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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  . You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud ... 's collective Spotify wrapped. It's crazy to me how much Spotify has just...solved what used to be [annotation note="Last year, I made an offhand reference

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  math blog, but I thought it would be interesting to write it again for a ... backstroke.) Learning to play the harmonica.  Not bad, but it could ... can convince me that that's the best use of my time I'll think

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  have approximately 0 hours to actually do it. Nice things. It’s going ... . You might need to send them quick travel updates, so ask which way to ... , you can ask if they keep their room hot or cold if you’re sensitive to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5 days to May 2

  

  you on the wait list, we won't know if we'll be going to the waitlist ... to know anything until the following week. In the meantime, May 1/2 is coming up quickly for you, too, and I hope that you've found another school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  digression here. In any case, I also used to hate tea. I thought it tasted ... have been substituting this drink with TEA????? I used to hate tea. But to be fair, I also used to hate drinking coffee. Have I talked about

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  I think it is different now. It is one thing to understand a fact or ... intellectually -- and it is another thing to go somewhere and witness this fact living out its daily life. (Add to this the phenomenon of knowing that you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  it, still struggled to wrap my head around material--but i guess i managed to scrape through it. it was the kind of thing where i felt like i ... of problems i like to think about using the sorts of tools that i think

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  life and I have always admired their ability to seemingly "have it all ... business is not an option for most people, though it is a convenient way to ... repercussions on the job market. First of all, it is very competitive to find a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week of work

  

  made very difficult, but we can earn back up to half the points we lost ... theory than applied math. Well, it is number theory. But it's useful in ... parts are being activated. So the class is about the use of fMRI to study

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  circumstances, to which one can hold tight, when necessary…” - from Nachdenken ... ; *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization ... I think that the moral was this: you can try to micromanage your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  awesome, what's not to love about the combination? So here it is, *groan ... ’t have worked in a lab nor done research to enter. It’s that time of year ... * For me, it was really awesome getting the chance to work in a lab and to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  exact, but it just never seemed to work out.  By the time I had to choose ... , and, to be honest, I wasn’t even interested. You can therefore ... because I would be able to do anything tangible with it. And before anyone

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  "institutional memory" a lot. it refers to the knowledge that's shared between the ... meetings. but it takes time to set up the infrastructure for good knowledge transfer, and it's easy to forget something small, like transferring a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  myself, “Well that’s something, ain’t it?” I quickly called my parents and ... my transition from pueblerina to big city girl. A year and a half has passed since that blog post and I’d like to give you an update. When I

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  somehow forgot to submit the event on the left on time, it's not on the ... . Plus, it's a lot more fun to roam freely through events and around campus ... 's incredibly creepy (not to mention unhygienic). You can just talk to them

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  area; it can be in any of these fields. You don't have to concentrate in ... RIAA to see it. Answer: I used to use Kazaa. But I do not now, partially ... your bed to be, although the highest you can get it is about 3.5 or 4

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  quantify or plot. But this is what it means to me: Fit is having at least ... these 18 months can't be described with equations or Greek letters. It ... . Confident enough, as it happens, to break away from MIT - to take next

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  normal How To Make.) Anyway, last week's assignment was to use the laser ... neither one can hide that I usually live my life lost in abstract-land without anything to tether me down to things that actually exist. So to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  dear to civilization. No matter how gingerly, how mildly I tug it open ... takes on average 20 seconds to wriggle the drawer back into its proper ... seconds to spell “hierarchy” successfully, but it's summer after all and I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  drowning. If drowning seems plausible, an individual can opt to take an ... ?" Me: "Hi. I'd like to take the swim test, and I was wondering if I can arrange to take it now since there's a lifeguard free." Swim office lady

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013