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• Blog / About Decisions

  Anticipation a little something to keep you company

  

  whatever it is that you're feeling, you know that there is only one way to ... that you are feeling right now. As you get through the day, I'd like to remind you to listen to the world around you. To the rhythm in your

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  from going to the types of social events that are just barely getting ... , so this is my favorite way to order food. In addition to getting to ... Friday nights are great. Assuming you’re not in one of those classes

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  , you tilt your phone to get the little jumper dude to jump on platforms ... TA responded, "oh you're supposed to draw one yourself." We learned ... the course staff), so it was simply faster to get help from a classmate

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  mention get to know the halls of our new dorm, so we decided to visit each ... a guy offers to install Athena on your computer, he's hitting on you. If he offers to install Debian on your computer, he's really hitting on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: Parts 1 and 2 for Early and Regular Action applicants

  

  Breathe… If you have submitted your application, go to 1. If you are planning to submit your application, go to 2. If you’re writing your college ... your essays, cut down your extracurricular list to the top five

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  opportunities for me to get my work in one of these. I argued that even something ... idea, and we’ll be making plans in the next few weeks to get it done ... step is when things get technical; last Friday, we were asked to compile

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  apply your excellent educations and skills to making global changes. ... The MIT Public Service Center provides fellowships for students to travel around the world to allow them apply their talent and knowledge

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  , your EC wants to get to know you as a person so he/she can add another ... hometown area. There's no need to bike/fly/hitchhike to Boston for your ... will waive your interview. It is your responsibility to check your My

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  examples to illustrate the benefits of getting to the solution before ... need to get it through the limited working/short-term memory. There, we ... , according to Prof Mahajan, the rule of thumb is: if you get a quadratic

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  and launched our website and our annual CTF puzzles and managed to get ... schoolers (called Blueprint, and if you’re a high-schooler you’re eligible to ... battling wordpress to get this out so it's a little over for me"]I’m crunched

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  important for you to get your Calc GIR out of the way as soon as possible ... blog would never get written - so here goes. I'm also going to stray ... the way to junior fall. Oh - and take 5.111 (or 5.112!) if you're

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  the interior spaces around you. If you’re lucky enough to have access ... your coffee as often as possible, and try to keep the plants alive if ... you’re interested, you can subscribe and you may get an email someday

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  ="600"] they had some actual Commodore 64 computers there!!! I need to get ... requirements for getting licensed as an architect, which is what 1) allows you to ... and 3) allows you to start your own firm. Turns out, the process is way

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  ways. You have no idea what you're about to put yourself through - and in ... than an hour to get there from the fifth station. It was probably the ... weather started to get really, really bad. Difficult to stand up, let alone

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  I always seem to know I’m back at MIT when I can vaguely hear my alarm go off at 6am. A lot of people seem to think I’m crazy for waking up what seems ridiculously early for MIT students to go and exercise for 2

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  and pseting, I get an email reminding me to sign up for Career Fair and ... respond, I procrastinate on making a new resume by getting back to psetting ... need, and get back to studying for 18.02 and making a note sheet that I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  , except now we get to use FPGAs that are more than 10x as powerful as the ... ="aligncenter" width="768"] Even Google's AI gets it wrong! However, I should note that ... I'm a crusty senior now, so I have no fun and sparkly adventures to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  enough to get in before you checked online, and your friends and family all ... to your interests. And share those! They're probably awesome! -Sleep ... it 5.03 these days) ever get shortened to "Inorgo"? I hope not, because

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  classes ended on Thursday, it was time to get serious about studying for ... (or EECS). His website - ThePlaz.com - also has a wiki, and on this wiki ... to Learn at MIT. It's about - surprise! - learning to learn in the MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  can i get into MIT" My best advice to all of you is to read this website ... , USA). Be sure to include your full name and date of birth ... mates. To find out who your interviewer is, log on to MyMIT (if you are a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006