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• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  calculate. LaTeX. A typesetting program that makes the documents you write ... ) problem sets using LaTeX. If you want to go into computer science, it would ... , and doesn't hurt your pinky from pressing the control key for everything

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  to your peers. Everyone at MIT has something to offer (you do too ... to communicate appropriately with peers in difficult situations has ... learn how to communicate with a variety of people, but you will also learn

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  or the big success of a small country La bande dessinee belge ou ce qui fait la grandeur d'un petit pays Willem De Graeve Deputy Director, Belgian Comic Strip Centre Directeur Adjoint, Centre Belge de la Bande

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  MIT apart from other institutions is the incredibly stimulating ... guy getting his bagel from LaVerdes could be a MacArthur fellow, whose

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  name of your undergrad institution and more with how you make the most of ... for fighting. It’s on institutions, not individuals, to ensure that PIs ... did From an Institutional sense, MIT didn’t convince me to Do The Thing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  the crew with a couple questions and offered to set up lights or wrap ... of jawbreakers. 1 hour and 4 stores later (La Verdes, Shaws, CVS, and ... are the things that I want to learn, but MIT will never offer a class on

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dell-icious. MIT students and the Dell Social Innovation Competition

  

  '13 came up to deal with the problem of inadequate communication and ... ease some of the health and economic troubles faced by the people in La Vaquita, Mexico. By working with students from Instituto Tecnológico y de

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  an institution that appreciates you and understands why you're special ... -Conner Anonymous '15 - "You want to attend an institution that appreciates you and ... name on a diploma doesn't define you. Your life, experiences, and how you

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  assume that other people's brains work the same way. We can communicate ... took nursing in college. She took the NCLEX and got a job offer somewhere. My father was a professor, at the time, and got an offer for a research

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  crocodile in Barataria, LA Houston, TX Baton Rouge, LA San Diego ... Tapps, WA Between Vancouver and Victoria, BC New Orleans, LA ... Tulane University, LA Stanford University, CA Princeton University

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  offered frequently throughout the week for multiple hours at a time, as well ... coding." Turns out, Jay had been an LA for some coding classes at MIT and ... number of times, and, based on the number of presses, the system will look

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  Rats featured this little fella named Zappy, who's served as the de facto ... , about what people were doing. Justine offered a ride home, so four of us

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  respectful, more generous, and more kind. The diplomas start at 3:23:45. See if ... summer. When they offered me another chance to get involved in the program ... guaranteed admission into a program that grants a Harvard University diploma

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  would get a job offer in America that would move the whole family. It was ... through [annotation note="General Institute Requirements: classes everyone ... . So even the structure at an institutional level can be geared towards

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  Caltech, in Pasadena, and in LA.  Oh, and speaking of LA, one time I was ... collaborations with people at other institutions are great for feeling motivated

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  offered in it). And our Engineering field is Course 6, or Computer Science ... to code better from TA's and LA's, all of whom are students here and ... the same way, by living in office hours and learning from TA's and LA

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  -weekly offering of free food; even though the food (wings!) has been in the office ... generally still tons of people when the Munchies – basically snacks from La

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  Center: the ESP office, the SIPB office, La Verde's. Lobdell and La Sala, W ... get to know someone. We can talk about institutional change and the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  As some of you probably know, MIT's motto is "Mens et manus", which is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn ... 'll be better at that after 6.002) and solder. I can use a drill press, a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  student around 7.50 pm, I noticed that the LA who covers 8 to 9 pm was ... to the 6.036 LA "I have to go -- I need to go staff 031." And she

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021