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• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  where he slowly added one type of drink to another (sorry, memory is fuzzy ... sticky. Of course, this left behind all of that gross duct tape residue ... , so I put some on. The first piece went on kind of lopsided, so I pulled

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  found it to be a good review, with the added benefit of formalizing ... could go back and make the decision again? Probably not. It added a lot of ... that I’m already a quarter of the way through my time at MIT, but the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of ... comparator and quickly produce a correctly sorted list 99.9999% of the time. A ... 6.046, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, is one of the most

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  purpose of me writing this blog post is to give you some ideas on how to spend your time instead of freaking out about upcoming admissions decisions. Here is a list of things I came up with. (PS sorry it's all

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  , here is a list of Themed Online Distractors for MIT Decision Day: Pre ... of crash by photographer Ray Collins List crowdsourced at MIT. Add ... 've been following the MIT blogs, recall the number of times we wrote that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  the loss of sleep one single bit. To explain: Milan, MIT's annual ... arrival of more experienced dancers, the energy rapidly picked up, and the next few hours were spent lost in the whirlwind of glorious endorphins

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  . Think up really horrible names for this sequel list. (Return of the Blog ... So I just read Ben's post regarding the official release date of ... finals. And that kinda blows because nobody likes finals. (Thus, in lieu of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  all over the dessicated grids of my post-semester calendar: 1.Baked bread. 2.Read Feynman. 3.Written this list. On second thought, make that ... nary a mine since bidding goodbye to the tender age of microwaved pizza

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  who has done it successfully ten times. The guest list of StartMIT ran ... , because you get to see where all the creative energy of the student body goes when it’s not tied up doing psets. A lot of people participate in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  oscilloscope was a list of x and y coordinates in my code. To generate this list ... -defined list of “shape” coordinates. I’d have ~15 visible sprites on the screen ... single list of coordinates by connecting them with lines: I also wanted

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  note them. Statistically, only a small percentage of student list ... 't major in what they listed on their application. So, in a sense, half of ... provided good answers to a lot of the questions about the process): The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  short bullet point list of stuff I need to do. Some specific projects have ... their own style of taking notes and keeping organized. But if you ... [/caption] Historically, I’ve only ever finished three notebooks out of the dozens I’ve had

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  Competency-Based Learning (CBL). I have a growing list of questions to answer ... in the winter of my freshman year. But life matters were really ... certainty is wildly oscillating. You can not compute the derivative of its

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  guess I’ll come out and say it: I skipped the first week of classes ... Israel was only the last piece of my IAP this year. I spent the first week ... 10 days rowing, eating and sleeping. And video review of course. It’s a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  do! So when Aiden posted his tier list of MIT's dining halls and rated ... "] Map of restaurants I visited over the week.[/caption] Day 1 (Saturday ... custard" (from the drinks menu, which turned out to be just a bowl of corn

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  already be familiar with my experience of choosing a major. In summary, I ... economics (Course 14), realized over the course of the following year that ... undergraduates in terms of the number of people who do it. As of some time in the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  If you are reading this, it means I am successfully on my way out of ... would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to ... without the risk of failure Above all us, every upperclassman has one piece

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  content warning: multiple mentions of suicide.     the friday before the last one, i received some bad news. one of my close ... ever since. the past week and a half has been truly bad. and a lot of it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  Under cover of darkness It's that magical time of year: the sun sets ... alarming amount of sound, and I begin to oscillate between my desk and my ... . These are the unmistakable signs of application reading season. If you

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  "]far-from-comprehensive[/annotation] list.   A handful of murals. In addition to the elephants I ... Maybe it's a little existential, but at the back of my mind, I am ... footprint at the end of all of this. Now I'm not saying that I'm dying any

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020