Search

Search Results

• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  , but where I come from, the closest you get to snow is shredded ice in ... exactly what you want. October? I have no idea what happened in October ... niche and was growing more comfortable in it daily. I wasn’t just barely

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  grouped with seniors in the MIT people directory. Similarly, I can’t know ... the probability of wearing purple underwear in each dorm where people ... , So try me on and I will tell you Where they ought to be. My

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  around in an oversized fish tank: ‘I can’t wait to get out here.’ When the ... ? where will I live? That first question, the one my friends in Senior House ... two years, I faced a number of questions. This was due in part to my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  sphere. I think it can be easy to continue in college mode, when your ... . I had been given permission to call in from my office on campus. Two ... :45am my advisor texted me saying I should come back in. The chair tried

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  where I UROP in real life and Chris was once a research assistant. I had ... motto in the Avengers: Civil War movie :P) Chris and I had a couple more ... used in the video, photographed by fellow student Chheangkea I. '17 Now

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  ! --------------------------------------------------------------- It's not just the MIT node... I'm in Ohio and I'm getting the same ... .238.1.200 [21/Oct/2008:20:47:04 "POST *scratches head* Gee.. I wonder where all ... scripts] Now. . . here's the amazing part. I can't access VSPink

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  Laboratory Fundamentals in Biological Engineering, this semester, and you can ... should probably do all your figures in Microsoft paint. Sure you can plan ... each pixel? There is such a joy in eyeballing where things should be

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  Union College, where I also engaged actively in sports. My athletic ... semesters. My previous semester involved engaging in a UROP, where I honed my ... . This shift occurred after an internship at Boeing, where I engaged in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural world, I believe in the scientific method, which is to say I believe in ... analytical theory for a moment and ground what I'm saying in some concrete

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  really homesick), I made pakaprow. No matter where I was in the world, I ... as well relish in it.  To quote the above almond can that I snacked ... , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  point where I wasn’t fully engaged in my other classes. One particular ... semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for ... forward a few days, I dropped the class in question, thinking it would make

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  of pretty paper art. In fact, I did a UROP on designing this stuff over ... :)   Rose R. ‘17 Mural-ish thing :) In order to brighten up my room a bit, I ... Hall but I’m typing it from a fancy but empty apartment in East Cambridge

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  even in all the dorms at MIT. Yeah, I said it. BURTON 1 FREAKIN' ROCKS ... that I've established that, we can all go home. I say this lightly, of ... rush, in which freshmen traverse the floors to see where they'd like to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  realized that learning where one's limits are can be a very good thing. I ... thin that you can no longer contribute in a significant way to any group ... unsuccessful one: "It was great!"), I finally converged on this: I laugh, then

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving ... Class In January, I made the last minute decision to sign up for 6 ... with the justification of "Fuck it, why not? I can just drop it if I don

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  admissions. Why I Chose MIT  In all honesty, there are times (*cough* hell ... site because it's hilarious - and it's also where I got the above two gifs) I visited MIT for the first time during CPW, and I came in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that ... , less frustrating, and more fun. But I don't know that many people in the ... in the dorms. I think that's probably something that varies dorm

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  again, in wide-eyed wonder that I get to choose which classes I can take ... , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of ... grief. I remember that in my first year my whole life revolved around this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  me and said I had a package awaiting me in the secretary’s office. I ... it to Penn within days of their mail. I also sent in my SAT scores and ... find out the status of my application. In that time, I joined College

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  obvious mountains to climb. I can walk in any direction, or switch directions, for any amount of time, toward horizons whose features I can’t see ... in the world can have breakfast or building cities or improving

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016