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• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  breakfast was tasty, so it all works out in the end. Anyway! Enough of that. I think of my "list of potential blog entries" as a stack, not a queue ... work per week, be that in the classroom, in lab, or at home. In practice

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  sonatas sound remarkably like Joplin (Scott, not Janis), which just sounds ... working in their music department. Dr. Cutter also teaches at the Boston ... 30-ish member more exclusive group focusing on smaller-scale works

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  professionals and professors say once you get there :) -and- That will not ... stuff) to more advanced theoretical work for those with the requisite ... undergraduates (which is not the norm for high-quality research institutions

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  terms of what to do and what not to do, what works best for me and for the ... incredibly life-changing. I am most definitely not the same person I was when I ... works best for you, so yes, you'll actually have to study for your

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  (taps mic) is this thing working? hello? okay, great. that's cool. it's been a while since i wrote a sad post here. well, not sad exactly ... less funny, or witty, or whatever. it's not like i haven't been sad. i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  , knowing that I'm not alone, it's simultaneously very raw and scary. I know ... over and over again, slowly filling with more and more rage, not at the ... 're not stupid, you should get this." It feels like somewhere I can reach

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  first time that I ever worked with wood was during [annotation note ... to help build a fort. I didn’t have any experience working with wood. I ... [/caption] The edges of the block are unevenly sanded. They’re not sharp to touch

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  students. Do not let the high tuition or low admission rate discourage you ... getting stuck with a small friend group and not getting to know all the ... MIT — I couldn’t wrap my head around [annotation note="Lucky for me, not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  happened. i missed boston. i missed MIT. i missed next house. maybe, not as ... enough for me to not look too closely most of the times. or feel like the ... comfortable here, i can stay here. this is not a four-year long plane flight

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What happens if I’m not selected as a Match?

  choose to accept the offer, or not accept the offer and apply to other schools through their Regular Action process. You could not be matched ... and did not match, we already have your QuestBridge application and will
• Blog / About Decisions

  Not all heroes wear capes – but some carry tubes. 2021s are happening

  

        MIT Regular Action decisions will be available online next week, on Tuesday, March 14 at 6:28 PM Eastern Time. Next week, when decisions are made available, you…

  • by Riri Williams '20
  • March 7, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  Hey folks, it's been a while. I've been very focused and not in a ... summer has been full of new colors. Last semester was not the best, and I ... side of my family in Turkey. I hadn't been there in 5 years, and I worked

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  either frontload all your work or just not go, especially if it's not early ... , given how much work we have at ALL times. surprisingly, I was able to pull ... who cannot stand it when I'm not prepared for something I easily could

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  take a derivative, and hopefully I will not have to take an integral ... ++. I've worked with it twice in internships before, but maintain that it ... exercises. I'm not good at them. CMS.307 (Critical Worldbuilding): This is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  would have a healthy amount of work. However, something I did not factor ... not being an athlete + a lighter class schedule + spring break + being a ... write, a pset, and a research poster to work on, and my thesis work is

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  favorite people Reading all day instead of doing urgent school work ... dining Cold weather Boys Girls Losing friends :( the work that ... final projects Getting fat Getting sick and not being able to take

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  (including Snively), four freshman bloggers and two seniors (not including ... decisions were not easy. If you applied and didn’t make it this year, I highly ... may or may not have had a dark, traumatizing life experience involving

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  structure elucidation problem… Anyway. The point is I’ve done a lot of work – good work, the kind where I do it and then I’m like, “Whoa! I know stuff ... workspace (although I rarely use it as one – I avoid doing work in my room as

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  1962 but did not receive a prize (interesting enough, none of the partial prize winners' designs worked when commercially developed.) To test his ... to any type of stairs and will not slip because the static reactions

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  House where I live—[/annotation] and I was home. Not everything was the ... Kart tournaments and everything in between, flooded back to me. Home was here, not ... replayed themselves around me. It felt like I was exploring campus again—not

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020