Search

Search Results

• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  finished a 7.012 Biology pset early Wednesday morning, I wrote an essay for ... .02 Multivariable pset this morning as well as study for the midterm exam tomorrow ... all time - and I’ve been eagerly awaiting its arrival for months. I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  upon (actually, not really. My professors for 20.363, Biomaterials

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  tests, long before I contemplated completing an application for college ... , once put it, “If you have to pause, for more than a second or two, to ... , they should be a viable candidate for admission to a highly selective

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... panicked for a split second when I actually didn't know how many - but then I ... my bruise is for making lasting impressions on people I meet, I think I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Things took a turn for the worse. Quickly. Very quickly. -- August ... the indignant rumble of my ungrateful stomach, which was screaming for ... four huge airport-bound bags…and then it happened. I heard it. For a long

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  furiously. I had a deadline at 5 pm for my Economics of Health class essay, so ... weather today for the marathon? But it should be done by now though” and ... okay. But I didn’t know that, so I didn’t. I prayed for every single

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , so ready for CPW, because I didn’t get to go to CPW when I got admitted ... more for all of you admitted students. yeah i know, i can edit: oops i ... format for a haiku. Most of its poems are 2 to 5 lines long, and each line

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  Chinese-language post not mentioned here. The content is a bit different for ... traveled together in China for a vacation (I was stuck at home interning :P ... a apartment in Nanjing for a month since it was cheaper than a month

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  equilibria, I guess? For those unfamiliar with the concept of dynamic ... likening my next four years to learning to swim: You can cling for dear life ... , and the regressive doubts that hold me back -- making for zero net

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn ... 'm talking about an opportunity for personal growth. It's the big selling ... you need for shelling out something on the order of (tens of) thousands

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  dorms are by the Charles River and in Baker, for example, 80% of rooms ... Boston. For more about the community service and fun opportunities in ... , you can do research for all four years of college and who knows, maybe

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  emails for more pretty graphs"]Waly![/annotation]  Top X Classes by ... . For the rest, I included the class/classes with the highest frequency ... for the Actor (1) 2021 6.115: Microcomputer Project Laboratory (2

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  , you get the point. Freshman fall is meant to be a reality check for ... school for my prickly personality among other things and I was struggling a ... . There was some part of me that felt guilty for changing because it felt as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  I've been blacksmithing for just shy of a year. This fall, I took 3 ... credit for me, but also accelerated my blacksmithing knowledge and practice ... ="alignnone" width="198"] riveted V (for Velez), spiral, and fitted bars

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  These blogs exist for many reasons. Show prospective students what ... for feeling all of those things, or feeling anything else. No matter ... post will be a way for you to start processing all of those thoughts, a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  . You've heard the story, but you're there for new perspectives ... ingredient. —anonymous going to Harvard, but for a fraction of the cost. —Robo ... well in the ocean. The same goes for a degree in engineering," says

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  going to be useful or informative to anybody, except for future me who wants to reminisce back on my glory days at MIT. So, for future me: here ... Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  if extracting my physical energy as a tax for my sin. the entire month ... with machine learning. i am also a counselor for promys. it’s a math summer camp i went to for two years back in high school, and each time i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  ="87065" /] Pros booths are great for solo/partner work comfortable seating ... positive but for me is distracting food is so overpriced Fourth Floor ... year that I made a playlist for when I study there...yes, I'm serious

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Deciding that a little carton of milk couldn ... , for some reason, Milk wasn’t so gracelessly disposed. Perhaps the wealth

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015