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• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the ... neatly trimmed. I call Adam to see if he wants to have lunch together; he ... . It's a pretty big transition to go from working in the lab 15 hours a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  ’t careful, and it will wear you down even if you are. The best we can do is to ... activity I’ve done in the past day. This unshakable exhaustion is not new to ... junior fall. Its extent, however, is new. How did this happen? The key, as

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  -wracking, sweat-inducing mess. We the admissions bloggers have somehow done it, and we've told you all about it. So what's the deal? This art piece ... people tended to use about their majors and the people in their majors

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  changed to toothbrush, if you happen upon me anywhere in the greater Boston ... his parents, to highlight the isolation one feels in returning to a ... they want to wear the grey sweatpants, or the red ones today. (It

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  room or common area. if you're selected, you pick a time to visit the ... , not the original, otherwise i wouldn't even want to breathe on it -- but it's still SO COOL. i brought it to the entrance to fill out paperwork

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  've come to call my home? Is it Mountain View, the city I'm living in for the ... camera at it. We can take the T to Faneuil Hall, cram ourselves into the ... much longer, it seems). We could talk about the things I like, if that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  my activity. If some weeks had missing days, it would destroy the ... highlighting and ignore the lecture. If I was scrambling to take notes, I less ... is to stay indoors nearly all the time; how lonely it is to barely see

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  applications. If that is surprising to you...then I guess the blogs have failed ... because it's initially hard to detect, because, in a corollary of the ... , because it hurts and it can't do things it usually can. When I went to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  about it. I was given rare access to the internet to find out more about ... that package? It was all I could do to balance my sanity between the ... shaky it took two tries to get the password right. And text suddenly

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  . Vacuously true (adj.): A statement is said to be vacuously true if it is ... your guide. It's so low, it's actually a member of the null set.) Now if ... I can understand this paragraph. After confessing this to myself, it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  psets and semesters. Suddenly it’s your job to define the problems and the ... ’re stuck and when it’s time to ask for help. My advisor was hands-off in the ... , by no means for the first time, that he was only paying his respects to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  don’t have the energy to do things, it’s okay if I take breaks, it’s ... always hours when it is impossible for me to work. And these are the hours ... like that every week. Maybe it’d make more sense to plot it on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  posters. it’s also right next to the lounge, which is a plus. it’s an ... students. We have a position called historian whose job it is to do research ... that someone is old if they call them GRTs. Well… kinda old, the name was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  - to take it to the next step. Remember those "Critical Thinking ... still seems to be around from the batch that got selected with me on that ... thesis mode. Now I have 60+ pages of it finished, and trying to get words

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  removed in pieces. It was saved and is now on display in the Stata center if ... doesn't really like it when students break the law. How to become a hacker ... . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  really, really know yourself, to the point that if you keep reading over ... trying to get across, then you need to fix something. If you don’t like the ... each part building upon the next. You don’t want it to get repetitive

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  asks you if you'd like to make them up any time before the end of the ... romantic (and it totally is), but if you don't get the piles of number theory ... thinking about blogging a guide to something complicated, like the HASS

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  opened the package later, it turned out to be two Amazon Echoes. Nothing ... graduate student), having never flown a drone before, took it to the beach to ... course, it was time to fly to drone. Unfortunately, half of the fun of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  when it came to the college essay, and so I strove to write an unique ... essays that don't hand the reader its moral (or "point" - so to speak ... one draws you closer to the author? It's not surprising that you may

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  the windows. for references to the hanged man, it was mainly just having ... background, though some of it obscured by the scientist, contains references to ... MBTA Red Line. But if you look closely to the sides of the Great Dome, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023