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  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  MITAdmissions.org. We still are, and it's going well. I think we're ... head:  how to help prospective students (and their parents) more clearly envision their potential experience at and after MIT   As I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  just give me the facts in lecture and challenges in the homework, but an ... will stay in academia and become a professor someday, so I suppose I ... a UROP, and I am now pretty confident in sticking with physics

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  -the-potential-value-of-a-random-reciept-sentimental-types. We’ve always kind of been like this, and it wasn’t a problem in high ... and decided to give us a bag of things she no longer needed, but thought ... was a fairly large hollow ceramic mushroom. And since the beginning of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  Students and Alumni Awesome! I love that MIT is putting more of a focus on virtual reality and augmented reality technology. So what is Play Labs? Play ... , and artificial intelligence to improve video games, e-sports, healthcare

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  blocks and periods of crushing inability to blag.   But of course ... Succumbed To. 1. sloth We mustn’t forget regular old laziness and urges to do ... and said, “so...scrolling through memes on the internet? Idk about that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  and Airbnb, and shows no signs of slowing down.  A common criticism of ... about why "hard tech" startups are hard, and why they're still worth it ... established companies and other startups. Far better is to think of a new idea

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  Holy Beaver! You’ve received your letter from Hogwarts MIT and you ... grand master list of links for any and all of you going to any college at ... personal tumblr blog, other universities, random google searches, and of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  awesome people like Smyly, and I figured you might want to hear about him too :-) It's three in the morning and MIT's campus is, for once ... through the front doors. Inside, the air is still and silent, with only the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  working to optimize what I carry, so this is a work-in-progress and (2) that title wouldn't fit on the image below. Paper and pencil Antiquated, I ... .  Equations, diagrams, and graphs are no fun to try to reproduce on a laptop or

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  professor last night, and frankly everyone is just counting down the minutes ... !!!!) and saying "Forget science. I'm dropping out to be a Benedict ... ://web.mit.edu/subjectevaluation and wrote: I. Hate. These. Emails. Any motivation I have to fill out

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  have gone on. Everyone’s so passionate about their posts, and all of us ... written and well-thought out, and they tie together all the different ... you zoomed-in pictures and let you guess.   Picture #1 Wrong

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  , cofounder of Lingt and inventor of the iDoor, which I lived behind one summer and used to let my cat in and out when I was away, tumbled all these ... realized I didn't have to reminisce just yet, and pranced off to a machine

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  of time and blog. I promise I have a good reason though! Most people at MIT have these "Hell weeks" where there are lots of tests and projects ... treadmill. The treadmill just keeps going and going. You're trying to reach

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  astute readers might remember from last year), and it takes a lot more time for my brain to remember things, as I'll tend to ramble on and on like ... and a 2-4 hour a week one, all on top of four 12-unit classes, so I just

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  I just returned from a week's "vacation" with family and friends. I ... , and take what comfort I can from the knowledge that I was gone but ... your college essays. I just finished working with the MITES and E2 kids

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  't getting anywhere with my biochem studying, I decided to take a break and ... live it down. MIT Tech TV Oh - and I also found one of Quinton, from ... -matched with this Sunday at a short training session, and in just a week, we

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  or hamentaschen? The latke and the hamentaschen are both Jewish foods ... , economic downturn, and cataclysmic natural event (including the extinction of ... event every March between the two holidays the latke and hamentaschen

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  obsolete. Freshman year was intensely characterized by social adjustment and academic slacking. During sophomore year, I buckled down to work and finished ... and realized that potential social experiences would bottleneck

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  at the bus stop were demonstrating this tactic, and had chosen the ... , some of which were fashionable, and some of which were unfashionable ... tears of frustration, they crystallized on my cheeks and shattered one by

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  to use the word hate, but I’m going to be a rebel and use it anyway ... the mood to experiment? It’s kind of a big deal, picking a favorite, and ... , and she held her own with co-stars like Spencer Tracey, Cary Grant and

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010