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  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  positive much more clearly than I would be able to when I just felt as if I ... draw from in order to get the information I needed in order to be ... you also obtain the skill of being able to critically navigate through

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  causes all the tapes to be erased. Left to their own devices, the pair is ... just recently came to visit us at the begining of February to screen Be ... are having at school. Or maybe it's a bucket, swinging by the handle

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  and informed the balance that we will not be able to admit them to the ... yourself. And if you spend the next few years trying to make wherever you are ... ; You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions Don't stress out!

  

  have yet been exposed to. Don't blame me if you fail your classes. Dr ... shall provide. This list is not intended to be comprehensive by any means - if you have suggestions, let me know! Webcomics xkcd The classic

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  reminding me to brush my teeth; on the bathroom mirror a note would remind me to read the note that would be waiting next to my breakfast. This is ... brain be put to better use than a repository of the Ruff Ryders Anthem

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  as if i was expecting running away from home to be that magic switch ... likely to fail the second. cj: … dan: just stay with your parents for the ... : to be clear, i didn't know, at the time, that this was my coping

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  the platform, such as the aforementioned fact. If we ever hope to be run ... the potential to make us very well off! Even if you fail, you’ll have ... hire. This is where we want to be 2-4 years down the line. As a mental

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  the two of us? Ken did say to call if there was anything we needed, and ... awesome little class that I like to call Toy Design. Also, if you can wrack ... . The show is claimed by the promoters to be the largest toy trade show in

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  can be great experiences for the right sort of student. So if, like me ... roaring and happily shocked students never fails to make me smile. The 3 ... . No one at my small high school did research, and we had, to the best of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  Nice Try, Caltech Hacks > Pranks :D

  

  to be finishing up right now but due to the extreme bloggability of the Caltech prank (ahem - "failed hack" - the Tech definitely calls it as it ... Hack at MIT I managed to snag one of the fake papers that, as the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  being lazy speakers. It's a slang contraction for "going to." But if you ... 's easy to see how verb conjugation arose the same way. English seems to be ... awesome. In content, anyway. The author tends to ramble on a bit, and seems

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  soccer team, so if you want to play tennis, you will definitely be able to ... test scores for academic credit. These tend to be the humanities and math ... goes to the effect of, “If MIT doesn't accept AP credit, what's the point

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Shoe Technology out of the MIT STrIDE group

  

  revolutionary technology being developed at MIT by the Self Treading Insole Design ... incoming hazards and obstacles. The demonstrated use case is to avoid ... Researchers Develop Self-Stepping Shoe From the article: "The smart device, an

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  revolution and its consequences...[/caption] If you were lucky enough to be ... minutes for me to have the misfortune of using a Bevi machine. (The reason ... that. I want the MIT Admissions Blogs to remain a platform for positivity

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  . :-) Next Monday, we'll be going to the MBTA Control Center on a field trip to ... . ;-) So what are we really supposed to be learning in college? The practical ... (Hey, I never finished those entries from the summer, so I have to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  ? So what if you're not smart enough to enjoy that stuff (I'm not smart ... . To be quite honest I was 2 weeks ago leaning toward 8-B for the option ... 't be concerned about the difficulty of majors it's all about what you

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  come from that question? It was so simple, yet had the potential to be so ... , confusing everyone, making weird sounds, and refusing to be consoled until it ... sometime before the New Year’s countdown. Thinking it was just to wish me a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  overtook me. I could not do math. I failed to comprehend chemistry. I wrote ... unpredictable times in the evening. I’d immediately sit down to compose frantic ... to focus on symbols when the body wanted only to escape to bed. I began

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  , he asked how we felt about the pset. He wanted to know if it was too ... changed the length of psets to be shorter and be more manageable. He was ... to have failed 8.02, funnily enough, because it led me on the way to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  wrong abstraction". It turned out to be the right call, because the ... , yes. But to be honest, coming into the internship, I wasn't sure what ... to be? I only needed to break down the task to the level of my highest

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022