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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  's working on a thesis right now, but the pre-finals frenzy (read: cramming assignments into the two to three weeks before finals) means that I also need to ... all of this will be going up on the blogs quite soon, but first, a brief

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  school – I was definitely of the “I’m not technology-oriented enough to go to MIT” mind-set. And last time I checked, this was the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, not the Massachusetts Institute of Totally

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  struggling under the sudden influx of CPW-related e-mails, and my willpower to ... into the CPW live chat already know, your hosts will be contacting you ... already knew, but for many of you, that won't be the case. It's not a bad

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  .01-Intro to EECS EECS, for those of you who didn't stare at the floor during ... quick and dirty introduction to the fundamentals of circuit building and ... Materials II The sequel to the critically acclaimed "Mechanics and Materials I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  've been wanting to blog about. THE SHARPE BROTHERS A while back, on the front page of the Boston Globe was an article about two brothers at MIT who perform (juggle? spin? What's the correct verb for this?) diabolo

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  , or limit the things you can do. You owe it to yourself to find the ... it's not the goal. It's the beginning. Enjoy the last few months of high school as much as you can, a ton of stuff is going to happen in the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  still in its embryonic stages, shuttled off my finished webpage into the abysmal depths of the Internet, and didn't capitalize any proper nouns in the banner, for some unknown reason. Anyway, as much as I admire the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  a good portion of you, the pressure is on, as there's officially ... what you have to do now? Chill out. Seriously, pat yourselves on the ... your hands, don't let the rest of the world pass you by. I'm sure it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  promise I haven't fallen off the earth! Coming off of pass/no record, though ... learning community that offers all of the core classes in smaller classes. It's a pretty big shift coming from the typical freshman classes of 200

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  The beginning of a new term is always accompanied by a mix of anxiety ... commitment, but ultimately bring me a lot of joy or pride. So the question ... , you have probably realized that there is an “Activities” portion to the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  "The author has filed this entry in the 'Life After MIT (Careers ... have the GRE on Saturday. So I intended to study the entire flight; instead, I slept. Land in Houston. Now, here was one of the most exciting

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  Yesterday one lucky prefrosh got to be hosted by me through the MIT ... . The next day Adam took my German I exam--I mean, he took it along with ... understood about six words, and then corrected my answer to the last question

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  th West 2nd East 4th East And on to the point of the entry... One ... . For example, over the weekend, I went to Random Hall for boffer combat on the roofdeck. Boffing is very popular at Random - well, it's popular

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  Here's a list of things that I consider love languages, because the ... products that I feel the immediate need to have in my possession: Sanrio merch and heart-shaped objects. I hope you understand the effect that this

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  ’t think I actually fully realized just how much it all is until the first ... remember why it was that I went home, but one Friday I took the train down to New York, had tea with my mom, then jumped straight into the [annotation

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  eleven, not until you're almost twelve. That's the way it is.” working on ... ) made me relive the times i grinded through those tedious psets with my ... him reevaluate his life reminded me of the times when i, too, had a

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  When I was applying to MIT, I thought that was the single application that would determine the entire course of my life. I thought that if the ... eighteen-year-old mind didn’t realize that this application was the first of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  thought that it would be more of the same; but I couldn’t not go, for it ... again to learn -- not only math and why the hell the Heisenberg ... tried to cancel out the d’s in dy/dx as one would do with fractions. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  i'm the kind of person who is very motivated by the prospect of ... any of the goals i set. i was HYPED about starting a bullet journal a ... day of the month. but my streak for filling said chart out lasted a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  i'm currently in the midst of my second week of online school. things ... this time spent living at home to do the things i don't have the time to ... feel occupied enough to avoid the quarantine tedium. and it feels very

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020