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  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  overworking for the sake of overworking now. The reality of working on a ... are still there for one another. And that gives me a lot of hope for the ... be a special moment. I want this to be a moment that I remember for

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  aware of the world. Ancient Greece is the fodder for many a modern ... turned in on Monday, a final project for advisory on Tuesday, short story ... was just having a good time -- Greek history is excellent fodder for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  games for fun - and now there's a non-trivial chance that I might make video games for a living. Direct correlation! Teach us something you ... early and took a gap semester in Japan my senior year. I also studied for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Mnemonic Contest Winner Congratulations, Shawn!

  

  bryanblogs [at] mit dot edu. Tomorrow: How I work for a genius. ... Start spreading the news! The new mnemonic for the planets is: My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nothing. Congrats to Shawn for

  • by Bryan
  • September 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  ’d already made a Courseroad for 6-9.) I became a stereotypical CS student. I ... brought several hands-on demos for the audience (including a sheep’s brain ... -immigrant visa for a temporary stay. Per federal regulations, if I want to work off

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• FAQ / Transfer

  What college should I attend to improve my chances for transfer admission?

  MIT welcomes a small group of exceptional transfer students each year ... interest. In other words, you should choose a college that will be a good fit for you.
• Blog / Events

  [liveblog] gingerbread stata we are building stata out of gingerbread

  

  are cleaning up--gingorbread stata however will be out for a whole week ... 're doing this)[/caption]   [11:40am] The event technically starts at ... putting down paper etc.). Also here's a cute little sign! Kind of reads as

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 23, 2026
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  is a masterpiece. If you have the Internet for it, I strongly encourage ... mathematical surfaces. A cabled LOTR sweater my mom knit for me, as evidence of ... displayed in the Student Center for a whole month. Here are some student

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  excellence and, more importantly, sustainability (a subtle nod to the subtitle ... simulations on an MIT-inspired neural network (i.e. after thinking about it for a few seconds in my brain), I deduced the entire plot of the film

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  a long while, for dinner. We live farther away from each other this ... -ing for a class or two, and applying to grad school a year early (because he ... Italy for IAP. We’re all busy.” There’s a moment of quiet, after all the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  in Brighton for $25 a person Scoring guest meal passes and eating ... If you know anything about MIT, you know that there's a lot of ... and 24 (but not 13, 19, or 23) n 1 and 24 (but not 13), that important

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  right now, I'd like to discuss something that's been on my mind for a few ... bothers me. In the beginning, Facebook essentially served as a platform for ... respect, understand, and integrate the importance of social production and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  electricity for my new apartment, getting my skates sharpened, getting a haircut ... [annotation note='The past two years I had been a counselor for the Course 6 ... roaming around from 11a to 4p when it ended, with a 30-minute lunch break in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: the creative process for Pi day videos

  

  behind the scenes for the drone delivery video, but this interview delves a ... officers are preparing for the admissions cycle (sort of like preparing for hibernation, but for being buried in applications instead of snow). So here is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  always have a dash when handwritten 11. Matrices are brackets not ... defend. 1. Proofs are boring Don't you dare show me a mathematical proof ... "let's show this to other people--it makes a lot of sense"? I'm not

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  time to watch them, you can read a PDF "pitch deck" for each product here ... 2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to ... undergraduate and graduate classes, fundraise and manage a budget for a research ... before my move, I was told that “nobody [is ever ready for a faculty

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanks What is your fantasy class? Vote yet again.

  

  Thanks for all of the advice on my previous entry. I have decided to take 11.025J D-Lab: Development, since I have studied "issues of ... visual and auditory processing for perception and sensorimotor control

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  phone for half hours at a time, explaining how I just felt incompetent and ... dining hall for a couple days becasue I kept taking food out since I was ... My lack of blogging this semester is largely a reflection of how this

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  week). Papers consistently due every month for my HASS. A million ... Hello (again) World! My goal to blog once a week has sadly failed... but I've been really hosed these past 2 weeks. -Freeze- For those of you

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011