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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  'sup yall? Sorry I haven't blogged lately. The truth? I've been ... couldn't have done it without all your help. I feel kind of guilty begging ... geek points built up to get some of the cool expensive stuff (if I didn't

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  any other college, did and does this. MIT, however, decided that it didn't ... pamphlet-creating admissions officers can't convey. MIT does its best to ... exist. I don't sugar coat things, I don't always try my hardest to please

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  as GIRs (pronounce each letter, don't call them grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrs ... to MIT to learn math, chemistry, or biology. As such, I struggled/didn't ... semester here. MIT doesn't want to make you cry (though it happens), so they

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  As you may already be aware, today is Ben's birthday! I won't ... . So in case you didn't know, I should probably tell you that Ben is pretty much one of the most popular guys on campus. (Not that we don't love

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  professor. You don't understand a single thing in the notes or the book. In short, you're screwed. Ease and dexterity won't be showing up anytime soon ... ," you want to say, "NO. YOU DON'T GET IT. I CAN'T LEARN MATH AND I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  if you don't like what I'm about to say or how I said it. It was once a ... two-digit range of essays, and I didn't even use all of them. I wrote ... previous year (or even the one you have this year, but I don't suggest it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  of music when we've run out of nervous banter and can't think of ... on? What if our music collections really aren't that good at all ... time slot in the first place?! Didn't they realize what they were about

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  conspiracy theory here, usually related to her gender]. History hasn't been kind to Rosalind. I'm ashamed to say that I didn't even realize how good of a scientist she was until I read the book. Hell, I didn't even

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  lost sleep. It's really kind of pathetic, actually. I haven't even unpacked anything yet. Yeah, I know. I never said I wasn't a slacker. Anyway ... it a good idea, is it a bad idea, will I fall behind if I don't take

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  fifth grade about my future aspirations. Now, you can't argue about the ... will tell her she may have any job she wants. It really doesn't matter if ... will be very humble, but I don't care. To me, money isn't needed. I just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  , and Morgan doesn't want to "waste" grant money on a new ice machine when ... dropped my ice bucket. (Luckily it didn't spill, so I managed to get out of ... a question to which Professor Sheng didn't know the answer, Professor

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  discussion about test scores] doesn't make me think of SAT scores or grades. It ... that having great grades and scores doesn't really help you - it just ... applications. [read more] "Stu Saves The Pact" Just when I thought I couldn't

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  . It wouldn’t be sensible to have an instinct to need them anymore. I promised myself that I wouldn’t throw up again without my dad there. It’s a ... don’t throw up. If you keep doing that you’re going to throw up. Don’t

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  for food I didn’t even find that good. So, I’ve spent the last five ... everything they’re also mine, for now. I won’t go into things like pots or pans ... but don’t realize how useful they are. Here are some of my favorite

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  I don't feel like trying for this post. lol I tried to do this style ... as we all know, that didn't really pan out. I always try to use summers to catch up on the hobbies that I don't actually partake in at all

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  when it was short, but this wasn't the case, because the line was that ... could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't ... I hadn't been working on my UROP. I say this in a sort of half

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  syndrome from me. I was going to write a blog post about it, but I couldn’t ...  attack. It picked up on my bad procrastination habits too. I can't say I ...  softmax or reLU. I didn’t need to know anything about machine learning to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  people will always want to apply/commit, there isn't as much of a need to ... college, per se. We don't need to spend the money on a huge, beautiful quad ... 1900s and overall Cambridge-history that MIT can't control."]any good

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  MIT classes and essentially all required classes don't actually have one ... favorite class so far so I wasn't particularly stressed? I haven't taken ... based on the class--for 18.02 they take attendance but I haven't tested if

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  takeout. My mom and dad both worked demanding jobs, and didn’t have time to ... single simple dish–the glorious sunny side up egg–I also didn’t find time ... , I don’t want to seem like I’m ungrateful for my parents. Speaking from

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024