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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  conductivity of the plasma column in the tube. So a higher voltage is needed to ... , increases the conductivity of the plasma. A lower voltage is required in this ... , observing in a local high school classroom, interviewing for cool jobs

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi ... composed the draft right away in a stroke of inspiration—an occurrence so ... turns out publishing a series of consecutive posts is not easy, even with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  almost all of us, is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. it's not often that ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHg50mdODFM of course, steven universe is a cartoon show and the lyrics ... take a moment and ask yourself if this is how we fall apart? but it

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  . One of those countries is China, and there have been a lot of ... one more all-nighter. The problem is, being a recent graduate myself, I ... realistic that situation is and chances are you’ll be greeted with a mixture

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach’s ability to thrive in all its squirming, leg-wiggling glory is terrifying ... ! This is an American Cockroach (Periplaneta americana), a species of roach

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  ’s your orientation, in the literal sense. This is what the campus looks ... . There’s main campus, which is the pentagon in the center; most activities ... campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  Text transcript: Many times this semester, I felt disappointed in myself. It's not a new sensation. But after all these years, I still don't have any advice, just a feeling. A long, cold plummet into guilt and

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  or two—this is always better than being a burrito in your bed, although being a burrito in your bed is not a bad choice as well. 4) believe that ... ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  loft with my Legos and my books. Having a boyfriend who likes Legos and ... black-and-white figure in a paper, and comprehensive scientific controls. Getting an email and it’s a comment on a blog post. Writing alone in a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  effort, just in case I end up being a borderline case of C-. But I also ... for that and also a persuasive presentation for 15.276 on voting in 2018 ... (maybe)barely totaled 56/120. This is 6.046, Design and Analysis of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  International Honors Program: Cities in the 21st Century. It is a comparative ... feel, and debriefing and debating academic concepts is quite a change. My ... incredible amount that never would have been possible in a traditional academic

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ) software is ubiquitous these days in mechanical engineering courses, a huge ... PST   The actual prototype, on the other hand, is in a minor ... ;The quick hack is to add a complete Arduino, which has a power regulator, in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  , no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general, not just for MIT. College is a weird place, so I hope you can gain some ... you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... to cut them. Place the potato (or equivalent) and garlic cloves in a ... Cook barley in a pot on the stove. Make according to store directions. As

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  New York Times, New York Times

  

  not use the scores in admissions decisions until it is satisfied with ... admissions at M.I.T., adding that she thought it was unfair to base decisions on a test that had not yet been shown to be a good indicator of a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  class participant is placed with a master teacher in a middle or high ... placement is in a charter school freshman Physics class. Every week, I don my ... stops and worlds apart. The most often cited difference is in the color

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make ... timelapse video of the sunset, thoughts on being in a creative slump, an ... ," awkward faces Things you won't see in this video: a cohesive narrative of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  are sad In its place is CP✱, a sort of CPW-turned-virtual, that ... the haiku log combinatorics the haikubot is a workaround to post in the ... that the gay heart is now active in my chest the gay heart is a tool to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  because I liked to read the blogs. A few years later, I spent a summer in ... writing well and consistently - so I started a blog sometime in June. In other words: you do not need to have had a blog for a zillion years in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  confusion as a feeling that comes in many different flavors. Some are sweet ... -sarcastic friend – made me think differently. Being lost in confusion was a good thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018