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• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  . Apparently a credit score is a thing that people care about here. The thing is, for the longest time, I thought the idea of "building credit" was ridiculous. The going advice is that you shouldn't go over 30% of your credit

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  -grade teacher told us all to “divide your page in half.” The other students made ... with the notion of “half”, I did a zig-zag that still partitioned the page into two equal areas. The teacher, who by this time of the school

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  is my favorite time of the year! I love registering for classes because ... CMS class requirement, but aside from that, I have the freedom to pick ... principles to understand the structure and reactivity of organic molecules

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  throw down the anchor. I could revisit what I knew to be true. Looking back on the post, I think its ridiculous. I think it is needlessly ... artifacts of reality crashing to the floor. If it was a creature, it would

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  during the spring term of their freshman year. I'm a fairly decisive person ... increasingly interact with technology that mimics their own capabilities, the need for students to understand both the science and engineering of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  The Problem: A reviewer went "You guys did things while assuming that cells exchange their water in the matter of milliseconds. Proof?" The ... ,000 number That’s half the terms I want. This is going well.   1:37 am

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  been one of my favorite Christmas songs. You can read the lyrics here. Let me get this out of the way, first: I think this cover isn't great. I ... the original instead, because it's better. If the cover's bad, then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  with “Try not to drink the media.” This really just implies that cell ... (including biotin and vitamin B12) Taste: 8/10 “Like lemonade, without the lemons”  Is this safe??: ?/10 The [annotation note="safety data sheet

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  Vegas). This flight is 6 hours long, but for the past 6 hours, I’ve been ... . This post is hard to write. Not in the emotional “I’m not ready to say goodbye” kind of way. Rather, it’s hard in the sense that I don’t know what

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  of the most interesting and fun lectures I've ever had at MIT. As a ... best quotes from lecture. Shout out the 9.00 group chat for all of these ... you want to take a sip of coffee, you know not only what the cup looks

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  the time is nigh for a “what is ankita doing this semester?!?!” post ... swept away by my next assignment before i even have the chance to reflect ... s u m i n g[/annotation] my days for the past couple weeks  

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  The last time that we blogged about our academics was in June. We had ... and don’t have time to (since it’s kind of long), the gist is we were ... stuff (by switching to CMS). At the end of that post, we concluded that

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  really big blog post but it'll take some more time, and in the interim I ... a future blog post, but the classes were definitely the hardest they ... Everbridge to work for them in the fall as a part-time software engineering

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  events!!!! But first I want to give you the scoop about how gay things are ... the first and oldest lgbtq+ club on campus! I’m like half involved (um yeah...that’s the most apt way to put it haha), and we do a bunch of cool

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  that some helpful hackers had the delivery drones already warmed up for ... ;         A helpful hacker forwarded the text of the letter contained in the tubes, which I've embedded below.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  CPW event tomorrow, and then I went to Meet the Bloggers, in which I met ... is on the interwebz rather than IRL. Tomorrow, I am going to be at the ... of event. The pre-frosh are all very exciting, and I enjoy being

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  suit. And my toothbrush. Ugh. Well today I spend the second night in my ... carefully select survey on a stratified sampling of the population of MIT ... . So when you're cutting down on the things you're bringing, make sure to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  things to love about the MIT student community, and one of them is that we are all teachers – whether it’s working and learning together in the ... the many other (see #17) ways to teach,* you are most definitely coming

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  incredibly difficult in the face of a three midterm week but these simple steps will make the experience that much more bearable. Step 1: Eat Properly How not to do it. (A dinner from last summer) This is probably the one

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  am currently at Logan Airport, wishing my flight weren't delayed. The ... called 'To the Deferred' - and I want to now add to the words expressed in ... with friends. In the end, I didn't get a nomination spot - and for about

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011