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  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  rough patches Chris on time management Sam on how MIT's difficulty is a ... for Concourse, ESG is a really great program. You can also sign up for ... sure the class is actually interesting in practice. Seriously. Do

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Featured 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 ... : although my "day in the life" was in fact a typical Tuesday or Thursday this semester (as in, every Tuesday/Thursday is like that), my Mondays, Wednesdays

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate ... direction is important. you'll need to develop a sense for it." "isn't there ... . "you have to adjust based on how the wind is blowing," said john. "and so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple ... person is left. This creates all sorts of interesting mind games in which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  , like it has of mine. And it is wonderful to have a nutritional oasis in ... I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in Central Square, since 2013. I love living here in a way that I never thought

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  chocolate mousse is covered in a chocolate glaze, topped with a vanilla tuile ... not who he is. His pivot and return to Fire Nation launches him on a ... roll is covered in a mirror glaze and topped with a cherry and some

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the You ... videos in a playlist below. Here's a masterlist of all the vlogs, with ... at night This is Not a Picture || VEDA #2 – #askMIT, career fairs, Big

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  told them about how media has played such a huge role in shaping who I am ... of a sudden you imagine competing with these people for a spot in a university. There is a ridiculous amount of pressure from both adults and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  crew and is a job title used in filmmaking and television for a person ... better video content being produced – and created a final video project in ... in front of a camera and talk about science!" – so it was really great

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  it this far if you didn't have someone in your corner. For some it is a ... few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just as true in college admission circles as it is anywhere else that it

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... heard myself pull in air. It was Jane Lynch, the actress who plays Sue ... , wondering if this or that even makes sense, and who in their right minds would

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  power. In Nigeria, electricity is a matter of arbitrariness: at any point ... , although this is now a dated abbreviation). In the consistent absence of ... close. I graduate in June, if all goes well. A short while afterward, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 ... -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send ... two of you set up a time to Skype. Mushiness also comes in cake form

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  people who read them. That's where this post differs. It is probably not ... it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and ... how fucking cool that is. Standing in the middle of the Killian Court

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  weekend in Vermont is the culmination of that—a chance to hang out with my ... audiences of all ages for so many years, which is perfect for someone who is a ... people what they like to do for fun is a fantastic window into their world

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  recommends a math course for you. Your advisor is also informed of this suggestion. It's through a system called MITx, which is like a big interactive textbook a lot of Psets are done through. I did well in Calc BC in high

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  extremely clear, '28th best high school violinist in South Dakota' is not a ... /them pronouns." Why is this important? Why say all this? In a pre ... usually the only Asian student in the classroom, and that was just one in a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  9:30AM-5:30PM: [redacted] 5:30PM: walk home in a daze of decisions ... 'd give you a window into a day in the life of reading applications. We ... , embodied, manifest in some material form) I think is just as interesting, at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  .org (although that is highly recommended!) here’s a quick recap: I studied Course ... that I didn't belong here.  In my second semester, I struggled a lot with ... already learned multivariable calc (even if they won't use it) is a little

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Events

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  ever a Bad Idea. Bad Ideas is a weekend festival thrown by East Campus ... like wings, I do not like spicy. A one-pound plate of wings was placed in ... *-foot-tall sledding hill in the EC courtyard! Who needs roller coasters when we have

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011