Search

Search Results

• 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 / 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 / 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

  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 / 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

  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 / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  credit for me, but also accelerated my blacksmithing knowledge and practice ... knot, inspired by my classmate's project of tying knots and weaving metal ... ="attachment_84089" align="alignnone" width="384"] my original design! The key ring

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  crust.  The two things this semester that I put most of my energy towards were: writing a first author paper on my UROP work helping run the ... within 2 days of each other, making my November quite literally full of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  [/annotation] came into my head, and i thought the words were really fitting for the ... because my mind was swarmed with thoughts, thoughts of what my decision ... would be, i felt sick to my stomach. a college's admission decision, for

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  feels awful. Instead, tell yourself: "In my circumstances, I tried my ... , whatever works). Let's do it together: In my circumstances, I tried my best

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  Hello, everyone! Most especially, hello 2019s everywhere! I ran around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall spouting some bits of wisdom and occasional pi facts. I put together this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older ... Harvard Bridge during a thunderstorm this past summer. My first glimpse of ... enough wind to annihilate my umbrella and propel the rain through my jacket

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  I have a personal blog that I write about my teenagers and I haven ... this way. My son has a pile of graduation thank you notes to write and I ... have the same feeling when I look at my personal blog and realize it

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about ... up in my inbox. I think it is very interesting! Check it out...   ... (Georgetown JD) "I work on quantitative stock trading out of my living room

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  complete my distribution. The first assignment is called "Critter": the goal ... ). Here is my critter. [annotation note="Disclaimer: I cannot draw well at all and I only have Sharpies. Please excuse the sloppiness and my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  Sublime Text, trying to hammer out code. Hours staring at my text editor ... Messenger. I work for an hour, and then I’m lying on bed scrolling through my ... when I’m asleep. So if we graph my ability to do work in a given day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  sailing photos, but I'm not confident enough in my abilities to bring ... this post were taken with a compact camera that I carry in my pocket.  I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  MIT has a lot of resources that could have made my freshman year a ... system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my ... my best to actually bring you useful information applicable to the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011