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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  has the benefit of being in the middle of the week for those of us who ... , November 22nd Waking up on Fridays involves quite a few glassy-eyed stares ... essay writing fun for an entire semester! Because it is a writing based

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  decision for me and I might have hunted for wifi at intersections. When we ... didn’t, carried my laptop up to my room, checked either my MIT or Caltech ... still works. I felt that I had passed a crossroads. For about six years

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  lab everyday for over 4 weeks straight. I’d wake up every morning ... for about two weeks at the beginning of this year until MIT was like ... of liking it. It’s like dress up. Only… with… your life. And this is

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  - that's 21F.704, 7.02, and 5.12 for all ye eager beavers) this week ... last 40 hours because of studying for the test). Sigh. Any hints on how ... don't know if you guys remember when you first learned Calculus. For me

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  out what works best for you as you go. Sometimes you end up dropping a ... entered the lottery for advising seminars (and may apply for one of the ... designated time for you to explore MIT to its fullest, to test the boundaries

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  , he is admitted to the Class of 2011. Let's back up for a moment and ... Indulge me for a moment. How many times have we seen the movie in ... FOR THAT MATTER) ALONE! (Except for Justice Clarence Thomas who claims

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  every day. I actually do cook for myself almost every night, but I haven ... go out to a restaurant for dinner. I haven't been to one of the dining ... elective credits for that exam? Information about that can't be found

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  Manus staff from last year (Seth, Jess, and Robyn) for setting up the ... , so I'll save my leave for another blog and instead focus this one on my ... throw up.  This joyful state is most provoked when I stroll through

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  note="Definitely did not sit in front of a computer for hours, feeling guilty I didn't work well, before giving up to write"]I lacked the ... inbox. But for some reason, I opened this little unsuspecting email

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  say time is flying. Take for example MIT. When I was a first year, 100 ... slow. Then, I was a sophomore, and that eventually took up 50% of my ... this.) Now, of course, there are milestones that break up your life into

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  ’ve worked for this since I was 19. Every up and down, every choice, every loss ... Wait. Why am I here?  For those of you who don’t know, I actually don’t work at MIT anymore. I actually haven’t worked at MIT for a whole week

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  elsewhere, and who write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for ... pop-up book portfolio that talked about all of my high school science ... I ended up having a wonderful undergrad experience continuing my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  don't know”, what if I end up really liking the material for the third ... /art-development/writing job. And we are going to work our way up to computer graphics for the ... For this blog, we are going to try something new with format. Instead

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  IAΠ wherein another blogger deposits her January photos (but this time it's in late February)

  

  For a good portion of my first ever IAP, I explored ancient sites in ... areas in Athens   people added for size comparison     in case you were hungry for more columns       that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 22, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  .189 Intro to Python to get up to speed for 6.01 in the fall. Even if you ... .189 takes up the entire month. You could also just start coding things for fun ... to adopt a new syntax.\n") print("So how do you start? Do you pick up a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  were plenty of people I could root for as they walked down the aisle proudly holding their diplomas for the rest of the undergrads to envy ... , wasn't it?:P When President Reif came up to speak, I'm sure more than

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  where I work. For that month, I was under the impression that very few ... ). It took me a while to work up the courage to take a different bus to ... was one week where three or four times, I showed up seconds after my bus

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Events

  LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.

  

  come up with a vision to change the world and a plan to put that vision ... President for Institute Affairs and Secretary of the MIT Corporation), who led ... days. They actively asked for our feedback and tweaked the program to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  for detailed jewelry work, Mike walked and began to suit up. Telling us ... known for it's legendary professor Walter Lewin, 8.01 is the crux of ... game. For me, this is one of two classes that I take mainstream. What

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  of which is apartment hunting. Bane.of.my.existence...for most of this ... -thoughts about the broker we were working with...because we sort of pulled up his ... if the landlord is authentic...we should be okay...So we set up an

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011