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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  , you can see the article here. Basically, what I gathered from the ... in lab watching the hours go by until I get an interesting data point ... paper-hungry but not with regards to money, but to how many journals I can

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever ... again, I would spend hours locked away in a corner of the library staring ... 've been blessed. Can't remember the reagents for the reaction you have in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  is like an older brother to me! he did something that i can't tell is ... surprisingly well. If you’ve never used it I can’t promise it’ll make you fluent ... sponsor me). I’d used the app in the past to learn Italian and to refresh my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  headquarters in building 12. I left after 5 minutes and returned with a can of ... simpler. I was in China visiting relatives all IAP. That would be my last ... talking about Mystery Hunt, I'll talk about that.   If I can help

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  standard upon myself. I can no longer rely on 'your mom' jokes to distract ... doomed by a lack of substance. I can't be boring. It's started to carry ... optimization in C memory allocation works any more. I just want to go to sleep

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  time, I can't even stress that enough), you can develop interests in ... 8-B. I can't believe you do all of this?!?! How do sleep? Do you ... )? But keep in mind those classes I listed weren't like taken all during

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  I can enroll in IAP classes and participate in research, I cannot ... Hi everybody, I play ice hockey in the winter and lacrosse in the ... competing in my sports. I want to share my perspective on the pros and cons of

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  weeks—that is to say, I’ve been floating around in the bubble built around ... know I haven’t blogged in a while (yes, yes, I feel the mass of your judgmental stares poking my back) but I’ve actually been writing a lot. In fact

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  , I realized that it would probably be in my best interest to take the ... -challenged person (read: I can still get lost with Google Maps), I wouldn't trust ... importantly, in one piece. I immediately crashed when I got back. Snow is

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations designing kindness during a time of covid

  

  to 'attend,' alas, but I can't wait to watch the archived footage later! ... is tonight! Every year we blog about 2.009, a capstone course in ... annual event at MIT, outstripping event Commencement. You can watch the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  these classes is that, while I gain the engineering skills in my Chemical ... As we’ve already seen, tests can really throw a curveball into one’s schedule. Luckily for me, my classes are unique enough that I don’t spend

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  warm day in Boston today, I still had applications to read. However, I ... 'll go bed after I put in just one more piece, I promise." It's not a ... take breaks from reading so I used one of them to take a quick walk

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Videos Over the Years The 90s were, uh, different

  

  before, and you can see a more complete history here, but I thought it'd be ... I was going through some of the Admissions archives last week and ... , have some things not changed...) Our first video that I know of was a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One More Look At Our Snow Globe Life with moving parts

  

  then the Institute-wide snowball fight happened. And maybe I can get ... Hi guys, Here's another look at blizzard weekend on campus. Sadly (I ... -less life. :P Nemo just getting started in Boston -- dedicated joggers

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 10, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  As though we weren’t hosed enough…

  

  ...we've been graced with a fire truck on the Great Dome! In case you can't tell, that inscription says "MIT Fire Department". The CPs appreciate good hacks too. I got this far-view shot that includes these two

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Reunion Weekend MIT alumni return to campus.

  

  catch up and celebrate. Reunion Weekend is a very exciting time here! I actually was out of town this weekend, so I can't blog about the Reunions. Instead, take this time to read up on a few MIT alumni that I have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  transform me in ways that I never expected, expose me to people I never would ... On December 17, 2011* at 12:17pm EST**, I was accepted to MIT. After ... generally alarming everyone within a half-mile radius, I promptly posted a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  , after all), which I enjoyed as much as I can enjoy wine (wine is just not ... ever get more interested in wine I’ll try them out. [caption id="attachment_72505" align="aligncenter" width="500"] all i can say is it was rosé

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  you mean?" "Well," he said, "in college, I always thought of hours and ... in six weeks. On Wednesday I had an appointment with my therapist. The ... cram. "Work isn't like that. I don't know when I can take a break, or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  'm modifying... Anyway, I can't really say much more, because where's the fun in ... design I'm going to write up). Or either of the psets in my other two ... since I was interested in learning more about how to administer AFS, I

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008