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• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  still linger in me, and I can't wait to see everyone again in the fall ... gap year, though, I can assure you that ignoring those hesitations was one of the best decisions I've made in a while. Before I dive into what

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  can today. In Marsha’s memory, I will continue to advocate for the ... admissions officers and college counselors were discussing how we can support ... markers of excellence in their application and I will understand that their

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  stitching together a support network. In retrospect, I realize how important ... University of Marburg. In the morning, I will walk for twenty minutes to my ... ’t forgotten me, but here’s a quick review: I majored in physics and graduated in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  In the old days, when I was in college - when dinosaurs roamed the ... Facebook didn't suck - where was I - ah yes - in the old days, when I was in ... can play it, and you could set the buttons to play certain notes in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  These are cheat sheets. I found them in my backpack this last week ... . Also I made this graph. And if it’s in a graph, it must be true. In ... cheat sheets is no walk in the park. They can take hours, predominantly

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  't get in, because I'm not a genius. 5. Can I have some life advice? 6 ... MIT? 2. What does a day in the life of a physicist look like? 3. I ... pursue in math/science. 4. I'm worried that I'm never going to find a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  magnetite in their bodies that they use as compasses."]And how can they always ... tried holding out, but I was young and wanted to fit in, so peer pressure eventually made me cave in. “Okay, fine! … but just one page.” I closed my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  called "hyperfine splitting", for the reason (as best as I can tell) that ... yet, somehow - in a few hours, I would be running around the kitchen in ... currently means that I faciliate our participation in the intramural badminton

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  I can spend 16 hours straight in the shop soldering my PCB boards* and ... how cool and entertaining everything was I remember her looking me dead ... A friend of mine ended up studying lit at a nearby college here in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  Admissions (and taking off the tie that I wore today!). In a nutshell, here ... them. We do selection in subcommittees, usually of three people -- I ... MIT, you know what I mean), we can usually reach consensus after a bit of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  how many unread emails I had in my inbox, decide to skip my HASS class ... up happening and I can never exactly pinpoint where or how. I have to ... ’s “bad” in a vague or general sense but I guess I trust whomever is

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  so cool. I sat in a lecture and it was! But dude. You can just drop a class. I would, in a heartbeat, tell any underclassmen friendo that you ... else, I want to make it clear that in my opinion, the class itself was a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  , right? So let's see how I do. Feel free to ask in the comments for ... contradiction, you can prove anything. I had fun doing this in middle school by ... of people. I've definitely succeeded in that goal, both at Senior

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  morning when you can't understand how e-mail works?" Heck, I'm almost ready ... ... with Pine I can go through spam in like a third of the time of webmail ... Much like my one-time alter-ego Javert, I've always seen things in a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  MIT folks and wherever else MIT folks. I bet one of you is in space ... was just two months ago. That's how I'm spending today.   Here's how Commencement went for me. Because I wasn't graduating this year, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  .  Here's the main lessons I took away from his talk: How to know when to ... reactor startup targeting goals 7 years in the future, what can you deliver ... subsystem that you can deliver in 3 months?  Small wins build on each other

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Independence Day Fireworks in Boston Hobbits watch beautiful fireworks from comfort of dorm lounge.

  

  of the fireworks. I apologize in advance for our witty banter. I’m much ...   Yesterday for Independence Day I was a hobbit. Cory R. ‘14 and I ... enough adventure for the day. I wanted to photograph the Charles River for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  . in a previous post i wrote about how an mit.nano class made me feel ... obligations make me feel like i have weight in the world, like i’m not ... fulfill me in different ways, and i need all three to be really happy me

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  I checked my Timehop today and saw a tweet about how I was stressed ... should read more poetry for class. - Where did I leave my bike? In senior ... of two strings in cool patterns. I first got introduced to poi during

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  to have things sort of figured out in my mind, so I can say something ... ’ve realized in the past semester that I can be really hard on myself. Sometimes ... , and in the last few months, I feel like I’ve lost my way more than I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017