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• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  waking up at 5 AM for Skype calls thanks to the time difference), began the ... searched the job postings and email lists for something to tide me over the ... also frantically looked for stuff to do) that said, "Keep Calm and if All

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  adjust to the rigors of MIT. “ Marcel Williams If you've been admitted to ... program for his junior year that would allow him to merge the arts with his ... fluorescent glare in the school library, to eloquently preach about how the

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  subjected to load and which eventually causes it to fail. Based on their findings, creep could be reduced to the point where concrete could last for ... from the industry, which currently accounts for estimated 5 to 8 percent

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  she would have failed as an instructor if we are not able to contribute ... if she gave the most eloquent and expressive lecture. We, being MIT ... multitude of platitudes when Professor Maier calls on us to explain the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  limit. Unfortunately, this appears to be the limit of absurdity as fun ... Dinnerware: Total Stealth fails due to lack of volunteers. This is the ... . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wanna be on the Radio? Your name in lights.

  

  Did you ever try to call in for radio shows? Ever want your five minutes of fame? Well here's your chance to be a blogger. Seeing that my ... you to write a blog entry about your CPW experience. If you

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  about, or if we would be able to hold a conversation,” petey writes in the ... the most normal so no one can make fun of me?” if i went to mit, i ... “smart girl”, the drive to never let people down. first-gen american guilt

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Time to Enroll You have doubts, I have gifs

  

  to college in the fall and can sleep soundly. But making a choice is ... . If you don't want to take my word for it, comment with your must ... outside my office).   2. I don't think I can handle the curriculum at

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  recognize them as the closing act). I never ceased to be amazed by these guys ... have to make money somehow, right? (Actually, I don't pay the fee ... 've been wanting to blog about. THE SHARPE BROTHERS A while back, on the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize? Vote for your favorite MIT professor!

  

  pick to win a Nobel Prize this year? Vote Now on Facebook The "nominees ... ; Bengt Holmstrom (Economics) Theory of the firm | Contracting and ... One week from today -- on Monday, October 8 -- the Nobel Foundation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  hours? We listened to the keynotes — one by a startup making smart ... to be internal. We scraped together all the information we could find ... devoted myself to the project without worrying about other work I could be

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  /post-docs who just so happened to be discussing the fire alarm incident and ... WILL be included in the final grade calculation only if it makes their ... take-home exam will be taken into account and may bump you up to the next

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  decisions will be out this weekend. The Countdown to Burnout is ticking down ... training, and there's no time to dwell on anything else except the feeling in ... the world. The wind blows through your hair and the ground seems to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  course, if I start failing everything, I'll have to drop a few ... mit is as a prefrosh, to a rising sophomore whose gone through all the ... it. I guess now is as good a time as any to ponder the intricacies of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  's DDR equipment and set it up in what used to be the "game room." He and ... Bloggers of old have written about the "101 Things To Do Before You ... , if they're me. My friend Daniel '12, on the other hand, used his list

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What I just did You'll never believe it.

  

  be quite good, and cheap. I clicked on it and was taken to the ever ... the score from my last test. Can you say "fail?" I can! Oh, 2.005 is "Thermal Fluids." 8 minutes ago I discovered the answer. MIT subscribes to

  • by Snively '11
  • October 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  community to be a smooth journey. The process is inherently one that requires ... growth that has made me the version of myself I am proud to be today ... mistake. Be ready to put in the work, even though it will often be hard

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  smart and when I called them from the airport as I was leaving in September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the ... " is not the end of the journey. The next couple of months will not be

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  "Communication Systems and Networks", or as I like to call it, "How the Internet ... Is this what it's like to be an upperclassman and only take classes ... ", or as I like to call it, "How To Write Good Code That Won't Kill People

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  the chosen few. They begin to wonder, in other words, if they were a mistake; if they really deserved admission. To the members of the Class of ... interview - I frankly expected the students to be, well, a bit insufferable

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012