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• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  authentically. We can’t write about what it’s like to be in a Sadoway lecture, or planning stuff for REX, or UROPing, or deciding how to pick your ... It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I'm

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  professors, from people in S^3 (if it pertains to getting good academic habits ... actuality, not everyone has to study intensely through high school in order to get in. Personally, aside from mandatory homework that was assigned

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  tour to know I worked in Admissions instead wanting them to get pay ... 've heard Alina's story, I'll need to drop in on the others guides' tours to ... skulking in the back, in the red shirt...listening to every word!

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  in learning how to CAD simple objects. No more 30 minutes of screaming ... stuff, and voila you get to see how aerodynamic the original object was ... it would, one of the many cool things you get to learn in solar car

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  you meet with them every once in awhile to make sure things are going OK ... students in a kind of mini-class on some random, fun topic. (You get a few ... , MAS.A17 (Designing Technologies for Kids). Basically I get to play with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For ... tune in to lectures and access course materials and stuff. I thought this ... I used to be really passionate about in high school -- which mostly

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请

  

  traditional Chinese characters, in the hopes that it might be more accessible to ... that was my [annotation note="Audacious, in retrospect, given that I had been an admissions officer for a single cycle."]attempt[/annotation] to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  to because they came in the mail. In tubes. We also walked six miles to ... be scared together because in six days, I'll be six days closer to ... : Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II! 1. Consider majoring in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  : "Would you mind answering questions to a student in highly interested in ... of the "talk list". Most living groups at MIT, in addition to having ... . e doesn't get used nearly as much, in my opinion. sure, there are

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  was foreign to me, and I naturally feared getting burned. But after ... ’ve grown close to the people in the club: those who are just as eager to ... ="aligncenter" width="400"] learned how to use a bunch of sensors! an anemometer, thermal

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  each muscle in your body, and understanding how to create something ... year knowing three new ways to juggle and talking about how I was being cross-cast in the IAP musical. To be honest, the only reason why I started

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  Previous me wrote in a blogpost that I "did not want to write about ... obliged to finish. That was a great tactic back in middle school, when I had ... other one about Vikings that I had to read because I was quarantined in an

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  one of the hardest things to get right in math pedagogy? [annotation ... useful skill is figuring out how to interest other people in solving your ... . The reason I want to emphasize this is because of how incredibly

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  that. Also, my little sister just got permission to get her first tattoo in the coming month, so I felt suddenly inspired to get one now. It ... parlors in Tucson was open, probably to cash in on the stream of people

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  of commercial failures of the 20th century which, in addition to ... there once, crouching in the Devil's Den and pretending to be a famous ... to turn in your permission slips!), you're going to see the High Water

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I Feel Cool Welcome to MIT, Mr. Gates!

  

  at the Gates scholars, who not only got to meet Bill Gates in a smaller, more personal setting but also got to sit directly in front of the stage ... does it feel like to be one of the richest people in the world?' I'm way

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  so much that i will never get the chance to do, and that hurts in an ... (x/2) of them are getting done; a semester of scraping by in everything ... 1.30 am) just to turn in floor(x/2) of my assignments. some days are

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  .  "Perfect!" I thought to myself, "I did MIT, I can do this! Besides, I get 6 ... increased my distances until I was ready to run my first half marathon.  In ... stress fracture in my left foot.  I had to completely stop running from

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  tl;dr: Look how empty my Firehose is compared to the other bloggers ... expanding to fill its container. I am enrolled in 45 units, which is 3 ... responses to the question "How many hours did you spend per week?" I tend to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to ... anything, trying to get things done but never really starting. In the process ... because it only charged my phone up to 31% after being plugged in all day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020