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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  problems are concerned with teaching you how to think, making you understand ... figure it out, but that's the point. I didn't explicitly know how to solve it. I figured it out. MIT taught me how to think. Unfortunately that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  I just wanted to say that please don't give up hope, and I know that ... you choose to go - even if it's not at MIT. I want to share with you a story. Please take it as you will. Best of luck to you as you seek out

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  teeth that need to chew on something or you’ll grow wild and mad, and so you turn to chewing on college applications. Perhaps you’re like how I was—not-thinking about MIT decisions, much like how a child does not

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  the corridor-style, long, empty hallways to the doors an walls barren ... word and some of these unfavorable conditions should be attributed to ... rather than drone on and on about how much I dislike this pseudo-prison, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  Happy holidays to all! I am writing this post for several reasons ... countdowns. 4. I've been meaning to write a post like this since the big TV ... most shows are taking holiday breaks, I've been able to catch up a bit on

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too busy to blog much lately. If you get through it all in one sitting, you're a ... had to laugh out loud when the presenter hit the button and put the live

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  , I don't care about how much financial aid we'll have to give you ... Building 100000 for you binary fans) and read, among other things, about how ... , and has heated the surrounding sidewalks up to a temperature of 138 deg

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  into the negative space to bring out paper from nowhere! How does this ... survived the death of Flash by migrating to HTML5, it hasn't lost any data ... work. Here's a link to that snowflake. If you view the snowflake on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and ... where we are now. And you just made it 15 minutes, how bad can 7.5 be?" So ... too. Almost a year ago, I wrote a blogpost about how I was halfway

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  Kerry, Ireland. It’s the launching point to walk the Kerry Way, a nine ... to Killarney. I hiked about 4 miles of the Kerry Way before it began to get dark, and my phone was dropping rapidly from 33% to 18%. It climbed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  confusing, especially considering how many different visualizations there are [annotation note="It's important to note how I am defining dimension here. By dimension, I refer to the number of independent directions on your space. The

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  my care. I'm really not sure how to account for this developing ... on All the fruit, having him explain to me how lemon guava in Malaysia ... At some point in the pandemic I began to collect tropical fruiting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  the job and I’m nervous. Do I even still remember how to write code ... something new, how about you stick to a new buffet restaurant in Chelsea? Or a ... two camps when it comes to a new year. The first camp sees it as a reset

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  all, I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. One more year to go! ... Now that I am soon to be an old, decrepit senior, I thought it might be interesting to explore some of the less-than-optimal decisions I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  of how I went from being a poor undergraduate student to being a poor ... letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life ... disillusionment, even after you pack your suitcases to the acceptable airline limit

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  to see how controllers manage the hectic load of Boston's four subway ... 's such an abundance of amazing things to do, both on campus and around the ... lot as a result, lending to my feeling that I haven't been here long. At

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  know how they’re going to go. And you always want more of them. Jobz ...  Course 17, my major. Shows you how to apply statistics to answer the world ... the clubs I have gained access to. Brain and Cognitive Sciences

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  how I take to this one, which involves a lot of modelling and frowning ... not raging against the machine, exactly, staying up late to write this; the machine is kind to me, has free seltzer and coffee in the break room

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  Working for Veterans Affairs It’s 7am on a Tuesday, and I need to get up in 3 alarm snoozes. There’s a two-step strategy to this: first, say a really bad word to activate the limbic system of the brain (science

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  perfectly matches what you would predict. So, now you know how to find a ... In 1965, Jocelyn Bell arrived at Cambridge University to earn her Ph.D. Two years later, she found herself working with four other people to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012