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  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  of NYC is in the game. But it looks pretty dang good to me - the world ... summers to catch up on the hobbies that I don't actually partake in at all ... am actually pretty excited to see where they take the story in the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  Drinking Song, but there is another traditional MIT song (this one in the ... ). In any case, for a trip to my new favorite place, the beginning was ... much too busy laughing. By far the funniest moment to me, although it may

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  in the kitchen. somebody always makes sure the stovetop is clean and ... , start-to-finish, all the way through: melodrama, pieces in space, funeral ... time, seattle feels like home by now -- i know the way to the churches i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  sophomore who is still unsure what course to major in. But the reality is not ... . The scary part here is that most people in the class are MBAs, mid ... . We're trying to understand science, tech, design in the context of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012
• 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 / 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

  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 / 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 / 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 / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  . (Thanks, college!) But to focus on the mostly positive, here are the things ... shower for the first time in months without having to flop around in flip flops. That, and maybe knowing that all the hair in the drain is yours

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• 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

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  that tools will appear if the idea is planted in you. Learn about poetry ... equiped to look pretty in the lab. For example, I can pour a gel, then set ... academics, MIT or Cambridge?" To me, the question is meaningless. My second

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• 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 / 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  is one of the most accessible operas (The Arts Scholars went to see ... ." Why today?  Today is Friday: the most glorious day of the week. I woke ... from MIT to the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. With me were ~25 other MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• 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 / 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 / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  emulated NES games, and hooked it up to speakers in the bathroom. He then put ... to calculate the thermal convection coefficient in turbulent regimes ... AM last night, and spent the extra hour catching up on some much

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• 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