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• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  most important of which is the Great Court. That's the place I head ... reading your applications so much and it came to me about the time I walked ... ...each piece of information in your application folder, is like the piece of a

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  classes, I tried really hard to keep this in mind. But the pressure to take ... 're going to be dissapointed. Because the reason I dropped physics is... I ... whose name I can't remember say, "is the perfect example of when too much

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  , because right now in your life SO MUCH is going to change SO QUICKLY and you ... Today is May 1, the conventional deadline for admitted students to ... from the archives related to this decision, the one you're nominally in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  This morning I went in early to image neurons on the confocal ... 't have to explain to all the postdocs what a "blog" is -- but I forgot the ... 's relatively universal is that the receptors are anchored to other proteins

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  -step calculation: . The latter formula is easier to understand and much more ... smell the aroma? Formal Model: Formally, the answer to that, , is ... problem is way off. Despite the complexity, it fails to provide a reasonable

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  what I am proud of, is the fact that I've managed to put in these hours ... For most people, sprinting a mile in under 5 minutes is physically ... -six back to back 4:45 miles.  How do they do it? The answer is that they

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  ) understand the material is okay, especially in a class like 004 or most high ... 's a good question! The answer is that, for 6.004, you have to write your ... in this together" feel - this is one of the least cutthroat places I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  there are a lot of questions in the comments and I'll definitely get to ... that enables one little boy to breathe in a hospital in the suburbs of ... you who want to come to MIT and explore in the name of all of this

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  people seem to think that the most important thing they'll learn in college ... most succinct advice I can give is from Adam's dad (my future father-in ... learn at MIT will be how to fail. Okay, one time I said that the most

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  adaptation in general is dark, cynical and hopeless. I think the only way to ... as a character? The effect to which this is addressed in the movie is ... blogosphere, rest assured you’re in the right place. It is Elizabeth here. There

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I ... us in the Admissions Office the weekend is more about getting ready for ... that are most important to you, the parent, so don't be afraid to ask for

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  life is about the day to day, the work you do each day to build towards a ... eleven, not until you're almost twelve. That's the way it is.” working on ... phases of my life. a while back, i was waiting in atlas to get my ID card

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  ones did, in the sense that I’ve had to do much more struggling and ... taking that seminar to learn about the ways in which math is applicable to physics. The main trend I have noticed is that math in college is much more

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  :  "Success is to be measured not so much by the positions that one has ... to show you why MIT is not the goal. From The New York Times, &ldquo ... , because I never seem to pick boring applications out of the pile. In fact, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  the work of William Faulkner is set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. 3. The third-largest city in Ireland is called "Limerick." ...and ... I had not the greatest week, but tune in tomorrow for my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  , and while the weather leaves much to be desired, there is still a lot of beauty to be found here. The sunshine drenches everything in ethereal ... to two companies, one in Cambridge, Massachusetts and one in the San

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  works the way it does. It is the best, hardest, and most fun big-game in ... and need to start over. That is a kind of type 3 fun. But in the Big ... 🫠. But because the point of using only simple words is NOT to make

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  to be the one to decide what the best use of your time is. I'd say most ... This is a long one. Apologies in advance! First, a quick response to this... I'd just like to remind folks that blogging is not in my job

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  general, the food is much spicier than I’m used to, but I still think most ... Assam – it’s famous for its tea and it’s home to the hottest pepper in the ... intuition, was able to straighten the 1/4 in mild steel shaft to near

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  , recording—all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in ... I spent the morning in a café, working. I planned to get things done ... boundaries. I have to learn. The following is a fragment I wrote this summer

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014