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• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  I went on to Princeton Review, searched for liberal arts colleges ... "employed", this is essentially what went through many of your minds on Pi Day ... culture, the ethos just make sense to me. I picked my first college on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  , remember that you don’t have to know what to do on your own; the people ... to make it to classes on time, my new friends would leave me behind ... noodle I shift my weight to dodge the blow... but then I’m on the ground. I

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  ! That's CRAZY! If you're going to be taking the General Institute ... ...whatever) just wait until you get to campus. There are always upperclassmen trying to sell books. Ask around your dorm, spam the email lists, and you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. ET. To view the live stream, click on this link ... up for classes. I'm co-teaching an a first-year advising seminar on ... them signed up for a new discovery subject being offered by Course 7

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  relative to your beginning knowledge base and your overall effort within the ... knowledge base. By focusing on LΔ we can really zero in on YOUR individual growth. The LΔ allows us to focus on the process, not just the outcome

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  liveblog I intended it to be, but I'll throw up the first location on my ... there, so I'm going to move on now and take some pictures of some other ... then makes you want to beat your head against the wall. The Pythagorean

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  rusty old bike is 19 mph; I wonder how fast I'd be able to go on a sleek ... romanticize rain when I'm indoors listening to the drumming of droplets on my ... land on the vastness of the Charles all at once. It's hard to see in the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  't recommend taking it as a program to pad your MIT application (something I get ... drop more blocks on your opponent's screen. It looks something like this ... that image came up in my google search and I decided to use it). The

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  learn on your own at home.[/annotation] I want to reassure you that we ... disruptions, where we remind students to focus first "on taking care of yourself ... time to be concerned about building your college admissions resume, or

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  isn't getting bigger, then for your life to improve you have to take it ... established companies and other startups. Far better is to think of a new idea ... Startups survive on momentum.  How do you maintain momentum when you're

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  occasion to get paid just to sit back and have fun, so I definitely seized the opportunity. I had to leave early to get to campus to film the ... all different majors have gone on to become associate consultants and

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  , you will get a sense of how much things cost. If you’re new to buying ... ’s much easier to carry groceries on your back than in your arms. When ... 's blog Food Parsed on August 31, 2015. Buying your own groceries can be

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  problems and allow me to load new songs on the fly. This was indeed the ... idea of using an oscilloscope to render a video game is not new. Many ... .2060 is that we get to build the circuits and code that power these

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  . It’s always neat to explain your work to people who know so much more ... to your professors while surrounded by burbling chocolate fountains and ... to hang out with students on a Saturday night! I think it says volumes

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  folks are super-excited to help answer your questions as you transition to ... circles on campus, you may become known by your username, so choose wisely ... to check if your username is already taken: 1) put the username into

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  pretense about the amount of work that still had to be done on the trip, I ... under wraps until the end of the semester, it's safe to say that we're on track to have a gorgeous Google Glass app. :) And for

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  help you get a new perspective on the application process. I don't expect ... relevant on your application, but take extra care to emphasize the aspects of ... , on college applications, you're supposed to brag about yourself without

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  corner. You’re excited about getting to finally be your own person.You can’t wait to throw your cap up high at graduation. But you’re also a tad bit sad. You’re going to miss your family. And your friends. And home cooked

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  yourself in different worlds and try to predict the outcome based on the ... more details. You learn from your mistakes and get better at making ... optimized. Sometimes, things happen that are meant to make your story

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  . For me, getting on the airplane early just means having to sit on the ... uncomfortable couches on which to spend the night (ps. MAD doesn’t fare much ... day (on a free ticket though – redeemed through my miles). I had to go

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009