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• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  an hour. We were recently able to get it to work, though, after about a ... . Smooth and calm. It was roughly 5 hours to get from NYC to Boston, much of ... Providence. It was a bit hectic once I got to Boston because of all my luggage

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  , but also in the knowledge tested on exams.  You can't expect to skate by ... , MISTI, career fairs - MIT offers a lot of resources, but you have to take ... have a sense of what direction you want to go in, but don't let that wall

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogging About Blogging CAPTAIN FAFSA!

  

  comfortable a cape would be if it had to pass through your mouth. Probably not ... something important to say at the end of this entry. Here's a quick ... 't as easy as changing a global setting, meaning he had to go through each

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  in the issue were then chosen by a process similar to what we used for ... [annotation note="generally, a spread refers to two facing pages of a magazine ... theme for the current issue and puts out a call for students to submit

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

  ! There’s still a chance to get in if you come by all sections of the class ... to get acclimated to the new environment, find a fun community or club ... sure you ask the instructor for permission to get into a new class. Note

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship for future engineers Chance to win $2,000

  

  ? Want to be an engineer? Then consider applying for the 2008 Future ... Chapter website (ashraeboston.org). They are awarding 14 scholarships in the ... ://ashraeboston.org/scholarship-info.html You can also apply for this scholarship if you're a first or second year

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  fish. Next time, though. By then, it was getting close to 2 in the ... humor too, however, since I got an A anyway. In case you didn't care to ... Friday happened to be a Saturday. Let me restate this so that profundity

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... .com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... school to college transition less stressful and frenzied. If you are a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three from MIT! Three MIT Young Futurists

  

  . If you want to learn a little more about Dorian, check out his website! ______________________________ On a personal note, I must say that in addition to being super ... Yesterday morning I was quite surprised and VERY excited to see a

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  visited prior to this summer -- received a huge boost from 3D printing. As ... Facebook feed to find a ring that can replace my CharlieCard, an RFID ... by SUTD freshmen to tap into restricted areas around their campus

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  by joining a student community, most notably greek life, the entire ... anything remotely close to "greek life", or in my case, a sorority, in ... new group. To make a long story short (one for a whole other blog post

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  know that if you get a skeleton to kill a creeper, it drops a music disc? jenny: yep! i tried getting some, but i got blown up by a creeper for the ... My roommates and I haven’t had an outing for a while, so we went to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  to other local colleges! There is a blog section of our website where ... to get really busy. But we went on the annual New York trip a few weeks ... an Art Scholar is you get to take SAA classes at a discounted price (it

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  many as a romcom character gets to decide her life. Five days. This ... . I’d sworn to stick to math. Cannot imagine why. It took a while to get ... not to inundate this post with a couple thousand extra words. I could

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  computer died. Or the time it took multiple hours to get a simple piece of ... research project...or the time I spent literally ten hours trying to get a ... indestructible, and according to the Internet a solid development machine. It had

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when ... to look pretty appealing. And besides, I wanted to keep computing as a ... computer went dormant, replaced by a new enthusiasm for travel. I had built

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , according to Prof Mahajan, the rule of thumb is: if you get a quadratic ... If you've been to a high school math class recently, you probably ... collaborated with MIT professors to improve their curricula and published a book

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

  Color by Numbers

  

  student would: we improvied. By which I mean we measured a shelf, rounded it off to 3 feet, and then used the shelf like a super-ruler. No, I ... lot of fun, especially after we decided to make a quick stop at Star

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  before you come to MIT and get screwed over by the tsunami of work that is ... . AND you also get to take the swim test early and take a PE (there was ... you can get to MIT significantly before September. Well, the choices are

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  , and try to get homework done. There are a few distractions at home - see ... , played with her for a bit, and went back to sleep for a few hours. At 9am ... , where I had a line of duties waiting for me. My first duty was to take

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014