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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  ’d be the person who answers your frantic phone call and then tells you to check if your computer is plugged in. It turned out that I wasn’t able to ... shortcut truly is. (There were actually lines in my notes that reference how

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  which we get to keep. Even those that are stored in some nook or cranny in ... my “formative years” in Orange County, I’d like to think that the years leading up to my second grade move to California played no small role in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  less productive; the joy in just getting to spend time with friends, even ... piano a satisfaction in being able to play decently well, surprisingly ... of desperation as you get closer and closer to the end of the day; a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  are you going to get the legislators in Washington DC to care? How are ... ...etc.) in the Atlantic Ocean from 1900 to 1999. Just in 99 years... Source ... who had begun to specialize in different subtopics. At the end, these

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  no good. So the new plan is this: I'm going to go in and observe ... getting in to MIT. I feel your pain. My senior year involved a lot of things ... a comment stating just that. Are you guys just out to get me or what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  have any say in how things were run. I didn’t have big plans to do ... about how to address certain longstanding dynamics in the house that ... MIT, I always think back to one song. There are a lot of songs in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A point to clarify

  

  In response to my last entry, Drew asked: "So, how important is it ... be in now because it's not easy to get into some dorm in the re ... demand and not easy to get into. However, you should NOT go in with the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  outside, a cup held to his chest. In response to my jumping in fright and ... anyway. He went into the bathroom to get some water and I returned to our ... , grinning. We say “wow” in the same way—long, drawn out, typically to signal

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  MIT. It's sort of contradictory - how many people go to summer school at ... weeks before I shipped out to Harvard, I was participating in the National ... . Cummings and, after explaining that I was going to be be in Cambridge during

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  needed to get back on the grind. From my [annotation note="though in many ... to learn new skills and think in new ways. I then proceeded to spend ... desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  answered here, it was probably lost in the transfer to the new site ... interested in a varsity sport, but I definitely didn't speak to the coach until ... So I was wandering around facebook today and I discovered this new

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  's impossible to see everyone at ISEF, especially only in a single day, but I got ... 's and then headed into the symposium halls to give a talk on how to talk about ... their project in simple terms for the intelligent layperson, and to help

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  ) real analysis seeks to, in addition to other pedagogical goals, teach how ... rigorous, and really hard. Like, it's meant to be a class you can in theory ... expected to 1) learn hard material, 2) learn how to prove hard material, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  seem absurd at first glance and obvious in hindsight, so you get used to ... give both balls to my friend, one in each hand, leave the room, and give them the option to either swap the balls or keep them in place. then i re

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  little more training than a stapler) to put two new holes in my ears. A few ... point came when last weekend my friend Ami ’14 decided to get a cartilage ... from the horrible bleeding, only to get an infection that would last the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  always having baked goods to offer. She studies Course 6-3 at MIT, but in ... -make recipes with the rest of the world. If you're interested in learning to cook ... guide to getting groceries as an MIT student. I’ve been quietly

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  A letter for you (yes, you)

  

  find what you like about MIT in other places, or how best to showcase your light to the world in new and different ways than you may be ... about your lives and how your individual stories have brought you to this

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  ...honestly be better than I am but it's good to get in practice since I never do ... software development: how to write software that is safe from bugs, easy to ... I have some interest in AI but if I fail 6.006 Intro to Algorithms

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  need to think about what each word means, and how to arrange them in a ... remember how each word is announced. I also want to vary my tone of voice ... . For example, in our codebase we use Redux Toolkit. To understand the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  brand-new ELL. It’s fun because we get to think outside of the box and try ... of things we’d like to see happen in “our” ELL: bigger groups, greater ... volunteer learned that he or she was to role-play as the Director of FEMA in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012