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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  . Or maybe drown. But it would be exciting! In fact, while I wasn ... than ever. But I suddenly became hyperaware of how often I was working on ... Minimum Spanning Tree. But despite the lack of stress, I was aware of how

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  -person interview would be difficult. Of course, I prefer doing in-person interviews ... ! 1. It is not a test. I'll tell you how much we ECs know about you as ... when I get feedback from the Admission Office about how "helpful" my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  outside, preferably outside of urban areas--I would never call myself ... embarrassing yourself--a year ago I would have been so self-conscious about the ... kind of week I've had. Lots of deadlines, meetings, late nights, acne

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  When I think about my time at MIT, my first thought is: it still feels like just yesterday (I graduated in 2013). Last year, I had the ... — and it all still felt like home.  Okay, all the places I loved to eat

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  . If I was really hard core, which I am not, I would only read Spanish ... atención a causa de los cambios de idioma![annotation note="I would not ... underestimated because of my cross-registered class. Why am I taking so many HASS

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  if I thought DEAPS would be fun. Would it be fun or would it be a waste ... lights. (I was temp'ed in EC during CPW) How much is the real MIT like that ... and 8 nights was the itinerary, if I recall correctly. We would camp in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  , and oddly-formatted emails.  I've been reading a lot of job descriptions lately, and I've noticed that recruiters regularly provide "success ... when written well (i.e. when written by actual employees and not HR), a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  ) + (when I) asked Zach how to solve a 8.02 problem and Steve how to solve my ... QUOTE: “I think MIT is the closest thing to Hogwarts on this planet ... wonder what I'm still doing here. It's true, what am I doing here?. I can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  need to; I would only consider this if you were planning to do so during ... would recommend reading about their experiences. Can I call / email / owl ... otherwise, the decision would be different. I understand this ambiguity can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  times. These are some of the things I loved and would like to repeat, and ... content during the psets, which would have gone more smoothly if I did the ... , however, has fallen by the wayside. I knew this would happen at MIT but I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  also had to complete a series of unfortunate events that would show how ... I'm finally recovered from the Mystery Hunt... here's the "official synopsis" of how the Hunt went down: The hunt began with teams gathered in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  I am sure that many of you have read blogs about Greek life from some ... . Please click on the links to visit our national and chapter websites! If ... created an organization that would not only serve as a voice for women in an

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  As much as I hate Twitter, I think I'm going to follow the trend of "micro-blogging" that has apparently hit MIT Admissions this week. See, I ... the way, I probably have a dozen blog entries that I've planned and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  instruments I was arranging for would sound like in real life. Twelve non ... versions of research papers, I would have thought this an eternity. But ten ... and consecutive nine hours of sleep in a long time, I learned how to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  would feel understood. After seeing Firebringer I had a brief stint of ... the first weekend of real performances. I thought acting would be like ... your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  proportional to how much my ears hurt. Also, because I didn’t expect the glass to ... converting the signals they receive into chemicals. I would like to thank my ... This post is about the classes I'm taking - and is a case in xkcd

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  Behold. I attempted to vlog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObQfChNMUvM I was bored and the weather outside was nice, so I thought I would go ... . Yes, his name is Frank Gehry. I have no idea how I forgot that name

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 23, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  2008 that I genuinely learned how to be a person. Where I learned how to ... of these blogs. At first I thought keeping a blog would be a silly ... . I haven't revisited these blogs in some time; the public ramblings of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  're obligated to blog about it. Me: Definitely! But how can I construe it as ... ultimate altruistic troll, but I bring it to you for a half-reasonable reason: this weekend reminded me of it. Several weekends ago, I was having

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  would post this today, I'm going to keep myself from adding any more to this behemoth of a post.   I also don't know how to end this post ... I started watching Friends a few weeks ago. I thought it was going to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023