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• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  were as a member of my living community, the Burton Third Bombers. I had ... "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were ... submitted a pset within five minutes of the deadline twice. Only twice, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  of dirty laundry. I print out my p-sets for the week. While I’m at it I ... ’m running out of socks. I spend an hour picking out socks on the Internet. I ... something often academic in nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  representative of the rest of my blogs =D  not to be cliche, but there is truly no better time to have friends than in college. the experience of living ... "]rpm[/annotation] dinner. the timing of it was lowkey early for me (4:30, considering that

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21E our major in a diagram!

  

  about the requirements of 21E, and were inspired to make a diagram, sine 21E can be confusing. So, here it is, filled out with the classes we've taken to meet the req's! Legend GIR = General Institute Requirements

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Take Your Blog to School Day Vol. 1 Standing waves and FIRE!

  

  about some of the measurement and instrumentation tools that mechanical ... as velocity profiles in a pipe or internal pressure of a soda can. Professor John Leonard teaches the class. His research interests involve

  • by Bryan
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Other summer programs A further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors…

  

  & science summer programs for high school juniors to consider. All of the ... Since my earlier post on MIT's summer programs was linked from the MIT homepage today, I've been getting lots of traffic interested in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Announcement] The MIT Bloggers are hosting an AMA! Ask us anything this Friday and Saturday!

  

  of people based on a specific topic. It has its roots from the r ... ; The MIT Bloggers are hosting a 2-day [annotation note="If you don't know ... AM, I'm going to make a post (on the MIT Blogs) called "ASK US (the MIT

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  !” like five times"]ChatGPT[/annotation] and the previous version of Bard were never able to tell funny jokes (or give the correct window count of ... something along the lines of “20 HV, which is about as hard as paper, so not

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  outside of school on the manuscript. My mind wandered in class—I was ... the Deal of the Week so my face was on the front page of Publishers ... literary dreams; my editor, Jen Ung, and the rest of the Simon & Schuster

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  of event. The pre-frosh are all very exciting, and I enjoy being ... speaking, I already am a sophomore...o__O Yet, the density of my experiences ... optimist. I believe in the good of people. I believe every person has good in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  other people. The change wasn’t one of moral goodness but self ... into the root of her resentment—but she’s unafraid to make that angsty ... Recently, one of my friends relayed that she grew up in an

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack to the Future all futures have a past, and all pasts have alternative futures

  

  26 years ago, Doc Brown and Marty McFly traveled 26 years into the future, arriving in the same place, at a different time, to save the future ... to the future.         Like many

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  about your future. Then write a song about it. Preferably in the style of ... through the next 6-ish days! Hope your Thanksgivings were full of food and ... friends on the fourth floor have Guitar Hero II) was part of the reason this

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.

  

  first regional meeting of the year, Thursday night in Orlando/Winter Park ... for you? We will of course talk about admissions, including the ... these meetings can look like. Doing the regional meetings is one of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  , in exchange for helping take down what's left of the wallpaper in her ... had planned to go to the dinner mob of Nick "Nim" Martin '03, another 5 ... Coolidge Corner Theater to watch a showing of episodes of the 1999 TV show

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  the toilet. In front of me, next to the door, was a featureless white ... the middle of a shopping mall. It was two in the morning, and there was ... distance, we counted seven skyscrapers, felt the sides of the mall towering

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Admissions Decisions Available Online Visit decisions.mit.edu to find out your decision.

  

  speak for all of the admissions officers when I say that this has been a very difficult early action process because of the large numbers of very ... ://decisions.mit.edu. You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  over break to escape the Boston weather, but spend half of the break in ... holidays because a lot of our extended family doesn't live within a drivable distance. However, the one tradition that my family does have is our annual

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Maseeh! A look into MIT's newest dorm

  

  that is a blend of the other dorms' cultures here. The diversity is ... As you may or may not know, I'm a Maseehdonian (aka I live in the new castle, Maseeh). Since it's the newest dorm on campus, I don't really

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Student Center and then trudged off to the basement of Building 35. Along ... than just an aesthetic wrapper, but rather as the core of a product that ... manufacturing videos shown in lecture. It's learning the details of fin theory in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014