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  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  9:30AM-5:30PM: [redacted] 5:30PM: walk home in a daze of decisions ... 'd give you a window into a day in the life of reading applications. We ... least if, like me, you're a fan of both productivity hacks and science

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  points. If you lose control of your attitude, two things happen: (1) you ... is one of the most crucial parts of flying a spacecraft, which is why they’re equipped with suites of sensors and actuators dedicated to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  I’m standing in front of my presentation boards, trying to string ... diagrams I can point to. The panel of jurors judging our architecture studio mid-reviews sat three feet in front of me and I can already tell they

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  So, by a show of hands, how many of you are stressing about college ... that’s a lot of you! Last year around this time I wrote an entry called ... a read, because I give an in-depth account of how I managed to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  engineering that was based off of my initial comment that I've never experienced ... 'm done with all of this deep discussion about admissions and learning from ... lot of time to show me things. (Each crew must have at least 2 people- a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  = verb for using the lathe to machine something) a pin for the pedalbox of ... . I didn't do nearly as well as I had hoped. There were a couple of ... plain left blank...but the cool part was that I got nearly 100% correct of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  : "Did you have to do the lab by yourself? no lab groups? Speaking of which ... individual, not as part of a group. However, you are allowed to collaborate ... with a lab component), have lab groups. Some have a series of smaller lab

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  never-ending busy season of reading applications! So it's not like I don't have a lot of other work to do right now. But as I've been chatting with ... caffeinated because I don't like the taste of coffee, I usually prefer

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  every blog I've ever blogged has come directly out of frenzy it ... gremlin takes over do any of those ideas make it out   all creative ... of ideas   in another life, I could have been a painter (I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  of 3.5 years of hard work in our 2.009 Product Engineering Process ... rest of the semester. It was tough—missing out on presenting tonight ... presentation slides. It has been fun being the team cheerleader! I’m so proud of

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  junior year of high school, I fell in love with the T. It’s not the best subway system in the world, of course, but I remember riding the Red Line ... about the minimum number of T stops you’d need to pass in order to go to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes 'What the hell is water ... experiences.  Within our large and exceptionally talented pool of applicants, students routinely produce impressive academic portfolios of achievement and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  one There's this thing called a "cruft house", when a group of MIT ... Bunker. The first night the three of us moved into our new place, I insisted we come up with a name. The three of us-Sathwik, Rohan, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You should get this bundle right now definitely clickbait

  

  game bundle to tell you that you should buy it. Here's a list of some of ... building a CPU out of simple components. It's not for everyone, but if you ... bi vibes. The Majesty of Colors [caption id="" align

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  Around this time of the year, we're always told to write something ... vulnerability and sharing that part of yourself. College admissions is a volatile ... I also know, though, is that there is a certain merit in all of these

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  happening back in the Philippines. Here, it’s ever present: news of gruesome, unjust murders of black people, and news of senseless police brutality, every time I get on social media, every hour, every day. And of course I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  from home, like the weird practice of tipping, or how there’s functional ... . The leaves changing color? Happens too quickly. Really, so much of the big stuff I’ve already seen or heard of through the American films and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  ... Whatever’s in the top ten of the U.S. News & World Report rankings ... the number of people who have died from laughing too hard I decided to write about something that gives a good sense of who I am and what I value

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  We're big fans of Spotify here on the blogs and have been for awhile ... -inducing chance you might get sued for tens of thousands of dollars for the effort."]hard music problems.[/annotation] Last week, a (non-blogger) friend of mine

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  lovely springy pictures. This was drawn on one of the public ... the dome decoration is here.) It must have taken a lot of work and it ... , East Campus lets us store things in the basement free of charge, so I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019