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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  , study for the exam, and/or go to Career Fair. "Is it worth?" I ask ... 't bring a suit or dress shoes from home.   D-2: 8.01 exam tomorrow ... anything and everything relevant." OK. Well I don't have any business or

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  modulus and argument of e1+(π/3)i," or "Write down the constant ... , neither of which are actually related to math itself. Or maybe it was ... , working out how to compute integrals on my own or creating new methods of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT TechTV: Incredible videos from the MIT community YouTube has nothing on us.

  

  … I swear you’ll enjoy them! Grand Prizewinners 1st Place: Godel Escher ... (in Origami) Vol. 1 — (Does Brian look familiar? That’s because I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  November through late February (for this problem we'll say November 1 through ... Janurary. Amy takes 3 days of vacation in November, 1 in December, 2 in January, and 1 in February. All else being equal - for applications for

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  , sure,” I promised, “And will you wake me up if I don’t wake you up ... will call this film conjecture, but for me it filled in a lot of blanks ... will say in our defense that the hour and a half of outright mistruths

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  ’m currently thinking through - when I write (or do any other public work), how ... interactions with other people come either from us being friends or from them ... very little to do with how much you care about or understand the people

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  criticism on how cringy freshman year Nisha [annotation note="or still am idk ... directly to experiences that I've had at MIT, or people that I've met here ... - I’m talking wild eyed, [annotation note="i will say, i do like people

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  allusions to. We got the essay prompt before Thanksgiving: who, or what ... ain't the case. The man got sick after or before drinking with his buddy ... 's zoom, or seminar classes, or non-STEM classes at MIT, but it feels like I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  work on research for our project or plan and design a couple of things we ... employees in the lab, or just simply observe as they played fun games like Dungeons and Dragons or Codenames. It was absolutely surreal to me that I was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  , because it is okay, and things will be okay, but it's hard to know things will be okay when I'm not...in the okay. But then I think back to where ... anticipated any of this -- any of the things I've accomplished or seen or done

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  University. I am currently working on a number of blog posts that will be ... international dorm with very few other people coming from the U.S, etc. These will ... . However, over the last, say two years or so, I have seen a dramatic decrease

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  angry or sad. A bunch of the parents were very skeptical that you don ... 4.0 scale or whatever is utterly irrelevant. I'm opposed to class rank ... , demonstrated that I was willing to take risks. I see posts on CC and comments on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  parents will NEVER know!" I get the feeling that a lot of people were under ... -qualified enough to get into a top university, chances are he or she worked pretty darn hard for it. And I'm willing to bet that more than a few students

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  't have hazardous conditions or oppressive heat. The "high pay" "good ... second job in the Lewis Music Library. This is my desk: [] People will ... Michigan. But without Moria, we will carry on and see Hamlet in the Common

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  because every now and then our conversation made him smile or frown, and ... annotated Gorgias will travel with me to Marburg, Germany, for an intensive ... will live in my new apartment for a year while I commute to and from the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  willing to share their inner life probably shouldn't be in this class ... all is that nobody is actually an NPC. When I was three or four years ... dull, who doesn't aspire to do anything particularly ambitious or

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  the 3 technicals, a HASS or two, UROP, extra-curriculars, etc. circuit ... death. We each keep, more or less hidden within us, a nostalgia for ... long day or the easiest to get through because I am asleep, which may or

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  Hrm, ok. Let's pretend everything is seven or eight days ago so that ... 't line up properly; your workload is far more than you're used to or should ... young folk and eager applicants may not want to do, but probably will want

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  comforting that time would not slow down for either my last-minute studying or ... phone, I could have painted a mural, or done things I actually wanted to ... with a friend, or choosing to subject myself to more Fourier transforms

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  costume. Most frequently used line of the evening: "If you or anybody you ... students still hanging out in Building 68 at 1 AM needed some entertainment ... . And, I mean, when you're causing a noise disturbance at 1 AM and the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005