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• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  blog to show that there *isn't* a 'best way' to choose where to apply ... ; Several months back, I realized that I wasn’t “toying with going to grad school” anymore — I want to try for a master's. I’d been playing with the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  at the time, so i learned a lot - every time i wanted to visit a new ... district is confusing to navigate because a silly surveyor decided to align ... was never cleaned up properly, how the government tried to relocate

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  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 ... ; two pairs of jeans; just enough socks, shirts, and underwear to get by

  • 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

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

  

  challenging classes I’ve ever taken. It’s a natural followup to MIT’s Introduction to Algorithms class, and dives into the heart of designing and understanding often complicated solutions to important computational problems

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

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  admissions counselor fashion - I'm going to use this last pulpit opportunity ... excuse to NOT to maintain our friendship.) Ok - Dear Prefrosh, There are still some little things bugging me that I want to say before I leave, so

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  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 ... 're intending to look at . Basically, it's extraneous, hard to get rid of, and the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  Google Calendar. It is slightly amusing to see fellow classmates toting multicolored, multi-ringed, colorful planning books complete with enough pens to ... classmate next to me opened up her Google Calendar (complete with tabbed

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  very little awake time during the week and there isn't a whole lot to ... application, the Celtics riots, the Red Sox game I went to, yadda yadda yadda, but there's just so little time to write when I could be sleeping. So

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  's really not much else to say about that. Incidentally, are there some ... the best way to talk about my life since I last wrote without publishing ... things. Also, lists are really easy to comment on, because you can say

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  This semester, I decided to take 21W.762 Poetry Workshop taught by Ed Barrett. I've always wanted to learn how to write poetry, being too afraid to really just dive into it since it felt cringey or awkward. This

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  .[/annotation] As someone fairly attached to the Next community, I was initially kind ... EC history, but it quickly became obvious to me this was not a problem ... , seriousness when necessary, and genuine care that really stood out to me

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  fruit, beckoning for me to reach out and grab them. it seems every ... make myself busier. when i have a bad day, i buy myself a coffee to make it better. when i’m having a good day, i buy myself a coffee to

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  I watched the sunrise this morning

  

  one of the reasons I love dawn is it reminds me that the sun will always rise on my worst of days during my best of times no matter what…

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 7, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  My highest achievement at MIT.

  

    [caption id="attachment_104348" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Third to last day of the archery class I took for my final PE ... 's the closest I'll ever get to it.

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  feel a little creepy. On a graph of human likeness to attraction/repulsion, uncanny valley refers to the sharp dip. There are several theories about why ... that mimicked humans to get closer to us. Whatever the case, this topic

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Simmons Cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat

  

  I love being back in Simmons after a long break. I get to hang out ... House’s dog) roaming the hallways. But we have plenty of cool stuff to ... , silly me – I forgot to introduce myself! Hey there, little guy. I’m Andi

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 4, 2023
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can a family member contact MIT Admissions on my behalf, or ask questions about the content or status of my application?

  No, it is MIT policy to communicate directly with applicants about their applications, rather than with their family members. If you have a question, please email us from the email address that you used to register
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  here. Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel ... to name; that's okay, too. We have posted more information on next

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  addict myself to new sources of caffeine).  When we stress-test welds in ... . “Objectively you have a limit,” I thought to myself. "Somewhere north of four classes and south of sixteen. You don’t need to find it. You don’t have to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022