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  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  took the class twice and dropped it twice. It wasn't just because it had difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being ... , even with so much time, money, and energy invested in that outcome. Yet

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn ... , as a science major, I felt overshadowed by MIT's engineers. And I ... either and are primarily interested in business, or architecture, or

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  laptops that MIT recommends: Macs, Dells, and Thinkpads. I’ve seen MIT students with all variety of these and more. I've had all three. My first computer was an IBM Thinkpad T27 and my second computer was an IBM ThinkPad R

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  ... and everything nice! My favorite dish in the whole wide world is ... smoke fills the room and the cook always ends up coughing and crying ... have never done one and have only heard of them)"]ayahuasca ceremony

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall spouting some bits of wisdom and occasional pi facts. I put together this video, made with love (though with poor video editing skills) and I hope

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

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  , celebrations, and sometimes songs. They are also a natural point to look back and ... senior year of high school, and everything that came with it - classes, activities, tests, applications, decisions... If I look back and remember

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and ... boon to those of us who are data-curious and kind of creepy. All MIT ... and departments, flame wars, and occasionally lost items. In contrast

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  Science and Engineering, assigned it as one our journal club readings.) an

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before ... wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the smell and sizzling of hot breakfast, and coffee made for me as consolation

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  I'm chugging into my 3rd year here at MIT blogging, studying, and being smashed. And everytime I cross the threshold of a jet, settle into my seat and begrudgingly turn off wifi on all my TSA

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  'll start work at mit lincoln laboratory next may, and then i'll do the whole cap-and-gown thing with the 2018s in june. as far as endings go, the ... and finals week started and i scheduled dinners and lunches and walks

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  and re-read it so many times, and it rings true to me every single time ... eloquent as Ben's, but is certainly in the same vein - and is every bit as ... , and even more at MIT as an undergrad (many for studying/academic reasons

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  your application goes spiraling into a dark, anonymous vortex, and after ... sometimes ask students to imagine who reads their applications and to tell me ... . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  that our lab does is really related to anything the Echo can do, and they ... , so I asked [our group director] to get a couple.” And thus I learned ... . He flew the drone up. And up. And over the water. And a little more

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  few days ago a fuse broke and all the outlets in our kitchen stopped ... ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... stove is on a different fuse, and for that we are very lucky. Here’s how

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  Oh man, it has been a while and a half since I’ve blogged. However, this is not important, and you guys can probably stand to wait another ... left before your early applications are due, and if you are anything like

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  in the Chinese-language post, and additionally, some things in the ... China, I was four years old. We arrived in Shanghai and went straight to ... speaking Shanghainese, and now I remember that moment in English, which is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  time I went home. Put the quality on 1080 and see the color green unlike ... evenly between my childhood companions and my closest friends at MIT. The ... and violently ill upon ingestion. I use the account to share things that

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the ... Ethiopian-Eritrean Students Association, and a founding member of my sorority ... founding members of the MIT chapter and were technically all the same class

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  (maybe)barely totaled 56/120. This is 6.046, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, whose prereqs are 6.042 and 6.006, both classes I have pretty ... , Computer Science, Economics, and Data Science, along with all three of my

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018