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  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  I'm chugging into my 3rd year here at MIT blogging, studying, and ... my seat and begrudgingly turn off wifi on all my TSA-worry-inducing gadgets, I realize just how much MIT has permeated every part of my life

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  it in and make better marks than my classmates who diligently plugged ... starting with my thesis and not pausing until I'd filled 8 pages with my thoughts. I wouldn't even reread or edit my papers, just turn them in and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  answer review questions for a paper before my 1 PM 9.12 lecture. Because I clearly have no idea how to properly manage my time anymore, I decided to ... turf war over my pillow. Yeah, my PILLOW. That I SLEEP ON. NOT COOL

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  The bridge of one of my favorite songs goes: Malingap, buwis ... of frats hosted a boat cruise, where my friend took me along as his ... it,” he said. I used to feel that way about my social life, sometimes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  be on my way to living that dream Suisse way of life. Simple as that. Or so I thought. Here's the progression of my todo list leading ... ;Submit my transcript, passport photo, headshot, CV, motivation letter to ETH

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  culture of Conner 2 during my stay there. To the best of my knowledge there ... units of my floormates but I remember a few. A Tang measured orthogonality ... name were a unit of measure, what would it measure?" Over my four years

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  , outreach, and production. We also have a blog, where I'll be writing about my ... can even read my daily reflection posts, if you want, or track any other ... is part of why my vlogging experiment for the Admissions Blogs is so

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  for MIT?" My mind went blank. Qualified? What a strange word. I thought ... didn't go well at all. On Thursday night, after my last exam was over, I stayed up until a totally unreasonable hour doing my 8.03 pset, which I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  need to do my real analysis homework by mistake The details are rather much the same as last time. I took the model I previously trained on my ... was wrong. i guess i was kinda sad and that my haikus werent that great

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  gravity." Many of my classmates said they dreamed of being astronauts, or of building the first rocket to take astronauts to Mars. Some of my classmates were pilots themselves. One of my classmates related anecdotally how he

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  I wrote this on my first day of classes this past Tuesday, and ... . My sleep schedule, I feel, is about 2 hours later than normal working ... brushing my teeth and washing my face, throwing on clothes, fussing with my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  A lot of different people have been asking me about my prospective ... feel just peachy about my life choices. Several months later, I ... simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  cj: it turns out that people in my hall like making guest posts so here’s another guest post from my friend, jacky. he cooks. he’s really ... in character for jacky don’t worry"][/annotation] I admit that my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dating At MIT: Episode 1 So two of my favorite '09s have just started dating each other...

  

  . They're just too cute not to share. ----------------- Edit, 4PM, my ... So two of my favorite '09s have just started dating each other (it ... , general cuteness.) I love this place. So Mollie can tell you all about

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  my own experiences with rejection, waitlists, and more, as a part of ... 15']my own process of applying to grad school,[/annotation] where to be ... my feelings will resonate with you. Maybe they won’t. But maybe this

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  kindly tolerated my expletives. “Maybe I’ll have a six-pack by the end ... , and yes, on many highways. My favorite part of traveling is visiting ... walk in, even if only for an hour or so. My least favorite part of

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  wasn't THAT long ago....was it? So imagine my surprise when I convince ... 're not clumsy or stupid anymore. My clumsy stupid step in 2012 was ... investors who were my heroes because they'd done incredible things – one of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

   have all made appearances during my time at MIT because of some sort of ... , to that weird, weird group of people. After finding out that my name ... Engineering) have a discussion with our chancellor Eric Grimson, I packed up my

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  's about all I remember. Battle on, Mandelbrot. My friend and labmate Steph ... 're ever torn between these two majors, as I was earlier in my MIT career, my ... --the WHY of chemistry or the HOW of chemical engineering. That's actually my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  one. one of my coworkers, john, lives on a boat. last sunday, father's day, john invited me and two other members of my team, joseph and claire ... you can't." two. in my continued adventures with the american

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022