Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  Hello! What’s up Homo sapiens sapiens? To everyone I’ve met this ... be broken up into two sizeable chunks: the first 6,681 days, and the ... algorithm for getting into MIT. Hopefully these general guidelines can help

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  for the final competitive round, I realized that I was coming up on ... to be part shameless plug for my website CourseRoad, and part ... strolling through the Infinite when I came across a poster for something

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  coded a ray caster for 6.837, the computer graphics class that has been ... the image we end up seeing, but if you modeled rendering that way, you'd waste a lot of computation because most photons wouldn't end up making it

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  Today, I will p-set. Really. I wake up at 7 am. I shower. I try on ... of dirty laundry. I print out my p-sets for the week. While I’m at it I print out past exams for my next three organic chemistry and genetics

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  for 36 hours and then wake up and microwave some leftovers and spend the ... from the masses purely for comic relief. But what drives us bloggers and ... through our scientifically rigorous work, for the sole purpose of clearing

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  away at problem sets, preparing for exams, and pulling all-nighters had finally moved from the present to the past. But, for some reason, this wasn ... until commencement. Unfortunately, those were three weeks for my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  saw Alina when she came to pick up students for tours after sessions ... makes sense when you think about it. I arrived on campus for freshman ... need a tour for, I was "living the dream" and could find everything I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  images and digitize its public image. (Grapevines for the curious: Polaroid ... instant Polaroids just like Grandma used to do for her scrapbook. I still ... I will skip, except to note that one of the proposed designs for the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  . Small things add up here. Where you study can make a huge difference, for ... reading the blogs for years and visiting campus during CPW, I thought I had ... warmer locale than Boston. Unfortunately for them, I am currently sitting

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Otra Vez, Como Siempre Some J-Pop to cheer you up. =p

  

  do so likewise this year for you all EA'ers! *[ also = もう一度　いつまでも - though I don't think it will show up on the URL =p] Can't believe it ... enjoyable drama (to waste time on while procrastinating for psets, lol =p) and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  What's up? Yeah, it's the end of term, and we're all hosed. The week ... crystalline side-chain block copolymers for actuator applications". That's a bunch of big words for a simple idea. 1: Attach liquid crystals (the

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  while I was hosed it really doesn't look like I'd put up my next entry to until about a few weeks after I graduate. Also, I made fun of Ben for not ... six chapters for my first exam on Tuesday. So, there'll be an entry

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  breakdown for five minutes when I realized I was going to college with a couple hundred geeks. Luckily, MIT wanted to pay for my trip to CPW, so I went there with this “what the heck, they’re paying for it so

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  an MIT professor, Rodney Brooks. To pay for research, the start-up ... the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, he played a key role in steering the Human Genome Project to completion. Heading up the Broad

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  Cornell and she is responsible for some of the biggest lessons that I ... a tough sell. I thought that all I had to do was to show up and tell ... ethnicity openly and honestly. Don't just play up the school's strengths, but

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  -credit class that meets twice a week for an hour and spend the rest of my time ... meets for 9 hours a day 4 days of the week. That sounds like a plan ... working on the same puzzle for the last 4 hours answers the phone. "Hello

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  college card, which, as you've been told many times before, is given FOR ... "Symphonie Fantastique"--the one that got him hooked up with actress Harriet ... at Harvard and only came to the BSO to get off campus for a few hours

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  , and as I enter, the all-wood space opens up to a giant staircase that I run up, two steps at a time. The colorful squares covering the walls on ... ="104830" /] As the school year progresses, I find myself leaving Simmons for class

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  .) In a weird convergence of universes, I ended up teaching a class that Ceri TA'd and Yuliya took, and we all ended up making episodes for season 3 ... . AWESOME. Let me back up a bit. See, back before dubsmash and the Doge meme

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  pay hundreds of dollars to pick up. So I went to the society fair, signed up for a dozen more mailing lists than I should have and tried my ... . Patiently waiting to be interrogated and yelled at for misplacing all my

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014