Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  Yesterday evening I came back from work to discover my friend Kim, a ... (which was her room when I was a frosh). The room should have not only been ... badly, the more I found excuses not to paint, because I just didn't want

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  Boston today, though I missed the day at work. I can tell you, though, that ... Convocation, President Vest would begin by saying, "You were not admitted by ... who receive a "big envelope" in the mail, it's not because we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  semester grades are very important so keep working hard. We'd like this ... is not required nor is it expected, but if anything exciting happens ... essays to be particularly helpful or insightful. I generally do not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  myself at a local university, working in a neuroscience lab through a high ... . My entire project was done on my laptop. I was working in a subfield ... fields may not actually spur as much success as focusing on the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  work I’m not proud of, over letting go of commitments I cannot fulfill ... celebrate! If not, I hope this blog, the same virtual mug of tea, and a ... . Not to mention having to keep up with school and other responsibilities

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  definitely not involved in that sort of stuff -- if you work with one prof that ... crowds knew I existed or not. (When I was in elementary school, one of the ... other people think. I chose not to care about the opinions of people who

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  it. For this past week, I wrote this poem. It's not my best work, and I ... [/annotation]or working on the side-projects I need to work on, I've been going out into the ... had ascended to some[annotation note="which is definitely not a real

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  actually follow it or not, at least allows me to calm down and start doing ... standardized test on your own--this worked well for many people. If you want to ... you have. If not, you could try Barron’s, but I really think it’s best

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  libraries. Personally, I work much better in my own room, but not everybody ... that I didn't get to see during term. (It's not that I have no time to ... time I reorganized my closet (I'm not even kidding -- I used to have an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  obviously not true, i still have two more semesters left. but it was a goodbye ... for 3 semesters (i guess, this does not necessarily imply an ending, but ... say goodbye to my graduating friends, some of whom i know will not be

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  's exactly what it sounds like. Undergrads get to work with professors, Ph ... that will hopefully make it seem less challenging. Note: I’m not going ... you're interested in anyway, even if you're worried that you're not

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  this instead. There's frankly not too much to say because I've been struggling with bouts of illness for the past month or so. I'm not sure what ... -school girls who compete in math (and their peers); if you fit that bill (or not

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  entirely by chance. I’m certainly not a Philosophy (Course 24) major, but so ... -proof neurons. I had not previously encountered texts that I could not decipher. Now I may not fully comprehend a large portion of an assignment

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  school), the Frosh can say, “I’m not going to finish this homework,” and not feel bad about it. Success for her is temporarily measured on a Pass ... after painful September experiences. The Frosh can’t imagine not spending

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  time around, summer is over and school is starting (although not for a little while longer), but it's not depressing, because I'm taking classes ... means to me right now, and it's kind of weird, because I'm not used to

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  'd worked very hard like many of you, and wanted to continue my education at a ... serious do students take their work? 2. Location I'm a coast kind of guy. I lived in the Midwest, but I was definitely not applying to any

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  spoilage makes them more engaging, not less there are no oracles in real ... the control group, at which point they did not attempt to jump over the ... our friends resolve their issues so we choose not to help them and in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  I went back to downtown Denver after work today, back to the center ... 'm not stupid either. After exchanging my tickets I decide to hang out ... ?” I hesitate for milliseconds, and say “yes” although I am not. He

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  class together! Not all twins are like this, but we just happened to ... courses were always the same). Having similar academic interests is not ... coding assignments had to be done individually. No one could really work

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  , tauntingly, did not reflect that. I worked twice as hard this semester and did ... midterms was not much better and I began to get really concerned. My fiery ... her. Then she said, “Oh you’re doing fine! I would not recommend

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015