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  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  teach you to think about computation, and in the same way, MIT is not an ... . My circuit design was only failing one of the online tests, which meant ... ” categories. Steady-state work is recurring and regular: things like lectures

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  . This post is Part 1.0 of my favorite ways to burst the MIT bubble ... : http://www.wi-phi.com/contributor/agustín-rayo. P.P.S: Season 3 of MIT's own Science Out Loud YouTube series is now ... Boston is a marvelous city! During the school year, I have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  online by a previous lecturer, and it was not long after I discovered them ... were optional through an online lecture experiment so that was excusable ... work like that. Truth is, I did just fine. I got A's in 8.022 and 18

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  , whether home is driving distance from MIT or halfway across the world ... what to keep personal, and how you want to curate your online presence is ... practical advice recently (which is probably more helpful than this list) and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I'm probably running late (this is not an uncommon thing) 9:30am out ... for 21W.758 aka. MIT.616). I'm usually really bad at talking to ... mixed-race. This is one of the first times I've really felt like someone I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  research is the UROP project that I've been working on for almost two years now (making games is hard oops). It derives from my grad student ... 'more creative'. Now this is pretty cool, because it means that embodied

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  important stories, about MIT and about planning our futures. The first is Drop ... the MIT News Office here. It is about risk, innovation, and life plans ... MIT culture and it is about human compassion:   I also want the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  the site of the MIT Admissions visitor center. As the admissions office ... Design Services—this copy of the 1973 application to MIT is a 30-page ... with which the MIT education is described: Emphasis on fundamentals and

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  this was a mistake. it feels as if my work is tearing my body apart, as ... if my body is being pulled apart in different directions. yet at the ... refusal to reflect on what is happening in my life, but it is impossible to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  procedures; at MIT, the discussion is given prime real estate in the media. The ... at MIT. The photograph of the campus police car on the Great Dome is ... Danny Ben-David ’15 is a physics major, East Campus historian, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  linking my entire previous post. This is the MIT ESP team: We're a group ... -directors was Matt B., who is in fact not affiliated with MIT beyond ESP. We run ... Last December, I wrote Two thousand students walk into MIT, a blog

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  Not long ago, I met with an admitted MIT student, whom I will call Sam, because that is not his name. As we sat on a bench in Lobby 7, Sam told me that he had a problem. On Pi Day, he had been admitted to MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  This blog is about my hometown, which I filmed a little bit of last ... evenly between my childhood companions and my closest friends at MIT. The account is themed around the proteins in gluten, which make me irreparably

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is MITES Semester (formerly MOSTEC)?

  MITES Semester (formerly known as MIT Online Science, Technology, and Engineering Community, MOSTEC) is a six-month hybrid learning STEM and college preparation experience, free of charge, for rising high school seniors. The
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  comes. The MIT career office is a great, under-used (from what I hear ... research position in their first year at MIT? That's right! They both can. Thus is the beauty of the UROP program. UROP, noun or verb ("to UROP

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  ” or “running for president”. I had read one of the MIT blogs once, stumbling onto Anna’s post, “Being Qualified for MIT”, but only with distant fascination, fascination because it was such good writing and MIT seemed like

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  context of MIT outside the bubble is very grounding. Learn the shuttles/public transport. EZ ride is free and takes you places. Get the MIT Mobile app ... insurance, over-the-counter medication is often really cheap at MIT medical

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  all three. Long story short, as is always the case at MIT, your ... I recently saw a comic where a professor says "This is not the type ... amount of work MIT students have. I usually respond that, while students

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  , MIT is hard. It will be harder than anything you've seen. But you'll be ... difficult MIT is, and your mileage will vary (mainly due to your high school ... 4. It's not a race, really. The final piece of advice is that MIT is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a ... feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more ... , and that if I did get into MIT, it would be against all odds. Even the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014