Search

Search Results

• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Pictures I took in 2017 This post took 16 hours spread out across 5 weeks. I ... 6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi ... to go out and record my adventures. I’ve gone to some events

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  isn't always predictable in a class with more than 200 students. I fell ... realized I wasn't enjoying it anymore. In a past life I would have taken the ... and didn't recognize her. I realize that the class took up a shelf in my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  usually go in the back door when I'm late but today, TODAY for reasons still ... 'm really sorry. Errrrkk. I'm going to.. uh, yeah. Sorry. You actually can ... is if I'd maybe dropped through a trapdoor in the ceiling onto his head

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  around in an oversized fish tank: ‘I can’t wait to get out here.’ When the ... two years, I faced a number of questions. This was due in part to my ... seemed absurd. Me? Sure, I had good grades and I work in a lab

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  , but just in case I run out). HOWEVER, (and this is where my advice goes ... Over the years, I have discovered that just about anything can be ... quite as much as I love DUSP. But still, it's a lot). So when I found out

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  power in the airport went out as if to say, “Hey buddy, welcome home.” I ... power keeps flickering in and out, and I’ve had to remind myself that ... displacement I can’t quite explain—like whatever was cycling around me in MIT has

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  crawled closer and closer. I had been sitting in my little call station ... ’m not interested in giving to MIT,” he told me. “I’m sorry to hear that ... is; firsthand information from students can change minds.) “Well, I

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more than anything else in the world. I had already submitted my EA ... was saddened as I walked down the Infinite Corridor, had lunch in the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  and back on again. So I go to the #1 tech school in the world but I can ... its true. I can sit in a room with [annotation note="heck, even a ... textbook a lot of Psets are done through. I did well in Calc BC in high

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  applications all day, everyday in physical isolation for weeks on end can be ... in need of a second opinion. When I’m really desperate for human ... work for committee. I was sitting in Dean Stu Schmill’s office, which has

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  ’s eye, in front of which I unfortunately can’t make out my sights, even ... weaknesses (working under pressure) turned out to be something I can be good at ... very good at replica plating. The first time I replica plated, in 7

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  now, and I can affirm that the only parts that I truly feel confident in ... is unfortunate. I probably could have got a lot more out of an in ... that took up a lot of my spring and summer, but I made it! So in this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good ... point in keeping that rejected feeling alive. That and I really don't like ... Moses... Anyway, in a similar but distinct way, the word why can be

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that ... recitation to revise problems or figure out problems I couldn't do on my own ... , less frustrating, and more fun. But I don't know that many people in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  Sooo I wrote about pouring my heart out into a research conference ... olivia rodrigo"]brutal.[/annotation] Which in part I’ve been expecting. I ... scientists is to pump out papers. Conferences can only accept so many papers

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  Canvas, so Stellar might be in the procss of getting phased out. Regardless ... . Reaccs I didn't send that many messages in most of these chats. However, I ... much between chats. I was a lot more active in some chats than others

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  interested in writing, mathematics, and computer science. It turns out I can ... the end of the semester I found it hard to get myself out of bed in the ... without considering the circumstances. It turns out that I can take 93 units

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  obvious mountains to climb. I can walk in any direction, or switch ... sometimes. I haven’t figured out if stirring is important. When the milk is ... in the world can have breakfast or building cities or improving

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  am the one thing in life I can control.” The single most formative ... out pretty well for you, didn't it, Washington? The statue in the ... a school you love is crushing, and it can often be framed in the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  inevitably be done in the twenty-four hours before it's due. Procrastination, I ... procrastination. I could claim I had seven hours of writer's block, but in reality ... -sleep around 1am, I set every alarm in my room to an arbitrary time between 2

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010