Search

Search Results

• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  interest in during college, it’s a bit laughable how many areas i explored and how irrelevant many of them are to what i currently do. in ... feeling stupid. avoiding embarrassment as in: i worried that if i changed my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  Hi, all you folks out there in Blog-Readership Land! I'm at my mom's house in Kentucky as I write this. Thanks to the people who wished me good ... process. I've made some effort to keep up with current events in Admissions

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  9:30am: I'm not blogging about admissions today, because at noon the 2007 Mystery Hunt will begin! I'm going to try today's entry as a ... about the Hunt, one of my favorite events of the year. In short, Mystery

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  talking to my dad about my job - this job - and how much I loved it. I told him how lucky I felt to had the opportunity to do it. My dad, in his ... has to say (seriously, go read it). But I wanted to hone in on the point

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  . How can you identify the jar of empty mollusk shells by performing only ... Hello Friends! I am back with my biweekly vlog update, quite late because I am lazy have been preoccupied with my schedule. I've been

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  It seems like every six months or so I discover an MIT video that leaves me in awe. This time, it is the I/O Brush: [I just realized that Laura blogged this almost two years ago! Where have I been?] The I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  a personal anxiety: “I felt I should start something now so I can go ... , MIT students can spend IAP teaching students in other countries ... invested heavily in research,” he said, “and I hate that our people are still

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  conference started in Seattle that now has a Boston branch. I went last year ... . But how can you not with promos like this? She discussed the rise of ... to their proper locations in the timestream. (Side note: I really enjoy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  tap to the head. "No!! Dio mio, at this point, I don't know how many ... epic Journey. I spent two hours in front of that painting, jotting ... University there that I hope to stay for a bit in LA and visit her before

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is nothing new. Usually I enjoy the walk, but when the weather sucks or I ... ="aligncenter" width="550"] yeah i mean why not[/caption] If we can build roller

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  admission to MIT.how can i improve them.? any help would be highly appreciated ... , but I was wondering. What's the policy on non-MIT-students being in ... times. Personally, I can't recall having heard of anyone being hassled

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  haven’t actually given an admissions tour in a long time. I ended up ... minutes long, and I won’t take offense if you skip around or watch it in ... . Yes, his name is Frank Gehry. I have no idea how I forgot that name

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  your secrets? I can pay you in almonds (my parents sent me a bag of ... came to a close, I packed up all of my belongings in under 3 hrs, and ... I last appeared in any capacity on the internet. Though I do intend to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  I think when you haven’t written a blog entry in almost six years, it ... first to graduate — I graduated with degrees in biology and brain and ... that Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast. So, in a fairly literal sense, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  to your professors. I found myself in ESG (Experimental Study Group ... ESG to stay in the program, ESG can be only about taking classes or it ... freshman advisors are your teachers! After Chemistry I'll just ask Patti how

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  explain the kinds of things I learned, in a very simplified manner, as a ... , and see what types of models can solve what kinds of problems. In effect ... halt and say whether or not it's in the language but it can also

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  the original pictures. I panicked. Every picture in every entry was ... -O-N-E. I began thinking of how I would explain this to everybody, but instead ... bed early tonight. Things I'd like to blog about in the future? - Toy

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  ago I landed in Austin, Texas to start an internship at Lumension (they ... in classes but it's something you really can't delve into until junior ... there in an environment where I could ask people detailed questions about

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  in a not-so-random fashion. How much time should I spend with my host ... questions you have in the comments section below, and I will do my best to ... myself. How do I make them feel assured that I will be okay? I went to CPW

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  ! See if you can find them in the archives!) Mikey, as you can see from ... and such. Then she asked me what my plans were for the break. "Work," I ... students to attend than ever before. And I'll be working with the web team

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011