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• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  logged out of the Athena machine I'd tied my existence to for the entire ... build apps with them." Confusion persisted. "I fail to understand your ... coded a ray caster for 6.837, the computer graphics class that has been

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  wasting everyone’s time and asking for too much help. Similar to how I ... until I got to MIT my freshman year. I got a pair for $25 with kneepads ... friend who also skated at MIT to teach me how to step over cracks and brake

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  add money to a TechCash account and whenever your ID is swiped anywhere ... , compared to the current five days a week for some. Further, the dorm dining ... compulsion to eat at dining halls for almost every meal (if not every meal

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  to rush in between; plus I just found out p-sets for that class are due ... done during IAP? Feel free to discuss your new goals for 2010 - now that apps are, for the most part, history! Lastly, Happy New Year’s, of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  listen to an admissions presentation, take a campus tour, visit a lab, and talk to some of the current students. I was on campus for a grand total ... gone out of their way to tell me how ridiculously yet awesomely nerdy my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  classmate forgot to bring her glasses for our end-of-semester shooting ... it is physically impossible for me to travel more than a few feet ... how well your classmate is doing. The goal, of course, is to compare his

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  . And they don't just want to meet you--they're looking for people to go and work for them. People are dressing to the nines and lining up around the block to get in for the chance to talk, face-to-face, with these

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  classes and so should legally not be allowed to register for more than I can ... scientist, that I didn't have to struggle and strive for a job coding 9-to-5 ... the Charles river. I was back for rowing and to UROP but I spent most of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  last thing I want after a week of lectures is a lecture on “how to be a ... Engineering major, I learn how to work with others who may or may not share my ... ’s schedule. Luckily for me, my classes are unique enough that I don’t spend

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  applicant "competitive," how we make decisions on which students to admit. We ... discussed. How do you apply for financial aid? Should you apply for it? What ... . This is also a good chance for students to meet their interviewer face-to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  : nope. can someone explain to me the passage of time? how to avoid growing old? can someone tell me how i got here, and there, and to all these ... foundation crumble. I could write about how no one knows what's going to happen

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  started to look less like a container for storing robots and more like an ... also consumed my remaining free time for breakfast. To the unending ... long run. To compensate for the sleep debt accumulated throughout my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  student: faculty ratio. For freshmen and prospective students, how ... beneficial to me for the most part. So during the summer before MIT, one of ... applying mainly to Terrascope and ESG for learning communities, though the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  " O.C. on September 28th). My visit to Orlando, by the numbers ... geographic traits to New Orleans, Venice. A quick Google news search produced a recent New York Times article as well: Bras says sensor technologies for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  of how to prepare for MIT tests in general. Although I had been ... back during IAP, before I'd started having to actually do any work for ... professors stick around for at least a few minutes to answer any one

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  additional, cylindrical information for you soon. It was simple math, if he made it, that mean I made it Everything I had was for the team, I ... above us, bless our hearts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-PO1_fzxVM

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  how (not?) to concentrate a quick guide

  

  food; order more Wait for more food to come; browse memes They forgot the breadsticks; call back Eat food Wait for breadsticks; try to ... concentrate; fail Google how to concentrate Wikihow how to concentrate

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • May 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  in my form (to the lovely Jessie, I might add), I ran into my friend ... , so naturally the conversation turned to our plans for next year. Akhil ... , we're going to leave the rest of that thought for a later day. (If I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  look around and sketch my surroundings, or try to add a stanza to a poem ... to study for the 8.022 exam when your notes are neat and have pretty ... day would be fairly dull to keep up, at least in my opinion. It's really

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  to take a few classes, write a million blog entries for you guys about ... write a paper. Details to come, so stay tuned. 21M.733: Design for the ... whole "cover letter" routine and hope for the best while trying not to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009