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• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  somewhere several email addresses ago, but I do remember that Matt, who was ... me to be better (and helped me grow to get there), doing work I thought ... blond hair and more enthusiasm than prudence a shot at trying to do some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  her all the best and I really do mean it. She was taking some tough ... them. I know she’ll do great. I walk to my hall’s kitchen and ... I had psets to do and exams to study for. My doctor is really nice

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  teaching, the actual tasks I carried out, what I learned from doing it, and ... moves we were doing. In particular, we discussed spinal anatomy, different ... relate that knowledge to the stretches I do with my workouts. [compensation

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  selection committee really knows what they're doing. I then read the next ... other 98 percent doing? Fink joked that we could have named this ... 't expect them to do all of our work for us. Some people at MIT are

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  can actually do well in - all my years of being good at English class ... have been a Course 7. Other things I'm doing this semester: UROP: One ... do a good job and gain a lot of experience in planning and managing

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  year I decided to document the process. Since I'm from LA, I do not have ... /2 = $170/person. That said, I feel like after doing this 3 times I should ... college. Put the stuff that you do have in smaller boxes. From someone who

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  A few Fridays ago, I sat down (as I normally do at the end of a long ... dialogue: “Ravinder, you can do calculations in your head that the average ... , when do you add salt to your okra? At the beginning? Or the end? (student

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  and different ties to groups in need. Do you know what that means to me? Do you know what message that sends to a student like myself entering a ... revolutionary force doing just that.   Class of 2018, I invite you to open up

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

   whole year had passed. I remember my Pi Day very clearly, but I do not ... of why I fucked up. And you know what? Next year I’ll probably do the ... do enough. But think of it this way: you’re here for a reason. Find

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  that do us good. It traps in and uses dead air as an insulator, keeping ... ). And even if you do have a healthy set of lungs, constantly breathing in ... word). I have seven pairs of gloves (why do you have seven pairs of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  to do it had our freaking amazing friend not helped us from 11pm - 2am ... here is a picture of us and our grandma doing our massive amount of ... really do just have to relax. We were pretty bummed that we didn’t get to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  Consulting Group. I'm also staffed on a travel case and will be doing a final ... another and with my classes I don't even know what to do or where to go ... emails. Disclaimer: I do forward and keep the important ones in my personal

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  , but students do not have assigned seats and are encouraged to move ... amounts of information and, by doing so, acquire critical thinking skills ... like Uber and Amazon, as well as creation of their own start-ups. They do

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  ’s a logistical thing to do before you start.” I was so excited for ... I do in this area for a summer job?” Experimenting in College Stuff I ... . Conclusion: college has been fun, but I still have no idea what I will do in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  thinking, “hmm I wonder what happens if the glass gets cold how do you even ... COOL BUT THEY ARE ALSO REALLY HARD TO MAKE BUT I ACTUALLY WAS DOING WELL ... minutes to do something that took me like 20…) made another great creation

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  I cared more than I do today. I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad ... talk with are reconciling their freshman dreams of doing important and ... to procrastinate psetting, and doing routine things that aren’t fun

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  how I really want to do part-time work for a VC firm this fall and he ... , Martin Trust Center, MIT $100K, Startlabs, Sloan, do.it@MIT, E-Club, Sloan ... they're doing.   At the Martin Trust Center, entrepreneur

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  no good photos of that night, I do remember having a good time dancing ... 't catch the aurora on our trip, and this was our final opportunity to do so ... and I'll see what I can do! I unfortunately won't be at many scheduled

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  any work, but then life happened and school exploded and my to-do list ... with investors, executives, and doing other mysterious professional CEO ... a class I’d started remotely - the one I wanted to do instead of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  spend exploring life, the less I know what to do with said life. My career ... , like: What are the existing forms of CBL? How do CBL institutions define ... 'm working currently on reducing that number. Tell Us about Something You Do

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016