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• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  resolution to not start over or delay anytime a goal falls short, I need some ... for a $10 Amazon gift card. Now, instead, I resolve to not care so much ... needs to be paid and when so that I won't have unexpected withdrawals or

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  spring break trip to Vienna, I’ll need to have enough money put aside ... pull you up and give you the boost you need to fight your own monsters. I ... hyperlinking it to this paragraph) What do you need to do within 30 minutes of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  you had to meet all the new students. Talk to the freshmen and transfers ... mattered. Friday, December 13, Early Action decision day, was to be “the day ... of APs to the warm spreading feeling of “but I’ve taken X number of APs

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

   softmax or reLU. I didn’t need to know anything about machine learning to do ... didn’t need to find a GPU to run it, because Google Colab makes it easy ... much bigger pond Alas, my life has a lot more to live for me I wrote a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  glance at the material once, then place it all by the curb to be recycled ... much a school costs. You are in the process of determining where to apply ... the visit. You need to know if the the place that you are visiting is

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  close by, so it's not too much trouble to get fresh fruits and vegetables ... a difficult place and they need to make sure that the people they ... yourself (no need to re-copy your college essay; think more of a personal ad

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  fulfilling work, if I ever get a handle on it myself. I said this to my mom ... mountainsides like trees. I got the tattoo to remember the desert. I’ve been ... stomping ground. There is a beauty to the desert that you cannot see unless

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  protesting that the glass must be jam-packed with the energy I need to get ... counterargument. “If it’s not honey, why does it stick to things? Checkmate, safety ... )[/caption] Much to my dismay, the instructors conveniently had an explanation for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  , what does MIT recommend? If you go to MIT's page of Recommended Laptops ... things I was looking forward to most about MIT was having a laptop and ... world). The issue? I needed a laptop. Although there have been some blogs

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  No Pain, No Gain I wish it weren't so.

  

  and triceps might need to be a larger part of my life - asap!! I was ... and the techniques I need to work on. I'm also now fully aware that MIT ... , these injuries were pretty much my own fault. Because my EMT-B state exam

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  orgo book that I need to be reading. 3. Watch Avatar - Yes. I know. It ... always mean to return the favor. It's happened maybe once so far. 5. Bring ... After considerable twisting and tweaking, I have contrived to design

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  handle so much. Keep a journal, take photos, take videos. Document your ... 've lapsed into the I-only-need-water-and-saltines diet from time to time ... [annotation note="and if you look to your left, you will see a biochemist

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  engineering schools, school officials said. "That's all Peter needed to hear ... learned what she needed to do to prepare for college. She was in AVID all ... said. “I can’t ever push Stephen as hard as he needs to be pushed without

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  can't join in, because I really need to be reading applications. As I ... are on campus to see a lecture upstairs by Nobel Prize winner Ted Hänsch ... chance to see it) The MIT International Science & Engineering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2006 announced

  

  Hunt; teams that want classroom space will need to reserve rooms through ... where students and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ... :07:33 -0500 From: 2006 MIT Mystery Hunt To: [email protected] Subject

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  % chance you're a sick person to be around. you're laid back, can handle ... problem you've been staring at for hours. god, you just need to graduate ... a cursed follow up to this post. note that these are based off

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  you ain’t gonna need it overthinking

  

  there any point to thinking? putting too much importance in what other people would think. i worry too much about whether my decision to choose X ... hard, but you ain't gonna need it. you're not focusing on what matters to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  exposed to other ways of getting around, I'm thinking about what I want to ... translates to used cars — some are cheap enough that doubling the price wouldn ... allows faster cyclists to pass. Every major stoplight has a smaller set

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  after they've been deferred, right?" Not true. We need to look ... you do decide that you absolutely need to send something in, other than ... you were deferred, or "what needs to be improved," simply

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  her ‘lukewarm’ life, and has decided that she needs to reunite with her ... fulfilling as it once was. The key to escaping this, the card ventures, is to ... - often, coming to that realization was painful. What once was viable

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024