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• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  consensus is that this behavior will begin at least by the two-day student ... .100, Aerodynamics. Although this class is going to be a time sink (Adam walked in tonight after class and said, "See you guys in December"), Adam is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  I'm a little exhausted from answering questions right now, so this is ... 't know what the most parsimonious common denominator is yet. So, just to assuage my curiousity, what is it about MIT that draws you personally? I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  school is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after all. Even as I ... recognition is largely focused on the reputation of faculties that have not only ... most important thing is that you're not necessarily sacrificing your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  , but there is one thing that I am confident in recommending to you. (And ... 'yourself' is this definite thing, like a toaster or something. Like you can know what it is, even. But every so often, I'll have like, a moment, when

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  @mit.edu email as well as some server space with MIT. This space is known ... upload to this Athena locker, only Ben is a crazy Mac user and my parents ... got into MIT, how hard can it be? I totally know what FTP is (file

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  digital animation work on his first film. He is working at Pixar, and is a ... ," is signed "Rebel Scum." A dozen donuts were also left at the scene for ... went to great pains to protect the dome. The material is very light and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5n, n=1

  

  couldn't help but think of Fenway Park and the Red Sox. Fenway, I think, is ... place, like everyone is excited to be there. There's nowhere else like it ... Commencement (graduation), usually the first week in June, is also the weekend of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  in Richmond, VA. I had lunch again at the Steam Cafe, which is turning ... remember" is lead author of an upcoming paper announcing the discovery of ... hole mass. The observation is of a familiar source named SS 433 -- a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  it say E.Jones when I am B.Jones, and why is it squared? Here's the ... first name is Edward. When I got to MIT, Edmund and I thought it would be ... (E.Jones) instead of E.Jones2, but the truth is, our power really is

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  should I be doing right now? Schedule the interview now (today is the ... ). Having an interview is an important part of our process. Check in with ... scores sent to MIT. Our College Board (SAT I, SAT II and TOEFL) code is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  helped me quite a bit. At MIT, the interview is an important part of the admissions process. The interview report is often one of the most helpful ... his school. That was certainly a turn-off, though really the school is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  .1200[/annotation] was fun! But I digress. This is the first upcoming semester that I ... finishing my major (which is surreal), but it's also a mindset change that ... 'm not looking forward to! Which is also a first for me. There was always at least

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  .36 (Neurobiology of Self) which is a class that focuses on the neural mechanisms of ... separate our physical forms from our thinking forms, if there is even a ... consider how our mind is thinking. I hated all of this. But now I'm starting

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  my favorite part of ancient greek literature is its treatment of self ... example is learned helplessness: in the original experiment, dogs in the ... anecdote educators report is of children getting lost during a math class

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Announcing new blogger avatars! all-new, all quality

  

  ="alignnone" width="284"] Alan: "this is gonna be my portraitist origin story ... possibly communicate the amount of #swag i had back then, so instead, here is ... it is clear that i was far cooler then than i am now

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  Being a blogger is a bit of a weird job. Your only task is to write about your life, which seems easy as pie, but everything you write is ... what blogging is like, how the job works, and how it feels to be famous

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  's just a place. Not all adventures are good. No place is a paradise. The river simply flows, like time. This post is just some text, which hardly ... call this paradise? Then again, there is no paradise except the one we

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  ever, but I think the thing that's holding me back is just how much I ... about stuff is good!! I love it when people ramble to me about their ... Place is an incredible show that captures the essence of what it means to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  . The main problem, I think, is that Zoom fatigue is real. Staring at a screen all day is exhausting. Being online all day, even just by having notifications on, is exhausting. If I’m already online all the time, going to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Parting Remarks Ending the same way I began

  

  future students of the Institute. If there is anything you would like to ... ; P.S. For those new here, here is an old video I did after my frosh yr! (yes it is on a different youtube channel, unfortunately I lost the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 12, 2020