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  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  -dead, "I get better every single day..." My roommates and I decided to join ... requires some wrangling to run it on your computer, but woohoo! First real ... on the submission website. "Affirmations" has been a running joke

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  your hall to get things done. Two people working on a problem set ... supposed to be a priority, somewhere up there with getting good grades and ... -- whatever ... and when they get here, they feel an immense need to release

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  phases of my life. a while back, i was waiting in atlas to get my ID card ... , writing. it took me a bunch of bad drafts to get here (nobody wants to see ... future you want. i’m still getting used to that quite frankly. i have to

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  milled them out of wood, and who were open sourcing their designs to get ... On Friday I flew out to California to visit my friend Greg. Greg is ... Earth Solar. I've been out to Palo Alto / San Mateo in the past, but never

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  pointed at a post on Piazza (a website where students and professors get to ... Autobiography), or giving several presentations to a classroom full of your peers ... from conception to development to iterative improvement to final product

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  [annotation note="Joe, if you’re reading this, Fatema asked me to ask you to ... now that I’ve taken the class, I get to [annotation note="Turns out FPGA ... questions, it helps to understand how the computer/phone/smart fridge you’re

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  . . ." Since getting to MIT I've been a part of several riots and a flash mob ... subway. The ruse is to pretend as if nothing is afoot, as if you're simply ... : This is when it started to get really exciting, especially when we saw

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  just can’t seem to get your essays the way you want them to be. Hear my ... research. I miss going to college websites and reading through all of their ... I couldn’t get myself to write.  I miss signing up for college campus

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  and the idea is that you’re just supposed to follow your stream of ... pressure on myself to get things right the first time and i get frustrated ... work with you’re forced to be more particular about each one i think i

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Etiquette Workshop: The Keys to Painless Networking Jodi Smith taught the UPOPers the keys to painless networking!

  

  appropriate if you're introducing yourself to a veterinarian or fellow dog lover. 5. Do your homework! If you're going to an event sponsored by a ... exit, even if your conversation was less than pleasant. 10. Get business

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  't get to do a Questions Omnibus before I left, but I promise to do one ... . Nominally, the purpose of the trip is to be in Malaysia for a (Malay) friend's wedding, but while you're over there, you might as well do some tourism, no

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  -generation... If both your parents went to MIT... If you intend to major in the ... rose to, “If you have fears about your ability to handle the workload ... fraternities, sororities and Independent Living Groups tried to get the MIT

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  , you had to get in line early for ring sales to get a subsidy. Therefore, Cara L. and I woke up at 6:30 am on a Saturday to get in line for 10 am ... best way to get this message across." I'll update if there is more news

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  And the winners are… 2010 Blogger results!

  

  Admissions staff plan to keep pushing the technology behind the website, giving ... who to invite into the elite ranks. Unfortunately that would be a lie ... , and one large pizza, we were able to narrow our list to the magic number

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 27, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  scares me, frankly. I don't want to get too excited and think that I ... me get up and get excited to tackle the day. So here have been some of ... Is King. I've been meaning to get back into reading, as many of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  my team to get some criticism. Now, it wasn't like they were my boss or ... get better at writing. But sometimes I wonder if it encourages me to ... motivation to do anything that'll get criticized ever. Maybe that's why I can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Stud/Fac Dinners Genius idea to get free dinner with MIT geniuses

  

  of Your Friends How to Avoid Being Set Up How to Pin a Boutonniere What to do if you get an ugly corsage How to Treat a Pimple How to Properly Apply Cologne How to Save Your Date from Choking How to Buy Someone

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  to end so soon. Underclassmen me couldn't wait to get to graduate. Some ... the first week of October, but didn't get to it, so I'll continue the ... e s t h e t i c. 🌴[/caption]   It was nice to get off of

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  (ECs) in these cities, and more. Getting to travel the country, to come ... publications and websites. During the Admissions season, it is difficult to focus ... from the intensity of admitting the freshman class to get the big picture

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  This guest post on LGBT life at MIT comes to us from Cory Hernandez ... . For more information, be sure to check out other posts from regular ... doing the Housing Lottery—reading and watching i3s, visiting dorm websites

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011