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• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  crashed about two minutes in. I didn't get back to my dorm till 7:55pm ... forth between lab, eating lunch in 5 mins, barely making it to the dining ... . We had a microquiz in 6.0001 (Introduction to Python) that I didn

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  months now. One thing I've noticed about this site in the past year is that ... features of the Admissions website as a whole, because it shows how the blogs ... Match - you don't just get the Admissions Office's view of things

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  universe in a vending machine to get a cup of coffee. After recovering the ... the website to put their phone number in the queue, and then HQ would ... , typically a Google Doc, to a webpage that gets served on the hunt website

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  to have attended Disrupt and to have made new friendships in the startup community from cities all over the US. Getting to Disrupt was quite ... placed in the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon the weekend before. Tickets to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  stay in a hotel with them so that they aren't alone? Or do we need to ... schedule, going to the events they're interested in, doing a little exploring ... , what should I do in order to know MIT better?" You do need to tell us if

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  , and so I randomly rank classes that happen to fit in with the rest of my ... first day of class, ready to get some tips on how to improve my strokes ... ’t consider myself to be a terrible ice skater, but I was pretty bad in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  Photo Contest, in which I objectively judged photos sent to me by CPW ... 've decided to abandon my usual rhetorical grace in favor of simply insulting ... parse it in the imperative mood. As in, “Welcome MIT families to our

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  'm slowly getting used to the fact that, when I speak in Celsius, people ... MOLECULES IN SPACE (presumably because he realized that adding "in space" to ... last year, but didn't get in - which makes being here now even more

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  , and he was able to get a really great vantage point to take photos the ... she wasn't entirely in favor of heading down to the Hatch Shell this ... best measure would be to get some sleep and just watch the fireworks from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  . Unless you consider all of those 500 forms I needed to fill out and send in ... is the most fun topic. I was so, so excited to get the i3 video. i3 ... who aren't slackers, you can visit this page to get a good idea of what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  weren't on Facebook. In retrospect, it was a primitive and dim space to ... across otherwise. You get to be the dude or dudette who provides the hook-up. And we get to spread our message to people who might otherwise never

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  's more convenient to just stick to the norm. I've tried to get into ... task you need to complete gets time scheduled on your calendar, so you ... like I was in a snippet of Groundhog's Day. By journaling, I was able to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  . Everybody gets to publish, everybody gets to read, and everybody gets to ... doorstep and as you flip through them, page by page, you get to see aspects ... website. Another reason was this magical thing called "Web 2.0." Web 2

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  to be part shameless plug for my website CourseRoad, and part ... ? Whenever you get a chance, try to read as many of those as possible. You ... of software to help MIT life in some way. Without much else to do, I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  surgeon. In his senior year of college, he decided to take the MD-PhD route ... Brass Rat.” In addition to pushing its students to, he notes that ... (competitive tennis and soccer) in addition to the classic science and math clubs

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  needs to get into Burton-Conner. 3. Restock paper in the dorm printer ... -motivational posters online at this website. I was walking to the down Amherst Street ... , thanks anyway!" Sam's Mom had taught me well not to get into bicycle taxis

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  the two? Would you ever toss a coin to decide, in this case?" I get ... because of your scientific passion and not just to get into college. Nick ... really need them and don't have them, your counselor can expect to get a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  that classes are no longer allowed to serve food. you feel the strain in ... and care involved in delivering every bite of food to your doorstep ... you were a student in web.lab 2020, but you never had to use this stuff

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  an orange tour 🍊🍊🍊

  

  me. Isolated color is a fun lens in which to view the world. I hope you ... through a website on the Google Chrome app on my iPhone so pls forgive the ... compelling. I went down the list, and orange felt just right: rare enough to be

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • April 29, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  graduate school. In case that didn’t work out, I also applied to what I thought to be two safe backup options: unpaid laborer on an organic farm in ... Factory but accepted to MIT in my junior year of high school (after which I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025