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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  lecture for worldbuilding, Junot Díaz talked about how people need to escape ... seems to track how good I feel I am at math, because that's the thing I ... the way burnout from fall semester seems to carry over, about how

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  all. HOW THE HECK DO YOU CALCULATE THE MAXIMUM DOPPLER SHIFT POSSIBLE TO ... post. Disclaimer: I gave myself exactly one hour to write this post ... a mental list of all the things that had to be accomplished between 7

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  out how to navigate the Institute, the year when we teamed up to make ... ) + (when I) asked Zach how to solve a 8.02 problem and Steve how to solve my ... QUOTE: “I think MIT is the closest thing to Hogwarts on this planet

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  , like you do in your normal posts? alan: if this is how cj wants to ... it'd be a good idea to try to write a blog like this, when you could ... 's an admissions blogger. he has an obligation to post regularly. it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  an email sent out to Course 6 Class of 2019. My friend had also sent it out to a group chat, and we all drooled at the thought of spending ... . I had been on the lookout for other options, and ETH seemed to be the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  college admissions essay was supposed to present all the best sides of me ... whole and misrepresentative of what I really wanted to write about.   Fast forward to today, and I can point to every misconception in the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  This New Year, I want to try a resolution that would mandate how I ... starting over. No delays to tomorrow, next week, or next month. No more "I ... ." Instead: "I'm going to figure out my weak points in Physics and work my way

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  Cavity” to show me how much more I need to learn and make me okay with that ... To those of you who sent in your early apps - congrats! You're done! With one! (The secret to life is to celebrate the little accomplishments

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  to take a few classes, write a million blog entries for you guys about all the things I kept meaning to write and then never got around to, and ... write a paper. Details to come, so stay tuned. 21M.733: Design for the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  've decided to make some little videos for you. Have you ever noticed how ... "Look at at all this free time I have! I'm going to fill it to the brim ... . A flashback to a previous entry is probably a good way to begin this

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  , and everyone around you may be a huge jerk, but they know how to walk ... In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have some very mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I am excited to get

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  all of the traffic. For months I brainstormed on how to take that ... having known you. If you've had an interview, I get to read about how you come across in person to someone you've just met - how your face lights

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

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  Oxford comma advocate.  Gotta stick to some principles in life.) And so I decided it was time to write another blog post. What would present-day-56 ... , but also in the knowledge tested on exams.  You can't expect to skate by

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  how to improve the litter removal process from highways. After a ton of ... — 4 of which were the past week. I’m going to take you along for the journey of that week, and what it's like to have both a mix of soccer and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  emotionally taxing. From August 23rd to the 30th, dorms hosted events to introduce frosh to their culture and subcommunities, which was the equivalent ... happens in the week first-years get to happens"]REX.[/annotation]Then, frosh

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  contradiction: consider how we perceive our admission to an “elite” college: MIT ... Desserts by Ceri R. '16 DNA and How to Extract It by Lydia K. '14 MEng '16 ... Dear MIT Protofrosh, If I had a time machine, I’d travel to my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ’s exciting too. UROP Project: How to Fail Six Imaginary Students In out ... . Life’s entropy continues to increase. It’s a paradox: the more time I spend exploring life, the less I know what to do with said life. My career

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  these parts. How is your brother doing? Oh, this kid? He’s going to be in ... took advantage of another MIT-related communications outlet to tell you ... -optimal thing. But now I’m back, with a little less self promotion, to join in

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  factor" . The weight assigned to each feature depends on how much it ... the program are to introduce students to university research, both how ... patterns and voice tones to rate people -- on a scale of 0 to 100 percent

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  changes from home to college ... what to bring, how you’ll spend those last ... how conservative), and you’re all ready to GO. It feels like the "right ... I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008