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• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  immersed in the MIT culture. I am certainly a full-blooded MIT student, and ... student would answer the way I did just the other day to the question, “Do ... else that I know of. They’re the kind of thing that serve as a dead

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  considered "sleeping in." I got to sleep in yesterday. :-) Woke up around 8AM ... hour traffic), I picked a direction randomly and ended up in Scarsdale ... 're ever in Scarsdale, Seven Woks makes some great Moo Shu. I'll pause here

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products. From the website: In 2.009, Product Engineering Processes, [150] students work in large ... Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  . From the website:  In 2.009, Product Engineering Processes, [150] students work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and ... 2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  lived in EC, and my experience likely would have been different had I been ... —these are just my opinions, and even though I'm a senior, I've lived in East ... mates whenever I enter and exit. In the renovation, the Burton and Conner

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  been sitting in my drafts box since. However, I still believe, fervently ... us a happy pi day, and I realized that today was the day, and in t ... glorious day, and it is cold in Boston, but I still find it beautiful outside

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  candidates. Would this produce a lesser class? The link in mihcal1's post ... foundation for much of the social science research I love best. In his article ... were right in our decisions? What made us think our decisions would be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  .youtube.com/watch?v=ObQfChNMUvM I was bored and the weather outside was nice, so I thought I would go ... haven’t actually given an admissions tour in a long time. I ended up ... minutes long, and I won’t take offense if you skip around or watch it in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 23, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  by vibes. I avoid listings IN ALL CAPS because they seem [annotation ... 't get that in California. I should talk to my manager about the things ... support systems[/annotation] in my life, I tell HR the next day that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  reaction times so i assumed ddr would be a struggle [caption id ... found a level i wanted to beat in my remaining week at mit. it was grand ... jump every ten or twenty beats, the climax had 27 jumps in a row. i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  ! Nice to meet you! I'm Keri Garel, class of 2010, and in the blogger world ... post on dyslexia!). As a student, I lived in Senior Haus. Matt once said that I was Senior Haus; I was president in 2008, ran Steer Roast in 2009

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  apparently caused my neck to stop working in a neck-like way (I would post ... derivatives involved. (I feel like noting in here somewhere that, thanks to most ... my satisfaction, I headed by the Chemistry Education Office to hand in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  college counseling position in Providence, RI.  While I am no longer an ... he was saying, and I certainly didn't think about the ways that I would ... probably continue to check in periodically (as long as I am permitted to do

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  out." He turned to the other proctors. I took ten steps in the ... in the next couple of weeks :) A final note: the house I’m staying in has this sign by the front door, which I thought I would share… "She

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  Wesomeness that is MIT...As I would do right now if I had the chance to - high ... ?!??!!?" and "wow, just wow..." I guess I was more focused on being there "in ... balls wasn't an accurate representation of my CPW (I only went in there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions office. My job, among ... Sentimental Post: December 16, 2004 In what would become his trademark, this is ... , and EC" The Beard. As you've probably noticed in the picture above, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Forget that Or, "Why I won't be posting next week"

  

  another test, which was just in major scales but still hard because I suck ... page has your MIT username in the top corner, so you can quickly and easily find your printouts in the massive pile of stuff that has been

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  work on my stuff. I thought this would be helpful in both showing you a ... stand working in my room. I feel cramped and not as productive as there ... courtyard that is now occupied by the huge Christmas tree in the picture! I do

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  spare time, but enough time that I should, in principle, be able to post ... first time I've felt burned out in a (metaphorically) clinical way, so it ... to stop doing, which I'll get to in a bit). One thing I've learned

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  hours a week. Every weekend, I would walk 35 minutes or so past Fenway, a ... , as I sat on the T, I would note down everything I had worked on that ... : I didn’t go in completely new–I’d attended a wheelthrowing workshop

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025