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  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  ago about all of the machine shops on campus? That was done by request ... campus machine shops, awkwardly taking pictures of random people I didn ... give me some of yours. =) 3. Ask good questions. If you ask me “does MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  building things, like Q in James Bond. Around age 7, I had played the video ... throwing. Each participant has a time slot of 1 minute to perform in front ... Qualiflyer; he was one of 3 students who had to be taken to the MIT basketball

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  after turning on the Admissions Machine the day after applications are due ... to do is build a community, and an admissions machine cannot produce a ... . Now obviously there are many factors at play here, but the trend is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  and ridiculousness emerge in costume form. Reason 3 of 1 bajillion: An ... figure man from xkcd, an array of characters from Doctor Who (the tardis ... the TV show.) It was pretty fantastic. Two shown below: 3: Food

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  ! In the opening moments, Marc Abrahams (the man behind the whole Ig ... the other two, and found out that the man lives in Italy (I think it was ... -armed man for applauding" ** A group from Thailand for "the medical

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  video, made with love (though with poor video editing skills) and I hope ... taken on pi day, so it's still a pi day video! Good luck to all you 2019s, no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  etc. Later in noon when i was free, some younger sister of one of my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  free to add a section as your schedule and the size of that section

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  . Either way, it made for an exciting ride. Ironically, in spite of getting ... too bleak, especially because Class of '22 still get to take 3 GIRs on P

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  stories. Not so great for lying awake in the dark at 3am. My family on ... myself to move on, and that makes it worse. 3 Two people that helped me ... myself to breathe. Sometimes I get a meditation video out to help me accept

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  . For me, a reset usual means yoga, food prep, laundry, ironing, and maybe ... mindlessly murdering ogres again."]video game.[/annotation] But because of all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  concentrate. I decided to play video games to distract myself and, as it turns ... played a part, too.) It turns out Japanese hotel lobbies are very quiet ... playing on the radio. I cried happy tears while reading the letter. I got

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  of how things were playing out. I remember, during IAP (Independent ... called me out and said man, you need to be careful because last semester

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  place. You get people to work with on homework for free. You have people

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  stories that have stuck and relevant snippets of my own life. ([1][2][3 ... fiction). 3. How has your college decision impacted the rest of your life ... head down, probably stuck in a book. (Ironically, one of those long

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  Oh man, it has been a while and a half since I’ve blogged. However ... you should do this week in 3 easy steps (results not guaranteed, though ... that it is not in my job description to deal with. 3) Read over your

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ending. (3) Because in between classes, I might eat lunch in Killian ... 'll write about the final product soon! (8) Because we get cool toys to play

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  in the roughly 3 minute music video. I tallied the dancers and tried to ... tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... original video (with Taron Egerton superimposed into it). https

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  about privacy issues at the end of the video - there are serious ... because although he is a very smart kid, he didn't really know how to play fair (or play at all) in an adult's world at the beginning. He didn

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  later, I woke up at 3 pm after sleeping for 14 hours. With my eyes wide ... change, and the beautiful human beings around me at MIT. Ironically, I have ... are a wonderful bunch. <3    

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015