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• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  What will life be like next week? The week after that? 6 months from ... companies and jobs may no longer be around next year. But the world will still ... season of Survivor?), you will be about the age I am now, which, bedtime

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  essay test that started in March - and will be given for the second time ... failing to release such samples to the public. "We will change that," said ... should not be the primary way kids learn to write," said Wayne Camara, vice

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  being rationed) and will argue for how to resolve the life allocation ... scenario? Our intuition will be to simply pick the scenario that saves the ... precisely one life. The maximum principle will be unable to choose one over

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  GREATEST, and I am going to continue to be the GREATEST", and then they fail ... four years of pure joy and pure exhaustion, I will be marching in my ... Office, my mommy]?" and that random undergrad will point you in the correct

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  last minute application panic for the procrastinators

  

  supplementary materials after the deadline, but some won’t. Be mindful of every ... the clock is ticking down. Anything might happen—there could be a power outage, the Wi-Fi could fail, your pet could have a meltdown, the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  application process will mess with your preconceptions and alter the way you ... essay the best it can be. This post is called "discovering yourself ... dropped, which will they be? On MIT's application you'll have to remember

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  will be posting their experiences soon. But a number of alum bloggers did ... of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar eclipse on April 8th. I had happened to see the total eclipse in 2017 in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  minority students relax? Will I be accepted if none of my clothes are from ... considered in the USNWR rankings. For that matter, you might not even be ... your first instinct will be to take my list, and fire back all those

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  will be in each class. Preregistration happens at the end of the previous ... the same time! :-) I totally agree with this, so I will revise my hearty ... transfer the payment to the credit card. And if you can't trust yourself to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  email the document if the fax option has repeatedly failed for you. Faxing ... previous post, we are now extending the deadline for submission of missing ... .687.9184 Fax is the most reliable way to get us a document. It is automagically

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  this happens. "Typically a bus will be out of service going to the start ... then same thing — a number of those will pull back to the garage at the ... 'deadhead' from Sullivan to Wellington, so it will be out of service during

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  happy for the next four years, whether you will be challenged, whether you will be stimulated. The top schools are all top schools - it now comes ... questions from last entry will be answered this week when I do the Questions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  in life. Once you've achieved this goal, you figure, everything will be wonderful. Life will be good. I mean, you got into MIT, right? You've got it ... until they get that piece of paper that will open the gate into the "real

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  blog will have to be the outlet of my ramblings till then =p Just like ... introduction to each dorm) today and will be sent out with the May Next Big ... middle of June till the middle of August! I will be working in a community

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: REGRESSIONS a documentary on MIT, and why it's so important

  

  heritage arises from many factors, many of which will never be clear to the ... negative it would be. On May 1st, I went to the screening with almost 20 ... find someone willing to listen to you. The warmer, more close-knit MIT of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  post) will be as follows: given a list of numbers in random order (say 3 ... comparisons, where k is a small constant (could be 5, 10, 15, etc). The number ... . It turns out the algorithm we develop, ALG, will make k * N * (log N)2

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.

  

  all necessary transfers and the track numbers of all the trains, so ... sixth level detailing how the city is going to be redesigned over the next ... With almost no effort, the three of us were able to venture out into the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  —after all, freshman fall with Pass/No Record had to be the easiest of all ... how great CPW will be. Actually, make that twenty. I’ve been mulling ... the Bloggers, I’d like to say this: Be excited. Hold on to that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie I love freebies!

  

  endure PSETS, exams, and sleepless nights. What will be causing those ... Fluids. This is the class I'm afraid of failing. It's notoriously difficult ... Twice a year all of the bloggers essentially get a freebie post. We

  • by Snively '11
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  When the most stressful thing in your life is having repetitive ... . Things like rearranging the plates and cups in our cabinet in an artistic way. Like watching 6 episodes of the magic school bus. Like exfoliating

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008