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• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  matter of a few bars before I’m conducting along in my seat, fully ... machine, provided to me by MIT. When I’m not reading apps, I do a fair ... personal machine—a 15” MacBook Pro (2018)—but that likely won’t happen until

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  right: Nia M. '20, me, Katherine C. '19, Karen C. '20 Can we take a moment ... photo cred: Nick P. '20 Written by Danny Getting a Brass Rat marks the ... nights that turned into early mornings. It marks two.. whole… years… I can’t

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  Infinite Corridor. I used a power drill. I got my arm signed by Chris M. '12 ... upperclassmen. Don’t watch fun from a corner like I sometimes did. Finally, Random Hall has a step at the entrance. Don’t trip over it. Tomorrow you should

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  car they have is a PT Cruiser - which, although I'm not a huge fan of ... while I'm traveling!) If you ever get a chance to go, I'd highly recommend ... back home, make sure I'm all packed, and call a cab for the airport. I

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . Calculators can’t reveal that, but a better understanding, or insight, of ... ? Answer options: a) 20 m, b) 100 m, c) 500 m. Formal Model: Let ... formula for the height of the well: . A bit overwhelming, isn’t

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

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  K investment ($5.2 million today) from W.R. Grace. They went through a ... lot of times we forget that MIT isn't a static being with x number of ... Cue Monday afternoon. I'm hungry because I decided to not spend money

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  you ain’t gonna need it overthinking

  

  , because unless you already have a well-defined plan for the future, you ain't ... i'm going to make, like whether to go to mit or choosing what to do ... have to think about this decision, i'm starting from scratch. i think it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  people can’t do integrals. At this point, I ask myself a very fundamental ... forty pages flipped in a minute). I prepared. I found some integrals ... really learned partial fractions. Turns out I wasn’t missing much, partial

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  So first there was Peru, where we ate really good food (Exhibit A) and pet llamas (Exhibit B) and may have eaten llamas (shhh don’t tell ... fog shrouding the surroundings. Exhibit A: Maido - Japanese

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  IAP is a concept I didn’t really understand until last month, oops ... ’ve been learning a lot! I’m making a website with [annotation note="hi Dylan ... Period if there weren’t a lot of… activities? There are over a hundred

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  reasons. Reason #1 (a.k.a. the 'good' one): I was a debater in high school ... knew what they meant, and I wasn't one of them. This class seemed like a ... are, because first semester freshman year is a ball. My awesome pre

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  programming or other media) in a spirit of playfulness and exploration." Don't ... flocked to HackMIT to crowd themselves into a gym for 30 hours and make ... a steady flow of snacks that ranged from burritos to late

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  online event hosted by the famous Mollie (a.k.a. molliebatmit), a 2006 ... 're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year(s) before enrolling at MIT (for a gap year, military service, or other reason

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  Hello Internet! I'm briefly poking my head into the blogosphere as a ... IAP yet, and I couldn't think of a single unified topic to write about ... Lydia K. so generously created for us bloggers who can't think of anything

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  filming in just one hour with no editing, but that's not to say it wasn't a ... There is probably a meter somewhere that measures how much fun you are having at school. Or maybe it's a bucket, swinging by the handle

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  AMA Ask Me Anything.

  

  Wonderful Internet Friends! There are literally (literally!) a dozen blog posts I wish I could write for you right now but I can’t, at least not for at least another week. I want to talk to you, especially since

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  It occurs to me that I haven't told you much about what I'm doing ... to it. So, here's a snapshot of what I'm doing RIGHT NOW, at 11:52am on a typical day at work. I'm in an office with four other undergrads

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  puts "m" parts in a problem? I'm looking at you 2.005....) and not much ... to the reader). I'm struggling to keep my brain from blowing a fuse and ... why that is. Turns out, the combination of September starting on a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  to the K-pop I liked, he didn't read any of my writing. When I won a ... enough that I didn't notice for months. The car he drove was a hand ... chemistry. I had studied for him, and he hadn't even made a respectable effort

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  people. Well, we made it, and it was memorable indeed. I'm a little ... , why can't I manage a few meals? Or maybe next time I'll just go for the ... Saturday, 07/07/07, was my birthday! I usually don't plan anything

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007