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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  implications. I chose the subject of college admissions and how the computer is ... When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when I "grew up." Having been a computer nut since age four, I happily

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  mine and I decided to take advantage of free dance lessons offered at MIT. Initially, I was actually a little confused when I looked online for information. One ballroom dance website had the lessons listed on Mondays and

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used a ... to teach me how to use a sewing machine. As practice, I made this ... making longer stitches, which would be required for a fancy dress, I tried

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  experimentally, what results I got and how I interpreted them, what I would do next ... undergrad app stress and [annotation note="I know how you guys are ... I appreciate. I'm not one of those people who rambles on about how

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Hey Guess What Guys!” That's what!

  

  I've got about an hour before I'm forced off these blogs temporarily so I thought I'd squeeze in one last entry before decisions came out ... that's the kind of thing that tickles your fancy, then I have a nice

  • by Snively '11
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  buy juice (the one flavor I’m not allergic to). We split up somewhere in ... would succeed if he did, because I am very good at guarding packages, and ... . At some point I take a break to go to Shaw’s with Cory and we buy

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  discovery. I spent my first few months on campus checking the UROP website and ... , exploring new areas and finding your niche. I figured that this would be as ... world. You would think that access to millions of dollars of lab space and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  to walk how we want it to. At the end of the month I'll try to write a ... Well, my two weeks of no IAP agenda have come to a close and I ... third day of class and I thought I'd show you a bit of what I've been up

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

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

  

  remember how each word is announced. I also want to vary my tone of voice ... I'm learning is how to increase the level of abstraction I ... enjoyed the feeling of "learning how to do things": I feel so powerful

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  I would concentrate in, having taken three different subjects in three ... would be so happy if I could show this in a way other than my MIT ... having done enough to qualify for this major, I've shown just how strong I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  out of fear that people would judge me for how weak I was and also just ... 's How I Take Care of Myself at one of the most stressful colleges in the ... of how far I've come. I remember the sleepless nights in high school

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  that the legend would have both the word and it's raw frequency (how many ... her omgomgomg-I’m-so-excited hand gesture. Then Allan did his omgomgomg-I ... people if that wasn’t clear yet. The first step was figuring out how to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  . As I recently wrote in an op-ed piece for the higher ed website Inside ... Championships in a few days, I thought I would share a bit of my experience with ... next year. So this time of year I am asked all the time for advice on

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  about how Mitra and I were going to run the Boston Marathon. And then I ... through the last 6 miles of the 2007 marathon. I remember Lynn '05, and how ... in a saucepan just to see what would happen. I remember meeting French

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  ended up with. I originally thought this would be a quick post to write ... really, really like postcards, and so I buy a lot of them, and sometimes a ... 's appointment, right before I went to Best Buy to pick up a [annotation note

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  arrival... I'm wondering how long I can get away without buying a real ... atmosphere would be great. There definitely isn't one answer, but I'll give you ... fun, and I would really encourage everybody to think about doing it. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  taught me exactly what I need and what I don’t. Much how extra stuff weighs ... telling me how I should behave, or role modeling ‘typical’ behavior, I was on my own clock. I tried many different routines; sometimes I would

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  had a problem.   In my head, work is an escape. Working is how I ... do not want to do; working is how I run from my fear that nobody will ... -and-chug than I would’ve enjoyed, and I wish that it had gone more into matrix

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  class website. Okay to be perfectly honest, I took the basic outline for the website from Professor Dyatlov's site I had used that fall. But ... there isn't a world in which I would give up the opportunity to teach this

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  free food—that reminded me how much I enjoyed exploring MIT for the first ... , I wanted to highlight a few pieces of general advice I had :) Explore the different dorms!  I knew I wanted to live in Burton-Conner as

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024