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• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  SoOoOoOOooooo it’s the most wonderful time of the year: IAP! That ... it. When I was a prospective student, I thought that IAP was the ... narrow my eyebrows. When does IAP start for MIT students? Most classes

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  class, it’s the first time that the number of hours my classes are supposed to take is less than the actual number of units, although it’s a bit ... considering a Spanish minor, I’ve had to backload them. Secondly, it makes me

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  : "How does anyone know if you've visited a school before? Do you have to ... , how should I go about doing it?" We have no idea who's visited and who ... eligible for fee waiver.I didn't know how to solve it so I created another

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  thing ever won’t happen for a long time still, and when it does happen, I ... calories), being with friends. This is what it looked like: The road to camp. Happy. And that above is mostly how I felt. Then I went back to Mc

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  talked it over with me today. His final words as we parted? "You've got a long night ahead of you." Great. The thing is, I know how to handle these ... Of Toolage, cementing its place in history. As long as there is MIT

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  desk instead of listening to the teacher. You probably know how it goes ... plenty of dorm rooms open, but I'm not really sure how it would work ... competition between students, and is it destructive competition? Before I give a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  take a shower! What does this mean for term life? It's actually a lot of ... semester, it's easy to forget that there exists an entire world outside of ... not being able to take a shower after a long day's work. Now picture

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  and sinigang mix. It's weird how like, we're all Filipino, but the way ... express mine. It's wild how much the three of us shared. We're all Filipino ... " each other relationship. It's strange how the internet leads to these

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  smells of wine, how long it takes to build a fire. (Although there is a ... . To quote: It's funny how I feel a little bit frantic a low ... surviving in a car. It's lovely to recall how much of myself I poured in to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  metal surface after we beam light at it. Then, each pair does three more ... structure, and how it's rotating. THE SPEED AND MEAN LIFE OF COSMIC-RAY MUONS ... they stop moving, how long do they have before they decay? All these

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  , "How does someone become an admissions officer? Was there an opening when ... , would it be too long in the past to interest the admissions committee ... your essay based on how well it's written; rather, we're reading your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  anymore. It helped me learn how to communicate better (oral communication ... /prepping presentations. It also does a good job (somewhat indirectly) of helping you figure ... next semester. This week, it's time for a slightly different discussion

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  long-distance marriage thing. But I've had a pretty productive year: I ... hitching up my covered wagon and hitting the Oregon Trail. (Is that not how ... professional aerospace engineer does in his free time. Build model airplanes

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  which it most definitely does not actually equal? See here: One of my ... . Secondly: what does Nozick tell us about how property can come to be held ... proposition that “appropriation is just” as long as it is done in a way such

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  -dimensional than most media gives us credit for. It makes me sad to think how many ... worth it. It always does. And as I packed on the stage makeup before each ... (MTG) put on its last performance of “A Chorus Line”. I was exhausted at

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  impressive” these days (thanks, Marvel), “quantum LED” really does describe how ... fiber, it would stretch over 1 billion km long![/caption] At the very ... Do you ever stop to think about how incredible computers are? I don

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  this time, I know it's probably the last time that I'll sleep in my bed before I go off and become an adult. It's kind of strange and at the same ... things. Coming back to Texas allows me to think about how my MIT

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• 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 ... Record, implying that it isn't reported on your transcript at all (for what would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  access to a Costco: it's pretty far away, and although an MIT shuttle does ... , but it's got a pretty good cabinet setup, with plenty of space for all ... are full. I have my own big cabinet, and baby... it's like Tetris in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  it's interesting whenever i blog because i've always been using what ... necessary, i end my sentences with a period. This is how I usually write on ... Kahneman and in it he talks about an intuitive, impulsive System 1 and a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018