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• 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
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  . So here goes: The Burchard Scholars Program is a dinner ... is that the lectures are so eclectic and wide-ranging that you're bound ... was in this cycle is attached: Fall 2009 Noel Jackson – Associate

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  information on the banner above is already outdated. I declared Course 9, Brain ... 'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of opinions, but the mind has always been fascinating to me. This is one of the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  -present keyboard, why is this movie called bees? (The contextual ambiguity of “this ... “why is the ocean salty” are seeking an answer subtler than, “Because it ... begin with an M, MIT is the fourth-most popular one to get into (third if

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  amazingness. I know I've been holding back and not telling you what my toy is, leaving you hints and leaving you guessing. This is the entry where all is ... presentation so we decided to chill before the show started. This is when the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  It is 5:16am. At about 4:45, I walked into Senior House. I had been ... 'freaking clock in the morning, and the stuff is nearly all gone ten minutes later ... is the only mailing list I ever took myself off of, because I stopped

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  , here to talk about his movie, Doug Liman. DOUG LIMAN: Hello, my name is Doug Liman and this is my movie. These clips are from a week ago, which is like a year in Hollywood time, so it's like going back in time for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  least be Bryan O. '07, '12? So the purpose of this entry is to somewhat ... Engineering -- so it is possible to switch fields. And it also is possible to ... . Part of growing up is knowing when it's time to part ways with things

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  following would have been a wonderous experience for both of us. It really is ... milk is okay past the Sell By date?". So basically, this entry is brought ... completely intentional segue, this post is waaay past its "Sell By" date. It

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  It’s mid-October, which means that life at MIT is crazy right now. The semester is really underway now, so that means tests and psets and ... anyway and trying to keep it from happening. (You’re welcome. =P) This is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? One of the sister cities of Hiroshima, Japan is my hometown of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The title is taken from a short story ... like two years until I read Everything is Illuminated and found out that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006