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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  canceled. If it does then I may be stuck in Boston for Christmas because the ... ! It's hard but totally doable! I could actually be ok in this place!" I ... sure. For example, on my first test of the year I got two standard

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  Admissions blogger is its Editor-in-Chief? [answer at the end of the entry ... . Boiko: Last year, a senior in one of our courses came up at the end of ... people in MIT's introductory writing courses!" And now, she said, she

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  our friends resolve their issues so we choose not to help them and in ... spoilage makes them more engaging, not less there are no oracles in real ... example is learned helplessness: in the original experiment, dogs in the

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

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  what major issues are really pressing down on me and requiring my immediate attention. Yes, there was a point in my life where 75% of the e ... , really. Really. How many e-mails does Mitra send me in a typical day? Let

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too busy ... survey to solicit feedback on the MyMIT blogs (look for this in a few weeks ... products for possible use in MyMIT Write & design new invitations for

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  ’t think i ever read…) for weeks about an event in lobby 10. Thursday I saw ... scam for donations, before I lost 3 tries in a row and high tailed it out ... there has been in a while. I was outside writing this blog in Killian

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  it in the air. I hated myself for a long time for thinking I could go ... MIT! For many of you applying EA, the deadline is fast approaching! I’m going to share my experience with applying early, and for anyone applying

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Fryday on Sunday If you're looking for more apples, do not click this.

  

  -feet long arms. Rebecca '12, for instance, is renowned in Random Hall for her ... published in next January's issue of Science. At some point, our lipid ... in pendulous obligation to the slippery edge of a Sunday night that is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  of the criteria that I'll be looking for in the guest entries I publish ... [The Call For Guest Entries has been updated/modified] Wow, excuse ... Blendie looks like an ordinary blender, it is in fact a voice activated

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  not being right for me in the long term."][/annotation] Nothing else I tried was any better. Twiddling with dimensions in SolidWorks for ... and getting good at it, as if I was holding out for a better goal. In

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  dating. My to-do list for today, in between my laptop and my tea, written ... survived (an almost perfect metaphor for tooling at MIT). Cory and I bought ... -intensive requirement for my math major, to get more exposure to proofs and real math in a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  in line graphs, there are applications for sorting, searching, and ... importantly, a tool that will likely come in useful in my research this semester ... (only for papers I've referenced explicitly in this post; our write

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  engineering. I felt I should be looking for other people who did well in math ... .218, Topics in Combinatorics, for example, I realized on the first day that I ... first, what I was looking for in a career, before I actually try things

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  you the best. Let us know what we can do for you. Justin, in general, we ... work here in the United States. Am I still eligible for financial aid? If ... . This means I can't put pictures in for the other ones. I would like to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  myself from saying that because i'm normal, haha A: in a sense aren't we ... "we're all trying to act normal" isn't weird A: we're driving in mario kart A: like we're driving along in life A: at any moment we can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  day with MadMatt and Nance Nance Revolution to make sure we're ready for committee. That night I edit 50 pages of copy for the new viewbook in ... 't get in it's likely an issue of space." Tomorrow's a new day. (Lunch

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  many stay in this country for life, repaying the American promise of ... in response to Trump's immigration freeze on seven nations. MIT has 38 ... 's protests in Copley Square. I took all the photos above, and the following

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  hurt, almost as much as the issues that made me go in the first place. I ... passion for science that drew me to MIT in the first place.  Before hopping ... A lot of my time this summer has been spent in transit. I take the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  issue primarily with contemporary political propaganda. As he wrote: In ... in library science: I am honored to apply for the Master of Library ... Listen: writing well is hard. It is hard for a lot of different

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

  Meta

  

  started blogging for Admissions, I wrote a number of what were basically essays on subjects that I had been thinking about for a long time, and had ... . So I started floundering when looking for inspiration. Or at least, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 10, 2006