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• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  -supporting adults do. The illusion of adulthood: it continues. In the last month and ... ; naturally, 99% of the words spewing forth from my facehole have been ... – they're not great – but as the blogs already have four years of Keri

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  and journeyed down the five flights of New House stairs because MITSO ... : MITSO and Concert Choir concerts are free for "members of the MIT ... : they were an accessory, not the focus of the play. Henry Purcell was an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  "crew chief" who has a lot of experience and runs the calls, and a second ... enough experience to work as second riders.) After a lot of exploring the ... .... I'm the newest member of the IS&T (Information Services and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  , anyway. Sure, I’ve seen demonstrations of the photoelectric effect and the ... metal cylinder with a cluster of tubes running out of it. Nothing like the ... anniversary of modern quantum mechanics – and the stars have aligned in every

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  bound up with the concern that not being at the top of the class will ... just for the sheer joy of it -- the better my grades became. I don ... I would have still felt like I needed to be at the top of the class

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  , regardless of when the application was submitted. In each of the past few years ... College (Jan. 6), RPI (Jan. 1), and the University of Chicago (Jan. 1). For ... the midyear grade report. You can download one off of the MyMIT website

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  understand the true meaning of the word “hosed”. Here is a post exactly in line ... . Below is a list of ten of the best spaces for both of these activities ... overall, the Law of Conservation of Sleep (or the Work-Tiredness Theorem

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  't want everyone to be the same -- part of what makes MIT exciting is ... , piercings of all sorts, bare feet, tattoos... We tell both the interviewers and the application readers to be careful not to fall into trap of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  factor might be that the presence of other people forces me to think at a higher level of rigor than i’m used to the other day i called a stranger ... math problems, but none of these are actually indicative of the kind of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  elsewhere. For me, this is one of the most important blog posts I've ever ... amazing, it is amazing not because of some occult magick embedded in the ... comfort at the time, and it's one of the things that got me to continue

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  I wrote the majority of this post a week ago, then slept, and lost my ... Minutes  -Number Systems of the World -Morphology: All About Affixes -Game Theory, or How I Learned to Stop Losing and Love Math -The Cities of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  Compared to the previous, this semester was less tumultuous, more of ... up at the end of every semester: learning more from my classes, exercising more, being more on top of things, etc. But I think I did the best I

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  adding more of these... i use gcal constantly, in stark contrast to the ... time i push it back, i'm aware of it through the physical action of ... the future. for example, here's a screenshot of this week, which is

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  , the application process in general, and moving forward. All of your ... understand the power of your words, and your encouraging comments have been ... city skylines, come for the incredible music scene) and Randall Munroe of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  The start of the semester was comically reminiscent of the first day ... , was. By the end of the story I had inched halfway around the table to ... evolution, religion, our relationship with machines, and the future of human

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  sent back radar images of the surface. We got to see the images shortly ... writing - a rather different style of exploring the world. At JPL I was ... visual ways to get across the energy and fun of doing science gave me yet a

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  . No, really. To all of the recently admitted, and any other hopefuls who ... of the year when life explodes in your face. Currently, I am in one of ... hate that my 2.005 final exam came with about half of the necessary

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  live as a human being and not a human doing. Here are some of the things I’ve learned to value, through the eyes of my younger selves to now ... , there are “better things to do with my time”. I’m proud of the fact that

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it ... like you're living 5/3 of a day every day the week before Thanksgiving ... one of the turkeys; Bryan (our Graduate Resident Tutor, a biology Ph

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  . There were about twenty of us in this cohort and we had basically have the ... ever realize," she started, "that none of the boys ever stay to clean up ... 't want that fate. For the rest of high school, I realized it was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020