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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  .) So last week, I decided to make up for it by...doing a 9.00 essay? How ... 've got a 5.12 p-set, an 8.02 p-set, and a 9.00 test - all to be taken or to ... yellow badges, which are to the A.A. Martinos Imaging Center what driver

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  a telling laugh my first introduction to psets, and realized that I ... I had a WEEK to do, only had 5 problems. This was going to be a piece ... they have way more time to finish a task then they need does, and I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  you could see the stream of numbers you needed to sum up one at a time ... store 2,3,9,15… in memory. For this blogpost, I’m going to talk about a ... probability as a value between 0 and 1 assigned to events. When you flip a fair

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  we started a Black Student Union in our school to build community, but ... ). I cried because I reflected on the time I went to a small carnival in my hometown during high school and had to run from a shootout (to be

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  A few weeks ago, I had the best weekend in recent history. Of course ... unexpected details go a long way in raising your spirits. For me, that little ... going to make me happy. Every semester or so, the MIT Press (located to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  the office about the deadline, so let me take a moment to answer some of those questions, and to provide a bit of advice as well. Please be ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  was too young and stupid to know what a postmark was. That's probably ... clothing (a la Gwen Stefani). Sorry, trying to find motivation to keep doing ... "abogado," or "lawyer." This is because the Spaniards who came to the New

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wow, work! Mid-IAP update.

  

  took a week of going to bed at 8PM and getting up at 4AM to shock me back ... from French homework to sit down and write to you, but I think it's time. Class has been going well. It's a significant effort commitment, but it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  understand who you are - in context. Remember, we don't get a chance to meet ... connect. Crafting a class is similar - we go into painstaking detail to ... As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  title of the film, Monkey Dance, refers to a classical Cambodian dance ... Mira Nair came to speak last year and kind of offered my friend a role in ... Julie Mallozzi to do a screening of her film at your school. It's a great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  a number of different course planning websites (and apps!) to choose ... makes it really easy to explore. Do you need a course 2 class that counts ... 's probably the easiest way to find a simple list of classes in a particular

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  sandwich and a Honeycrisp apple that my roommate gave to me after apple ... the mind, to dissect a problem down to its fundamental components, then ... truly is a gift to be a student.  Swapping out one magical world for

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  Louisiana that left him with a hard-coded aversion to any kind of violence ... to science education and best known for its eponymous robotics ... introduction: to the tens of thousands of FIRST participants around the world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  , do not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with their ... especially at MIT, there's an urge to see a social problem and want to build an ... the humanities, arts, and social sciences. I'm really glad I go to a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  . So I'd like to begin by giving a shoutout to my grandfather, who, in addition to being a WWII vet, was also ordained as a nondenominational ... that, I won't be posting quite so much. But I did want to take a moment

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  truth. Yes, folks, I'm about to tell you the truth, and man, is it a doozy ... with a free sticker that said "HUG ME, I DONATED BLOOD TODAY" stuck to my ... , guys, I joined a cult. I really didn't mean to; I guess that's what

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  Tabacco sought to teach organic chemistry in a rapid, compendious, yet still ... to the right, we got more than a little excited and decided that Dr ... fluorine was a good nucleophile or if it was possible to do an SN2 reaction

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  I was walking to the Pacific Science Center with a friend one ... F/A-18s overhead to the percussive expression of a man in a pug mask ... newspaper racks have recommendations on which newspapers to pick up: Wait a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  up early from a field trip at the Pittsburgh Zoo to go on a road trip ... travelling is stressful and twelve hours is a long time to spend in a room with ... didn’t want to wake. Megabus, for leaving promptly at 3 am, minus a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  I decided to come back here a little early to go see an AMAZING concert and spend New Years in a place that I wasn't allergic to. (No ... like it. I have a view of the Media Lab and of the construction next to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008