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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  , is taking a little bit of adjustment. Speaking of adjustment.. This ... intimate setting. How intimate? Questions I ask in ESG classes on a daily ... miss, because Dr. Berkwoski is hilarious), but attend a recitation in ESG

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  to say, was a little wistful. Like how Tim Gunn cries at the end of ... while going over a bridge, and how Mitra basically carried my sore legs ... could crawl inside and run around under a spray of water, and how I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  The college admissions process is often compared to dating. It's a ... you've made a choice that is right for you. The only thing we ask in ... , learn about their lives, fall in love with many, but can only choose a few

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  application. Is that possible? In addition, how much emphasis is placed on SAT ... ant06 wrote, "is it okay to get a recommendation from a teacher who ... -of-state schools. How important is class rank in terms of MIT admission? If my rank

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  -hello? Cheerful guy at the front desk: Ma'am, there is a taxi waiting for you. Me ... good to breathe. As much as I love MIT, it was a relief to get away. I ... be on time for my 8:10am flight. I asked the hotel to give me a wake

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  ! 1. It is not a test. I'll tell you how much we ECs know about you as ... is really not bad at all), just over a quarter done with my third year ... become -- --- OKAY, so there IS a point to this entry! Here it is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• 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 / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  "Running Store" category for the past 5 years. I'm not sure how much competition they have in this category, but a winner is a winner. The store ... obviously not prepared for this. This was on Boylston, which is a pretty busy

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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