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  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  is usually that the other water dispenser on my floor in the office is ... that. I want the MIT Admissions Blogs to remain a platform for positivity ... this unhinged ranting to say that this blog post and the water in my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  --students narrow down their course selections to somewhere in the 4-7 range (usually ... -day schedules! The math department is located in Building 2. In my previous three ... offices were in building E17 (the "E" means "east"), which is incidentally

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  all day. You haven’t slept in weeks. You arrive late to lecture. The chalkboard is already covered in equations. The desks are covered in equations. The walls are covered in equations. Your notebook is covered in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  pretty excited for the evening when we got there. This is actually him in ... go! Well, almost... I think this is Luke in the middle of saying ... don't know about the giant rocks on campus...), but he even had to go as

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  -anyway take. Table o’ Contents
 The most important thing is to figure out ... helped, but is not necessary) MIT was the most helpful in figuring out ... /bioengineering grad programs. 1. The most important thing is to figure out why you want

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  reusable set of utensils everywhere. The concept of layers is foreign to me ... whispering faintly in my ear, warning me not to drink the tap water because it ... had to wait for a natural break in the traffic before you step on a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fresh Food! Here at last!

  

  from noon to 6 p.m. on Tuesdays in the East Campus Courtyard near Walker ... . 12:37PM: Even Lulu's cat wants to see what all the fuss is about. I ... student has got to eat. In fact, all college students need to eat (hopefully

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 31, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  ’s fall but the weather is still nice. We go to a nice part of campus and ... September 1st may have been one of the most simultaneously ... like 1+1 is starting to seem like a challenge. Day 1 of September rang

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  are realizing what it means to be in the center of all this vibrant ... to see the world and take in the fresh air and ride that bike and surf ... routine is what makes the darn thing so compelling to begin with! Oh, boy

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  server in case BRB'd friend cared enough to keep reloading the page in ... thread: How much do I like MIT? The best answer I can think of is, more ... actually means, but it definitely relates in some fundamental way to the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  the expense of my social life/sanity? Also, how much do students tend to ... and i hope to see you guys there." In the same comments section, Fiona ... . Since the Harvard Bridge is so close, and many people actually live in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  drizzling in the afternoon, so I went to Jahunger – a Uyghur restaurant that ... pouring outside. I didn't want to walk in the rain or call an Uber, so I ... 've eaten at the most in Boston. It's a Greek "fast food" restaurant right

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  mostly in brick and mortar stores to avoid contributing to the labor ... made the apple sauce."]having too much to do to be able to make ... Culture in Sci-Fi Worlds. The topic this week is “Resources, Territory, and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  video series intended to debunk the myth that blood is red in your ... workshops with guest lecturers to teach us about the style of edX platforms or ... the most unique biology classes I've taken here thus far. If 7.s390 is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  them in vivo. But as cool as it is to simulate circuit designs, the goal ... , but it has also been one of the most rewarding. In just a few short ... matrix multiplication (which is used heavily in machine learning). On the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  living in MacGregor House, I used to live relatively far from the laundry ... decided to "deep clean" MacGregor. This meant that, for the first time in ... of them. I ended up having to pay for a storage facility in the area

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  -deprived). the idea in this paper is that we can trigger oscillations to target and ... capabilities in creative ways that i’d for the most part never considered before ... . (the most plausible explanation for why they did better on the tasks is

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... .2%) I also asked them to choose the most important characteristics of a ... tons of nooks to study in on every floor of building 9 (except maybe the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  students who are matching in the same year are guaranteed to be ... years, Kathy and I have traveled to some pretty cool places in the last 3 ... way to get my passport to the west coast in 24 hours (mainly, I wasn

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  -- to what extent outreach is valued in the scientific community." Neil ... question was about how outreach is valued in the professional scientific ... public the most, and I call up colleagues if I don't know much about it. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014