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• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  promised much excitement. Someone rolled a large TV from their room. We ... before release. (on that note, here is a VIDEO on DNA replication by our ... , as well as occasional outbursts of “Stop! This is not a DVD!” (a quote

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  ;   So nowadays, mostly my relationship with my hair is a relationship ... whenever I have time. It also saves me like $20 a month which is nice. The ... --which is where I wrap my hair in a T-shirt and just let the T-shirt absorb

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  changes and preview the short answer prompts, a much larger group is likely ... clearly labeled. While there is a specific rationale for every question that ... galls me more than most. Describing ones background as a recipe is not

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  , "Do you have a core curriculum?" The answer is, yes, there are some ... it is usually a good idea to take at least two. We will also accept ... Today, I'm back in the office (but only for a day) after doing three

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  , really. Really. How many e-mails does Mitra send me in a typical day? Let ... is at work and how excited she gets. The standard deviation, however ... simultaneous conversations about: --how we should take a trip to Germany next

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  internships i'm considering next summer is a 4-person company where the ceo ... figures in my life, like former teachers who write blogs about how covid is ... paragraph, and ultimately that is not a tradeoff i'm willing to make i don

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  nuanced problem. below is a demonstration of how he currently maneuvers his ... a selfie stick to a clamp. that is partially true. but among the ... technology (PPAT)! it's a higher level interdisciplinary course 6 class that

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  three final projects to do. I had a pretty intense week. I think this is ... game, or an AAA, is a video game produced by a major publisher and is ... for my CMS.300 paper. In terms of how I found sources, I spent a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  ," the heroes face a villain whose body is described as "an organic ... this subject. Thank you very much, Sam Much to my surprise, I received a ... domain of Chemistry 101. As a point of interest, it is worth noting that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  — the mitlwax community is truly unlike any other I have been a part of ... away from academics and work. How is your season going so far? Sydney ... have grown so much as a unit over the past couple of months, and it

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  external validation is less appropriate is reading too much into what an ... bachelors degrees elsewhere, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Oxford on a ... "submit" as the January 1 deadline came and went. For some the wait is over

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  picked it up and read a bit before my next class. Babel is a fantasy novel ... and how analyzing molecular interactions and compositions was a welcome ... truly is a gift to be a student.  Swapping out one magical world for

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  pretty much the weekend in a nutshell. Tomorrow, it's back to work and I ... getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a ... : "Today is the last day the world will only have 5 Harry Potter books to

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A New Year and a New ‘Do bryan.mitblogs.com gets a little makeover.

  

  So most people start off the new year with a new hairstyle, but since I don't have that much hair to play around with, the next best thing is to give this here blog a new outfit for the new year. What do you

  • by Bryan
  • January 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  how magnetization is like a covariant vector. Ex: Me: “Hey, can I borrow ... less I'm sure of what a vector is. Right now, my internal definition of a ... you that a vector is the Shroud of Turin or something. 2.Graduate

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  it is due to homework. There is so much going on a MIT that I cannot ... Michael Plasmeier, aka The Plaz, is a junior at MIT studying Course 6 ... the Class of 2015 Facebook Group and liked very much is called Learning

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  college. Not even for a bit! (I'm starting to think I'm always more homesick than I realized...) It's a preposterous idea considering how many ... !) and she humored me. But then she told me that she sees money in how much

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  anyone local wants to know :) It's a bit embarrassing how much cool stuff ... Master's student instead of an undergrad is that I have a bit more free ... during a busy week, I don't end up hanging out with much of anyone except

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  , is how a cripplingly shy fifth grader grows up to boldly ask an ... 're out of touch with how to communicate with the layperson, which is a ... and commit it to memory. This is for a couple of reasons. First, you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  just how powerful and true that piece of advice was. You see, as a ... !) For me, being a senior in high school reminded me all too often about how ... of how close I was to starting over, and HOW INCREDIBLY MUCH I'VE YET

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012