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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  . You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 ... to the students in my CMS class about the RIAA lawsuits that were

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  hell if I know what’s actually in any of them. While I finish packing the last of my clothes and move onto the items in my desk, the same questions that have been floating in my head for the last few weeks resound once

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  ; You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  I can't sleep in. I don't have any early-morning obligations – I just ... 'll crash hard in the afternoon."][/annotation]. Last year, I wouldn't ever ... grants me a rare solitude in my suite kitchen. The counter is clear, all

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  . As I took my last midterms, handed in my last rounds of psets, and ... my undergraduate career, or perhaps ever too.     But in ... our goodbyes and promises of keeping in touch and future reunions, it

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  many hours and in one more hour (it's midnight rn) I will drive to ... staying in Cambridge for Thanksgiving, and I understand why now (so much ... deadline to remove from your transcript any class in which you were currently

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  wanted to teach about Love is that it was my primary game framework in both middle school and high school! While I didn't do anything worth while in middle school (except for some dumb game about passing bills in congress

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  -of-Semester exam I'm taking the day before I fly home, and 2 session exams in mid ... final papers -- due in mid-June -- to count for the majority of our marks ... examinations. Throughout the summer, I'll be interning in the US, and won't be

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  it done in time, but that left me no time to give a good go at 6.006. i ... 't have enough hours in the day - not enough energy - not enough days in the ... need something to snap me out of this stupor. --- working in boston

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  neither one can hide that I usually live my life lost in abstract ... have never made before. (Gershenfeld is also credited in Minority Report and Big Hero 6, and in the spring he teaches "How To Make Something That

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  art projects (like @tinycarebot), are earnest, lovely things in the world. Jonny was also just profiled in the New York Times on the occasion ... . Jomny finds friendship in a bear tired of other creatures running away in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  guys in the control room screaming with joy. I had just finished up an ... everything about aerospace. However, as a bright-eyed freshman in an ... that could be found in almost every corner of the institution. Although

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  , accuracy) and understanding the compromises settled for in attaining this ... ,3,9,15,...) and told you to find their sum, you might store all the numbers in ... . In fact, you’d only need to keep track of one thing, the running sum

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  that Iron Man talks to in his workshop), which I assembled (from ... set foot in Simmons was during CPW when I was given a tour around the ... college is quirky than by saying you live in a triangle? I had the room for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  During my college application season, the adults around me (in ... —I mean, these tips certainly make a lot of sense in hindsight, but they ... , I love my parents, but this was neither helpful nor encouraging1. In

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

  . Course Picker: here, you can log in to save and edit your schedule for the ... styles. During Orientation, professors in various departments will talk ... . Adding, Dropping, and (Not) Failing If you feel overloaded in the beginning

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  graduate. In other words, this is for life. Fear not, though. After ... referred to by your username. "In some circles on campus, you may become ... hypothetical student named Alyssa P. Hacker: alyssa (Every once in a while

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  ranks in Waze), I'm doing pretty well! I summarized my life after school in my last blog post so I'll just do some quick updates this time ... a while.  I'm the Lego guy. Sometimes I just grab people in the air

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  ; After a long Saturday, my friends and I found ourselves chilling in the ... sky was breathtaking and relaxing. In the distance we saw an unusually ... thought of visiting this building we could see in the Cambridge skyline next

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  August 23, it means: Um...yeah, year is almost over. Might as well start in ... HAS ITS OWN GRAVITATIONAL PULL!!!! HELP, I'M BEING SUCKED IN! AAAAARGH ... ’t quite sure how to start up the New Year. Should I eat till I was blue in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014