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• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  once a week, I get to eat with the brothers whenever I want. Being the ... $4133, which averages to just under $10 per meal. The Full 19 is a little ... are still more than a Chipotle burrito ($7.50 after tax at Kendall). To

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  unconventional.  You don't have to look any further than how I parent to really get ... to grandma, and a certain jolly old elf that lives at the North Pole ... help us to determine if a student is a good match for MIT like creativity

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Action deadline is almost here The only thing scarier than October 31st is Nov 1st (just kidding, no need to…

  

  that you wish to change from EA to RA. Financial Aid is a different ... get too stressed out! Go out with your friends. Give out candy to cute ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 31, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  spray to help it release and I dipped the balloons multiple times to get a ... There is a class here at MIT called How to Design (Almost) Anything ... semester to create an object and then turn the object into a vessel. For a

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cambridge Traditions and 5 Course Meals

  

  to a really nice dinner with the fellows (mostly professors) of the ... a chance to chat with students and professors in our major about ... . We only get a 3 course meal on a daily basis. Haha. No joke! But that

  • by Cambridge
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  it finally became time to find a new solution. My solution for the ... when I don't have to worry about the legibility of my notes when I get ... It rains a lot in Boston. There’s not much more you can say about

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP a wholesome college experience

  

  worth trying anyway: best to get comfortable on campus before the ... spin class, and I was butthurt, but also determined to take a formal ... tries, and had to swim more—not a great strategy. But the adrenaline only

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Think Happy Thoughts D-Lab Memories >> Graphing With Matlab

  

  attack by swiping down. So a bull market is one in which the market is moving up and a bear market is one in which it's moving down! But back to ... -Lab is. This one's a nice overview. I'm too sleepy to add much to them at

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  able to get above a C in this class. Normally I'd just tell myself that C ... ."]MEng[/annotation] later, so things got a bit trickier there. Unfortunately, you have to get ... 's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside reminding me to brush my teeth; on the bathroom mirror a note would remind me ... even now, as a grown man, when I go home I'm liable to wake up buried

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  . Last week, I attended a fascinating xTalk by Professor Shailendra Raj ... , traveling to Taxila, where roads and civilizations come together. A professor ... intimidated by the great scholar. Just last week the king had stood up to honor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  Facebook group that you get to join when you're a student here that's called ... competition! Thanks! One of the biggest culture shocks coming to MIT for me, a ... 's like killing a friend person 1:.... ***** Girl to group of friends: "You

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

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  orientation and are usually able to get their own show within a few weeks of ... responding to the rare complaint from a listener"]programming co ... some media to glue together in the event that a virtual CPW [annotation

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  in the US with a research or innovation idea, we encourage you to apply ... 11/6 from 4-5pm EST! Tune in to get your burning questions answered or ... was a ~little~ hard to see. Around that time I first heard of neural

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  get up earlier in the morning or skip a class or two to have the time to ... -front about it as well. Without further ado, here is a recipe to make yourself ... getting an education from MIT is like drinking from a firehose

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  happened, I was still a freshman, desperately trying to get on my feet. In ... ."]acapella[/annotation] groups, only to receive a callback from just one—the Asymptones. At the ... first concert. I auditioned for a solo in [annotation note='"Sucker", by

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  it was all a joke. Mr. Lazar decided to attend Cornell University this ... a different campus. Although they are often overshadowed by the sheer ... difficult it is to get into top colleges, weird, funny, poignant, and even

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is ... find a few ways to pass time. I wrote. I wrote a lot. I taught ... during Christmas. We got to stay near a beach, and watched the waves pound

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  I started writing blogposts when I came to MIT. I wanted to be like a ... MIT Blogger now etc. I literally get paid to contribute to my own ... three papers I wrote I couldn't finish the cup, but by the fourth I was a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  orienteering — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use science, technology ... 2028. Getting to “meet” so many capable, compassionate students through

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2024