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  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  gracefully swept (or brutally pummeled, depending on what day of the week it ... meowed right back. That evening, I was on one of those benches outside the ... a website that revealed an entire page of coded words. We decoded the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• 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 / Academics & Research

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

  

  you have a pretty good understanding of what is going on in general and ... solution! Make sure to spend a lot of time on font, text size, color palette ... train of thoughts (trains of thought? trains of thoughts? being on the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  technique used to reproduce the layout of colonies on one petri plate on a ... of safe and effective marksmanship techniques used in the pursuit of ... with my glasses on. This time I aimed at the bottom of the bull’s eye, at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• 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 ... whether to create the website in Perl or Python. There's a bit of discussion ... right mindset of thinking about future website developers, but they didn

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

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  website, for example) outside of reading season to reserve our cognitive ... '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

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

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  , and is the talk of campus. . . President Obama came and visited on ... expected that to be the most of my Obama-Visit-Experience. Word on the street ... , and now all of a sudden I was going to see the President! On Thursday

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  couple of e-mails on my behalf to people he knew in his department, which ... , and grad students will post openings on this website, along with their ... area of research that interests you, check out their website, find a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  dorms would take on an entirely new level of technicality—the rise of the ... groundbreaking began on the new dormitories by September of that year. The reunion ... the ’93 roof are on page 334 of the 1927 Technique. There are more on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• 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 / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  , the most-read blog on MIT Admissions. As a member of the Class of 2018 ... of me. It’s a risky technique, so I won’t advise it here, but if it ... . And at MIT, where a 59 on an exam can be a B, the feeling of failure at

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  ’t really exist. Where I was standing, a picture of a studfinder rests on the ... familiar odor. You blink. You’re lying on the floor of a dimly-lit machine ... anyone who was on the committee. The announcement comes from a division of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  . I’ve kept on working on the new book I’ve been thinking of, and I ... New Yorkers are…well, probably deserving of an occasional punch or two ... restructured itself on a fast, personal and somewhat upsetting level. I had to go

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  following quote:   One of the most important things about college is its ... sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds and you learn from each ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  day. Master a new dish. Sit on the porch with the intention of ... 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

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• 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 / 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 ... decisions came out. I could get 1 bar of wifi on my phone in one corner of the ... a lot of fun. In the car on the way home I pulled out my phone to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  . The beginning of a new year, or a decade even, always has the wonderful effect of allowing us to reflect on the past—to soak it all in, to remember ... who I was. Unfortunately, some of these websites aren’t around any more

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  all kinds of high-tech research, from paper-thin loudspeakers to new ... the design Jorg, the lecturer in charge of our labs, was totally on ... of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• 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