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Blog / How to MIT
“Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz
Michael Plasmeier, aka The Plaz, is a junior at MIT studying Course 6 (or EECS). His website – ThePlaz.com – also has a wiki, and on this wiki, he shares… -
Blog / Challenges
Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.
Heads up: this post contains references (italicized) to the song “Help!” by the Beatles. Relevant verse reproduced at the bottom, for your convenience. – When I was younger, so much… -
Blog / Athletics
Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…
ready for life after MIT. He has interviewed at Google, Microsoft and -
Blog / Admissions
Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.
with them later in life." One way Garay hopes to do well is by being well -
Blog / Admissions
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.
I've done a couple of posts about life at MIT, so I figure it's time ... your life. Raw numbers of hours probably don't speak as much as the hours ... , and it serves as a nice cushion in the adjustment to college life. I -
Blog / MIT Life
Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."
the best way to talk about my life since I last wrote without publishing ... ) sung to Dean Benedict, our fairly popular dean for student life, to -
Blog / MIT Life
Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]
didn't want to delay what seemed like my entire life for a whole year -
Blog / Admissions
CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!
By Omar Abudayyeh ’12 While I’m not cool enough to enroll at MIT on an iTouch or to dedicate myself to MIT for four years weeks before CPW, I am… -
Blog / Academics & Research
Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!
section of my life. Because MIT requires all students to take 8 classes in ... enjoying the finer things in life - especially good food, sleeping in, and ... schedule might look like next year! This comic pretty much sums up my life -
Blog / Events
Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.
, etc.) and a life sized version of the Monopoly car game piece. After -
Blog / Events
Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!
Sunday wasn’t productive. Seriously, you try working when you know that in less than 24 hours you’ll be in New York and playing with toys. Maddie and I planned on… -
Blog / Events
“Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!
Mystery Hunt ended just over a week ago and I think it’s safe to say that many people are still recovering from it. I’ve been trying really hard to work… -
Blog / Events
A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…
I’ve missed mystery hunt every year so far. Freshman year I found myself sick and just laid in bed the first two days of the hunt, feeling moldy. By Sunday… -
Blog / About Decisions
Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…
getting in) is not the defining moment of your life. You're only 18 years ... you have a right to be. Sometime life really sucks. So take a few days ... these guys. In real life. They say they care. And they really do. (And if -
Blog / Admissions
Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.
-school student and his mother about campus social life. While discussing ... lighted tiki torches while talking about his life. "I remember telling him ... and challenged the admissions staff to put his life together. It was a -
Blog / Academics & Research
Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.
school life will go something like this: Wake up. Go to lab. Come home. Go -
Blog / Academics & Research
Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.
watch you graduate...but I could not for the life of me figure out what -
Blog / Academics & Research
Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…
Physics, which, despite being the hardest class I ever took in my life, was ... NOT taking unified as a sophomore, my life will pretty much suck. So in -
Blog / Personal Travel
Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.
. Sometimes my life is strangely beautiful. Billing itself as "an alternative ... jacket more than I have ever loved any object, place, or person in my life ... dollars. Chapter 3: Spanish Bombs Of course, every single day in my life