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• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  [/annotation] so I was phone-less for a week or so and had to buy a new phone. 6 ... -regularly for updates on deadlines and use it to get your questions answered. Your ... -specific documents but there will be some forms that MIT asks you to fill out by

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  can't seem to do that here. I had to settle for these floating stars ... /no record was a great opportunity for me to experiment with my studying habits ... starting spring of my first year. What’s the point? 1) I get to declare a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  you get here for your pre-orientation program, you are going to check ... entered a randomized lottery to get placed in their basic required classes ... picture for you - FPOPs are a great opportunity for you to do things outside

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  (paradoxically, we will do more to get a free T-shirt than we will for the amount of cash it took to buy the T-shirt) and recruiters itching for coders ... -long vacations to these vicious battles, which are typically organized by winners

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  . (Only 23 hundredths of a year for the same time to come around already ... Stata Center, I just HAD to take a picture. I've been here for only a ... amazing. There was always something to do, and meeting new people as well as

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  I no longer have to cook for myself. I haven’t yet decided whether or ... kitchen facilities that were available in New House to come up with my own ... to my point. I no longer have to cook for myself. This semester marks

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  monitor, and I was finally compelled to clean my room so I could get a ... motivation for my project was to test if we could quickly prototype an API (a ... ." Basically, it generates text very accurately, and it's not easy to get access

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  , the sailing team goes to the College of Charleston in South Carolina for ... airport we quickly stopped at a grocery store for food and the hotel to drop off bags, then went right to the venue for an afternoon of sailing

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  fraternities, sororities and Independent Living Groups tried to get the MIT community, primarily freshmen, to know them. Always on the lookout for free ... 's integrated so well into my ongoing college experience that heading to ADPhi for

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

  Where In The World Is The Nance Effect? He returns! He returns! He returns!

  

  and experiences to share with all of you. So, lets get started ... , faculty, new and returning students are all excited by the start of the new ... . My oldest daughter is a high school junior this year, so I'll get to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  doesn't love me back. Yesterday, for example, I was trying to get a ... a slightly different permutation in order to get a nice figure for our ... get it over with. The gel ran for about two hours, then I set it up to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  getting myself to write a novel than read one. Which brings me to the next ... originally drawn for the awesome Aquil Fannis.  But I decided to take a break ... . I have one book to my left—Stephen King’s Four Past Midnight—which I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  , it's a time for residents to get together, enjoy free food, live up to ... to grab it as fast as possible and run off to another stranger's house ... slices of bacon, which was equivalent to a 6-unit course in Not Getting

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  to do laundry by myself or to know which medicine I should take for ... I had to wake up early enough to clean and prepare for their arrival ... this time, I had already been here for two months. I knew how to navigate

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Get Animated A holiday comic.

  

  A random highlight of some holidays is getting emailed the latest ... for Easter 2006: When Jen was an undergrad she wrote comics for The ... Jennifer's Comics. Jen is also a fantastic baker -- if you want to drool

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  getting them all for her, one by one, but to expedite the process, she ... may not post offered to make a Clay-themed nametag for me, featuring ... on Google image search. I hope nobody walking by can see the computer

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  One. Last Monday, I waited an hour to get tested. The testing ... weeks before this. I wait maybe three minutes. Then I get to the table ... other side of the bed, by the window, and I mention to him and Brenda that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  distill my reasons for wanting to become a physician scientist, it only made ... gastric cancer is unfortunately very difficult to detect early by endoscopy ... about HDGC and CDH1, I looked into the criteria for getting a genetic test

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  association of any sort, but thanks to ATS, I'm now Taiwanese by association ... nary a mine since bidding goodbye to the tender age of microwaved pizza ... prototyped during the Vietnam War to sharpen the reflexes of future army

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  . By the time you read this, I'll have been home for over a week - but as ... tell you something: when you get to college, change is neither slow nor ... some people...and simply doesn't for others. (Karen has more to say on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007