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• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  I will no longer see Professor Winston, one of the few professors who ... had picked up from the author of the paper we read.   He was an ... experienced someone who thoroughly understood and contributed to the magic of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  about the frame of reference that you use. When studying relative motion ... investigate where your frame of reference lies. No, put away the calculators and ... accepted, rejected, or waitlisted isn't the end of anything but a phase

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• 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 / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  end, it wound up being my favorite essay out of all the ones I wrote for ... . Full disclosure, I didn’t get admitted into any of the schools I applied ... ’ve faced”: Failing the last competitive math test of my career (to be fair

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  webmaster, Odyssey of the Mind, marching band, writing awkward blog posts ... Stranger to the Rain is one of my favorite songs to sing ever, but on top of ... window wistfully, thinking of how much I'd miss my mother in the coming

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  in by the end of January and they will be seen by your readers ... accessibility of the admissions officers, etc.). We try to connect with you on an ... want to thank all of you who had my back today and who wrote in with

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  here's the thing: most of my MIT friends are currently in the ... to meet up with all of them since I'm hosed all the time. given current ... , but is it enough? should I be trying harder, given that the majority of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  drew schematics of it. This is easily the most male-heavy Course 9 class ... lots of people, both among the students and among the staff. I don ... It is term, and now I have classes! Five of them, right now. I hope

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  A couple days ago in the blogger slack, Petey sent a screenshot of a ... this side of the coin paints an incomplete picture. At the same time that ... break and spring break, we do personal art for the first time in months of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  as much as I cook (I'll let you figure out the rate of each) neither ... left it in one of the side compartments of the MIT ambulance so we walked ... bluejeans and a shirt, definitely not what the president of MIT would ever

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  , the streets after a day of rain reflecting colors in the sky, and I said ... the world to ease the pressure of having to choose a direction for "my ... should be, what would I think was the most striking thing? Would it be the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  is over, you can walk out of the ring with your head held high and know ... Fenway in the massive crowds of people: And managed to snag some Red Sox ... it: The seats weren't bad. We sat in the back of the outfield. A

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  -scratch inventions and creations get our attention in the same way that many of those ... MAKE Magazine and MAKE blog. Both the zine and the blog highlight many of ... Instructables: A project of the MIT-alumni company Squid Labs (who "make a lot of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  advance of the January 1 deadline, if you can. It will save you and us some ... While reading applications, I've thought of a number of things of ... Applicants Schedule your interview now.* The deadline (December 1) to schedule

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  used to keep track of the funny and/or ridiculous things our group of ... adapted it, and now I have a detailed record of the funny and idiotic things that my MIT professors have said. Actually, some of the things are more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  . losing the files on my laptop and having to pay a good amount of money for a new one sucks, but what i find most tragic is the loss of my laptop ... is the first of my two Taiwan stickers that were designed by artist

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  used by a variety of colleges. It has all of the basic e ... type a couple of commands, which I detail in the next video. There you ... Gmail or MIT interchangeably, all from the comfort of your pre

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  Oh my god. I can't stop thinking about all of the people who have ... the comments. Most importantly - those of you from the areas that were ... too). It's a feeling of helplessness - other than donating money I don

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  knocks my glasses off my face. i put on the hood of my sweatshirt and ... students. the discussion of how to create housing groups was an anxiety ... very lazy person in terms of meeting people—thanks to the pandemic—so i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  one concern i hear from a lot of people on-the-fence is of mit ... everything else that can be said about it. the fact that i chose mit says less about mit than it does about me. for the same reason, there's only

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022