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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  humanities major, won't it be easier for me to get in? A. Nope. Wouldn't that ... Recently, in my wanderings around the internet (that is to say, the ... . If we spent all our time studying, how would we have time to be in all

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  absolutely drowning in work and had to distance myself from my friends to get ... my life before coming to college and pursuing my interests in a ... Tunes, although it was nice to have premade playlists in genres that I liked. This

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who you gonna call? The Mythbusters @ MIT!

  

  : Last night, LSC hosted the Mythbusters, Adam and Jamie, who came to MIT to describe some of their work and how they get inspiration for what ... Mythbusters are not foreign to MIT. (Hops into Time Machine) The year was 2005

  • by Bryan
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  send it to you?" Absolutely! "Are admission interviews available in my ... interviewer in your area. You can always write to [email protected] to ask ... attend the same from India. Will it be wise to include the SSP thing in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  .112, the next level of chemistry, which meant in order to keep the 18 ... 've been trying to decide whether or not to switch into 5.112. I'm in it for ... suggest getting another book to help you out, especially The Official SAT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  biology class that they need to pass in order to graduate. What could this ... an incredibly nerdy thing to go to an optional lecture in my spare time ... and was inundated with opportunities to hear from celebrities in science

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  've been up till 3 AM in the Hayden Library (an awesome place to study, by ... studying and go to sleep. Getting all your work done is for sure a priority ... written in Python that rarely does what you want it to. For example, when

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  pressure to get A's in high school, although that doesn't mean I actually ... that I always get carded when I buy beer. I went to the Massachusetts RMV to get a driver's permit a few weeks ago, and the lady said, "You have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  . I can't wait to get back up north and start skiing with my family at ... find yourself here next winter, and in need of some ways to stay warm or ... Though born in Massachusetts, I grew up in the wintry hinterlands of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  applicants must be able to demonstrate proficiency in at least one programming ... get him an answer even if they were busy with something else. In ... silicon slides in a round-bottom flask. If we just let them sink to the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  recently, to get a small phone to use while in Nigeria. It always pulses with ... grew so small. I walked in circles and circles, sick to my stomach. Later ... with whom to catch up. But in the face of this blast, I seemed to float

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  considered a gap year in pre-covid times would have been to give myself a break ... myself for another year? So here I was, trying to get ready to learn again ... ’s all just because of P/NR? How will I be in the spring, when I have to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT ... next four years. Now, there’s definitely no way to get the full breadth of what each community has to offer in just three days, but you can

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  can, [annotation note='speaking of buzzing in, RIP to Alex Trebek, who ... time in years to see what I wrote, and wow I still love science bowl just ... competition that middle schools could compete in to qualify for Nationals. I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  has taken on a concentration in writing, which requires her to take ... graduate school. The ability to read has long been linked in society’s mind ... learning disorders in general. We are beginning to find that dyslexia is not

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  taught. In order to get a project off the pipe, you need to make a neckline in the place you would like the glass to break (it becomes the weakest ... extra weakness), and it must be uniform enough to get an even break

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  psychiatrist staring at me in disbelief and telling me to get new priorities as I ... folding.   To get back to the thermodynamics analogy, I’m a little particle ping-ponging inside of a box. I also want to get out of this box

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  now have to rely on catching myself in the right moment to get into the ... invited to go eat at Maseeh dining, I wanted to tap myself in so I could ... grandfather clock is going to keep ticking in non-Newtonian time, and the simple

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  management, once you get over the small hump of activation energy to actually ... other than maybe keeping a list of to-dos in Google Keep, or my ... made a valiant effort to get through my backlog of games. Since freshman

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  startups to make returns. As an entrepreneur, being in their good graces and ... 's from all different industries were going to be gathered in one place less ... could pitch their startups to the venture capitalists and get feedback on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016