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• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  paved my comfortable life in college-never too far from home, so that if I ever did get homesick in my apartment, I could rush home and eat amazing Mexican food or hang out with my siblings. Life was good, but I was boxed in

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My schedule .

  

  thing you learn at MIT is how to manage a heavy courseload. The last thing you learn at MIT is how to manage without. I believe this. If you're a ... lol, it's good to be a senior. 3:30am MANDATORY EDIT: In all

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 16, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  's. Back in the Fall of 2002, I set out on a journey that is still ongoing. I ... school." To me at that point, it was like this castle in the sky. I didn ... or anything of the sort, but I did know that sometime in the spring, I

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  would definitely do my PhD in, if I were to come to MIT for grad school ... research in Cambridge feels a lot more relaxed, and also because I ... [by Kathy '09] Hi guys! I'm here to talk about "life as a biochemist

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  she saw me wearing the ring in the wild (and I gasped in despair at how ... , only for it to ultimately reappear under the couch.) I don’t know how ... (while I blush at them saying how impressive my academic background is

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  normal art songs, I thought that mine would be the weirdest one in the class. I was in for quite a surprise when I showed up on performance day ... accomplished pianist. I think my rule faltered in at least a few places writing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  support staff, were funded in part by IBM, How is timeshare computing ... infrastructure in their own homes. That's how Google serves it's hundreds of ... professor Fernando J. Corbato at the MIT Computation Center in 1963. Today, in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  Last semester, I met W.M. in one of my classes, 3.019 (Intro to ... half the time! I stood somewhere in between – respectful of their ... in awe. I’d met many brilliant people at MIT before, but W.M. was on

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  little free library while I was living in my van. I wrote a poem here and ... called it — and I thought, why not? We met on Sundays at 10 pm for me in ... would begin with typing up the poem I’d handwritten the previous day

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  paper I read in 14.11: Experimental Economics reports that too many ... ? What do people think about this Nike+iPod Sport Kit? Vote in the comments ... announced a Nike+iPod Sport Kit partnership. This part doesn't make a ton

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  would’ve meant the world to freshman me back in high school. But as I ... before leaving. In that moment as I was waving and watching him walk back ... really on my own - not just in the fact that I was flying by myself, but

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  . What should I do now? Should I send in extra materials? The only thing ... preferred, and a lot faster than mailed updates. Should I send in a whole ... Hi Everyone, I was just taking a look at some of the questions on

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• FAQ / Transfer

  Am I eligible to apply for transfer admission?

  every year. Unfortunately, we’re very limited to how many students we can ... in your first year of college, the earliest you can apply to transfer ... of entry to MIT will have completed more than two and a half years (i
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  In honor of blog post number [latex]6283 \approx 1000\tau[/latex], I ... easier. (I still sometimes convert radian angles given in terms of [latex ... then can be expressed in terms of tau: [latex]e^{i\tau} = 1[/latex

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  It's ironic that I post this entry now - Matt just posted an entry about deferring for a year, and here I am giving you information on how ... it already?) with lots of information about...things...To be honest, I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  more about how to enact change—not in some grandiose, ego-fueled "I want ... accomplish this year: Cherish my close friendships. I entered MIT in September ... graduating this year. I can't wait to see them do amazing things out in the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Enjoying the Little Things In which I ramble about happiness and taking breaks

  

  In lieu of posting about any huge on-campus events or grandiose life-changing moments (of which I've had none in the past two weeks, to my knowledge), I ... , we went on the Green Line (I know I said Orange in the video... it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  I'm briefly emerging from hard work in the application mines to share ... of ideas about how to continue from which students may choose. In some ... them in peer-reviewed and other publications, * understand how these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  I'm in a cool HASS (Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences) class this ... ). If you have any ideas on how I can make this letter to President Obama ... graduate from MIT with a degree in mechanical engineering and, frankly, I

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  consider {insert town name I have never heard of} a small town in their ... lived experience. However, I can help you think about place and how it ... the inherent strengths of this experience. So this is where I come in

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025