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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  -looking appearance, and there's generally not as much freedom to make modifications to ... stereotypical MIT student may or may not be true, depending on whose version of ... , a profile which does not remotely resemble the typical East Campus

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  'm good at. "Cami, that's not how things work." For the past few hours, I ... I've been watching a lot of chess. Watching, not playing. My eyes ... music. Strange rhythms and patterns, hard to predict. Not as easy to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  watched, clutching a clipboard to my chest. Exam Room 1 is not a normal ... -threatening problems. Two doctors strode into the room, not wasting a second. As he ... like all of them. Not yet. Even now, I can’t really explain why I came to

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  president of the entire Dormitory Council, which are certainly not small ... ,[/annotation]and, in the years immediately post-COVID, there simply was not a lot of ... everybody on a team is happy and healthy and working together, and who has the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  have to work for it. Despite that, I didn't expect to struggle this much ... , there were peers who were spending more time on the psets and not finding ... .01 utilizes TEAL -- technology-enabled active learning. Essentially, we work in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  want to work in International Development, everything comes full circle ... does an awesome job of that (yes, some, not all)...so being intimidated ... those 3, so it'll all work out okay. HA! Ahahahaha. This is priceless

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  like overkill, but it’s not. One of the most annoying things about working with quantum optics is that experiments are unbelievably sensitive ... components snap into place like LEGO bricks[/annotation]. It’s not perfect and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  out what to work on, feeling like nothing i was working on was ... part of my research giving them more math materials. i've worked with ... about and share the joys of work, the old undergrad friends who get

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  wait, it’s about digital musical instrument design, not like ... signals are by drawing an ellipse on the screen. Not terribly exciting ... idea of using an oscilloscope to render a video game is not new. Many

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  attention. The other day I tried to work on my resume and could not find the ... ?", or "do I have enough energy to work on my resume today?", or "do I have ... , worship, prayer. I'm not religious myself, but I wouldn't dismiss the value

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  person you see at the office—if you feel like your Dean is not advocating ... you. Your SDS Dean will work with you to determine what accommodations ... ). You will then work with your professors to figure out if those are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  ... And then the committee does its work, however brutal. It's not pretty ... day. Working things out between friends is best done in person, not ... name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions office. My job, among

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  out with friends. Breakfast was not a concern. Our hall has a free food ... for lunch with some Nutella. I also eat two bananas. I do some work ... . Monday I again wake up late enough that breakfast was not a concern. I eat

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The ... . Though I did not see college as an end-all-be-all, it was still sort of a ... completely changed in one short year. Right now, I’m not confronting such a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  . This is probably due to the fact that I'm not on campus and, while I'd like to blog about things I've been doing around my house, it's not going ... glad I'm not at home, and many other typical college experiences. Today

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  blog posts. On Friday nights, while the rest of MIT is hard at work ... . Dim Sum, like problem sets and arguably Communism, works best when done ... you.) Last Saturday, I woke up in a not-very-exciting fashion, so I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  introduction to the blog to those of you just joining us. (I am NOT putting my ... drive. (First authorship as an undergrad = very big deal.) I work in the ... when I could run around and joke and not think about signaling pathways

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  list AP courses where I'm not actually taking an AP course (since my high ... you do? Well, here's what I can tell you. We're not going to reject you because of the length of your essay. We do not have an auto-word-counter for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  feel two opposite feelings? how can we both want and not want something ... with some more contradictions. for one, i (don't) want to do work. i ... , like working on firehose, or making more write-ups about math, or writing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  . The weather machine was working great, almost unbelievably so. After ... . So the “going incognito” plan didn’t work out great, but I enjoyed it ... was loving it. Back on hall, my friends and I worked and talked in the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018