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• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of ... whether El Jefe's Taqueria or Felipe's Taqueria is better. Anyway, I was ... [annotation note="Independent Activities Period, which runs throughout most of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  hard question — was which of those possible persons he wanted to be ... with is yourself. The only person you need to be better than is yourself ... Today is May 1, the conventional deadline for admitted students to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  .[/caption] France and Spain have a lot of influence on Andorra, as is to be expected ... nationally and some of which are elected on a parish-by-parish basis. The ... holding the French princeship is actually the president of France. Which

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  or to sleep. I seem to value the pursuit of my own goals a lot more ... 're working, then you're not, and then you have new ideas on which to work, and ... email. It's Wednesday now. On my floor is a suitcase containing a suit

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  's flagship computer club is SIPB, or the Student Information Processing Board ... upgrades since then, and is now a really pretty building of servers and ... : Nope, not power cables. It's hard to read, but each of those cables holds

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  pieces of problems to finish up on Friday morning. I wake up, make coffee ... fact, I usually actively stop myself when I get on that train of thought ... everything my class has missed out on. A lot of things still aren't the same as

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  -known projects to come out of the Rainbow Lounge is the "You Are Welcome Here ... campaign is this: any member of the MIT community who would like to ... card, to place on their office door. The stack of "you are welcome here

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  stroll to a speedwalk, or a jog, which is destructive to your steady ... -ego brain is good at its job, which is to make emergency short-term decisions ... today? Skip class to work on the pset instead. This is great on timescales

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  way to the Western Avenue Bridge, which is near the Harvard Business ... my apartment to come chill on [annotation note="the lawn in front of ... (quarter) slices of pizza from a place called Ernesto's on the same street

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  . On bad days, I have to go out to buy a salad (or eat human food that ... that we have to study the material on our own, or attend make up lectures ... essay on education. It is my first MIT composition. Until later, which is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  foundation on which to build better bad ideas. But there is always a lot going on in admissions, and we never set aside the time, or the money, to ...  emphasis on the blogs as the core distinguishing content of our site. This is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  published on the MIT Office of Digital Learning blog here.  One way to ... education. 2.009 is a semester of immersive learning, during which student ... The Festival of Learning is an annual event organized by the MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  things. This is going to be the defining picture of this school year, for ... dispenser high. It is one of the dispensers that have appeared everywhere on ... 17th. I typically try to keep swearing to a minimum on the blogs, but

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  me long time to learn all of these new subjects at MIT." It is more of ... class to do psets, find the notes on Open Course Ware and review those, or ... MIT. For those of you that don't know, the first semester at MIT is on

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  -semester concerts on the same weekend, which coincided with end-of-semester projects ... can spend time on details like dynamics or when to say the final /s/ at ... ended up staying all semester, which turned out to be a very bad idea by

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  , to which I retaliated by going out and getting Daily Paperfolding or ... better and ready to apply to MIT now? BananAPPEAL quandries: 1) Is MIT a ... ? Or is it fulfilling some sort of community service requirement? 1) We

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  had the tact to resize their photos to something on the order of 10^2 by ... proximity to dairy products. Nonetheless, Random Hall is better than Harvard ... Photo Contest, in which I objectively judged photos sent to me by CPW

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  completion my real estate agent swung by to check on the progress.  She was ... .  Part of the moving-to-Indiana process involved selling my house.  I called the real estate agent I used to buy it and we got it listed on the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  -hexoctahedral lattice is hard. In all three, there's better properties to focus on. ... in which to evaluate Amount of Work Input vs. Grade Output. There ... tries to cling on to the crumbling remnants of their high school success

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  grip of the pistol, which is shaped like a U. Then there's a front sight ... same way each time. On the third day of class we went to the range to ... look slightly blurred; that much is a consequence of focusing on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020