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• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  's definitely progress, and this markdown file is not the best way to represent it ... bestowed her wisdom upon the bloggers. It is unarguably god tier for task ... 's just for task management. Task management is for the school year; goal

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  [The following is a collection of ramblings and memory unloadings ... miss listening to Indie pop. I miss discovering all of the music that is ... classes I’ve ever taken. He did not have to put so much work into making the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  found myself being pretty well described by [annotation note="this is the ... is, albeit not a very creative one.  I wasn't originally planning to ... the blogs in 4th grade or so. I, for one, was definitely not one of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  , about a year ago. But on the tracker page testing requirements is not ... still answers the questions, just not in an overt way. Is that ok? I also ... international students.   The Early Action deadline is fast approaching

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  's the first purple shirt I own, which is weird, since I like purple. The teacher lunch is okay. There isn't much pizza left by the time I arrive ... talking about pulsars, I make a deal with the class. They are not allowed to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To RFID or not to RFID? That's not really the question, but it's kind of a cool title, no?

  

  savvy (like me), here's the wikipedia article on RFID). One of which is from the San Jose Mercury News - "'Printed Chips' Could be Boon for ... Bulthaup in 2001, the year he graduated from MIT with a Bachelor's and Master

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  , the answer is no. MIT gives really remarkably, disappointingly horrible ... is not quite like a placement test because it doesn’t let you skip ... willy-nilly, because it is important to have a firm background in the core

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  water" to transform their lives. The heat is "intensity" equating to "the drive of the entrepreneurial spirit." The light is the willingness view ... uncle. And although I am 2,880 miles away from MIT, I still attended the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  convey my point, I present to you the not-at-all-exhaustive and not ... computational research project after the other. Which is to say, I know how to ... further. Plus, all the CS classes seem so cool. And a major in CS is the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  That you vote most certainly does! The following is a guest entry ... community: The probability of my vote affecting the outcome of an election is so low that casting a vote is a waste of my time. But what if the value

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  semester. I'm not sure if I have the time for D-Lab this semester or not ... solar heating. This is the definitely the class to take if you want to ... , and it reminded me of the good times at MIT. Well, in Honduras, but

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the ... boundary of your shape, at the end of this process, is called a zonotope. In ... is true no matter how you drew the vectors you picked for your zonotope

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  mind. But there is no checklist for an essay. An essay should not serve ... essays were about how I spent time. My essays did not use the word “passion ... passion. It is not as simple as “finding what you love to do” because such

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  the way up, but not for a particular reason any more palpable than the ... - thanks, Wikipedia: Mt. Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan at 3,776 m (12 ... and climbers (okay, I kinda knew that part). The mountain is divided

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Majors & Minors

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

  

  the physics of the world and of our brains is the most important thing ... idea of coming to MIT and not learning anything? The idea of being ... not only precision, math equation wizardry, and the love of things like

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  *Oink Oink* Nobody panic!

  

  't actually started, so the verdict? Probably H1N1. Wonderful. MIT Medical gave him a blue mask, had him spend the night, and sent him back to live with ... form of flu, most likely H1N1. This is what I look like today

  • by Snively '11
  • September 23, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  By the end of my freshman year, I was convinced that I had not ... thoroughly believed that I just could not learn the content deeply, no matter ... nothing is impossible (and in some ways, it did that for me), for the most

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  destress! Also, this is actually just an excuse for me to talk about the ... bit late to the OfflineTV train. OfflineTV is a group of content ... creators I've discovered from the Among Us lobbies. CORPSE is by far one of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  the atmosphere of 18.032 was just different. 18.03 is in 10-250, one of ... (which I imagine is true for a lot of the STEM women out there). But as I ... websites and wanted to help out, and I was the only woman there out of twenty

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  that there is one puzzle in the universe you have not solved: what did ... novel and one eye on the TV, which is showing the latest episode of ... . You recognize that icon. It's the MIT icon! And puzzles, well...Anna is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012