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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  official description of the class is: 6.270 is a hands-on, learn ... the students is to design a machine that will be able to navigate its ... round begins, there is no human intervention (in 2.007 the machines are

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  know what its other more sensitive areas are. This entry is all question ... better and ready to apply to MIT now? BananAPPEAL quandries: 1) Is MIT a place for academic masochists? 2) What's your major, and how is the work

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  'll see when you walk into Burton-Conner is the front desk. The desk is ... checks in and out. The front desk is also where you can get your mail, find ... the game and TV rooms. (More on those later.) The laundry room is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  Well, the moment is finally here. My last first day at (virtual) MIT ... into the cringefest that is my writing from senior year of high school ... . It’s a real heartbreak. But as they say, there is something good in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  The start of spring is an important time — not because summer is drawing near, not because the temperature is heating up, and not even ... you’re involved in outside of lacrosse. Sydney: Hi! My name is Sydney

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  Wrapped is unfortunately a little underwhelming, since I use Spotify for < ... (and that person was 4th) 💀 Music is also not my preferred medium of ... . And before you ask, no! This blog is not sponsored by Audible. In fact

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  cw: gore ?  # The void is calling to you. You speak to the machines ... cut look clean.  One piece you cut is fine and smooth, but the next has ... — which is usually sweltering but right now is simply warm. The taciturn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  stairs. The air that encompasses the staircase is hot and inky, and so I ... how it is cornered against a baseball field, where the local children ... domesticity. For matrimony. For a car that is safe and reliable. For a sidewalk

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  ="going through the archives, it looks like I missed sophomore fall, which is fine ... "] yes, my friday is completely empty. please clap[/caption] CMS.701 (Current Debates in Media): This is the capstone class for the CMS major

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  ="everything except writing Haikyuu! fanfiction, that is"]high school hobbies ... spend a lot of my day living in my own head, which is another high school ... productive. nearly everything i do is intentional—when i read or dance or draw

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  Oooooooohhhh boy. A new semester has begun! I know this post is kinda ... .e. electricity and magnetism). My professor is great. My TA is GREAT. My small group for TEAL is SUPER GREAT. Big ++. 6.08: Introduction to EECS via

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  honestly this whole semester, which is why we haven't been blogging as much ... one test towards the very end of the semester and no final, which is great, because lots of tests aren’t fun. But because this test is so late

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  Burn-out is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. It is characterized ... things to blog about: my "blog backlog" in Trello is stacked deep with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  Today is May 1, the conventional deadline for admitted students to ... simply murky matters of fact; often, the indeterminacy is more fundamental ... problem, for Sam, and for many students like him, is that there is no right

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  long story short is that after I wrote that blog post, I didn’t actually ... forward a few years, when Matt mentions that Admissions is creating a new ... Hall. 2. Who is your blogspiration? Sam M. '07 wrote one of my favorite

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  : - There is a physics pset due tomorrow. - I am hungry. I need food. - I ... . This is the next (four) years of your life that we're talking about, and ... , here are some things I do to keep myself sane: Poi Poi is a member of the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   Hi everyone, The Office of Admissions is ... improvement in your application.   For RA students What is the

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  relaxation, Friday is the greatest day of the week. But as the last day of the ... weekdays. Sure, Monday is a pain. Tuesday is kind of meh. Wednesday at least ... unicorns-and-narwhals awesomeness and my-face-is

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  classes within that department. The idea is to get some depth in a HASS ... teaching. All it seems to mean is that class sizes for the advanced seminars are tiny; students don't really take advantage of them. This is fine by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  's Cookie." Lewis, an art history major at Princeton, is a famous journalist ... 's false humility with a point. My case illustrates how success is always ... fortunate. This is the point I tried to make in my blog post Life is Improv

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012