settled on the University of Virginia and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  it passed. Our view of the Boston Skyline from Killian Court on ... 2.5 months of chewing, a faceless algorithm spits out a decision. Or you might wonder who on the other side reviews your application. I

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  a booth on one of these tables and advertise to passersby in between ... moving to where they needed to be on the day-of. That night, I made a ... lecture in room 1-190, one of the biggest lecture halls on campus, filled

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019