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  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  anything to offer in comparison to the rest of the class of 2011. I was ... "peasant" of a student, not a "poet" if that makes any sense at all), but now ... you think that my sort of person can still do well at MIT, that's great

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  , blinking away the wisps of my dreams as i touch down on earth. “what did you do this summer?” i spent these three months on a languid journey of self-discovery, mostly. i did a lot of cooking, a lot of romanticizing, a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  While some of you have spent the last couple nights clutching admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been ... arrangement ever for my jazz class without being completely sure what two of the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  getting a lot of calls and emails from students concerned that their mailed ... 're getting one or two dozen buckets of mail every day. I have built a small igloo of them and am posting from inside it right now in fact. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  believe that I've only been at MIT since July of 2005 and this blog has only ... ahead into the '06, I offer this quote from one of my favorite writers ... one will get hurt." (By "no one," she meant me.) For all of you who

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  , a professor I've heard a lot of great things about at MIT! I almost ... out of bed at 9:30 to get washed up. Morning stretching; Recently I ... 'll admit I wasn't a fan of this lecture at all. The professor opened us

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  rewarding classes that the Physics department has to offer at MIT. Given the ... of Experimental Physics. Every class at MIT has an attached credit ... table I want to look at the actual structure of this class and why exactly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  Massachusetts, many of them aimed at women. Harley Davidson had a stall ... addressed me, both of us engineers at MIT. It caught me by surprise when some ... ’ve gotten better at interrupting explanations of mechanisms that I already

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  out of college, who had formerly been a bit of a track star at MIT, and I had finished watching Chariots of Fire one night at 2 a.m. I told ... soon I found myself right outside my house at the end of a cool-down walk

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  of this? Because within a few months, those little blogs, buried at the ... thousands of hits each week and requests to speak at national admissions ... didn't have much of an audience in those first months, so blogging wasn

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  at the World Cup. The Welsh are indeed proud of their Welshness. It ... talking about my “college” experience at MIT.  Preservation of the Welsh ... "] fun fact my beloved pair of red pliers got confiscated at the Heathrow

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  wonderful end-of-week meal at the appropriately named TGIFriday's. Friday's is ... course offerings. In the meantime, feel free to poke around the websites of ... I don't know about you, but I had a pretty awesome weekend. First of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  half subdivisions of very large houses - Gone out to eat at an expensive ... think "Finding heritage at MIT" is one of my best-written entries. ... prefers 9 or 9.5. Ah, the mysteries of life. Also, during term, my body is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  students at MIT?" The bulk of the reading is done by the professional full ... Today is Registration Day at MIT, and tomorrow (Tuesday) is the first day of Spring Term! I'm a little behind on the questions, so here goes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  creating pulses of electricity for the right amount of time at the right ... a lot of it is learning how to learn. At one point a TA asked me ... five hours of staring at square pulses lasting fractions of a microsecond

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  at the exam. We were tasked with memorizing a small handful of ... while I was cleaning things out for the new semester, a gentle reminder of ... .310, we were allowed to fill one 8.5” X 11 sheet of paper, front and back

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  for the first half of the summer had only one real “deadline”, and that was towards the beginning of the project. I could work at my own speed ... learned in class to the “mini-quizzes” at the end of some lectures; Tuesday

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  this year -- a number of suicides at "famous" schools made the news; thousands of other suicides at colleges went mostly unmentioned.) These deaths ... Victor Schwartz and Jerald Kay The recent suicides of college students at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  that i was bad at taking videos of myself with my phone. 10:55. 6.UAT ... ten cm of snow for around ten meters. at least it's pretty outside ... going to keep at most one of these classes. in any case, i felt deep

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  of the piece, I offer extra thoughts. I’ve awakened a deep fascination ... We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains. We need to paint with all the colors of the wind. — Pocahontas from Pocahontas I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014