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• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  Class of 2010: I hope you're all excited about your new temporary ... , thanks to free nights and weekends, I actually get to keep in close contact ... you're going to be living in Burton Conner, MacGregor, or anywhere else

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  relatively easy years of high school seem to fly by; SAT’s, ACT’s, TGIF’s, BYOB ... answers excitedly on their way back to Baker House (i didn’t get any of ... ’s just pass/no record, another girl thinks to herself after getting her

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• 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 ... ’ll be able to generate new ideas to play off of. i’m pretty sure we weren ... pressure on myself to get things right the first time and i get frustrated

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

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  might have underestimated the extent to which I would be challenged by my ... if you’re lucky, while heading to a dining hall for lunch one normal ... . There, I came across two Stephen King books I had been trying to get for a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  for Campus Preview Weekend via your MyMIT account by March 31st. If ... your plans to stay on the waitlist rather than return the postcard ... thread to write new formulas and solve the puzzle from a variety of

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  can opener—you just can’t get anywhere with it! “Well duh,” you say. You’re ... , who I'll get to later. So clearly, you can tell Adam’s been ... rather how to solve "problems caused by the language". Sorry, that was too

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  students cry en masse, Your confidence, you will come to lament." It could ... , exist only to tool*. *to tool: verb. When used by MIT students, means "to ... will let me be your queen Let me succeed, and bring on 5.13. Ode to 9

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  easy to measure my life at MIT by courseload units, GPA, hours slept ... finish revising my novel by October, so we could send my manuscript out to ... time better (thanks, iCalendar) and how to use a mop (apparently you're

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  our GRT told him how to talk to the counseling deans so he could get his ... prospective GRT candidates, and I think we get to interview all of them this ... that the fact that I go to MIT leads to almost immediate stereotyping by

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  just highlight your essay and hit Ctrl+Shift+C to get a word count ... takes some effort at the start to sign up and get your pages set up, but ... in browser or download the app to your computer. It's free, and you can

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  "]simple![/annotation] So, here’s a quick step by step guide on how I managed to finish my ... . Conceptualizing FIRST THINGS FIRST, YOU NEED TO HAVE AN IDEA. 1. Create your ... it feels more official. 3. Draw your storyboards. Get an idea of what

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  .01 forces you to really get what's going on, a quick scouring of the formula ... hoped to get a deeper understanding of metals so that we could further ... finally take the time to walk to the art store and get the PSET notebook I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  embroidery. She showed me an embroidery kit she had and encouraged me to get ... was able to talk to and learn from a whole new group of people. To my ... adorable and beautiful things produced by MIT students. 1. Storytime Way back

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  absolutely hate it when something gets spoiled for me (similar to most people ... , on to the TOP TEN: 10. LOST - ABC (only a few more weeks until the new ... to Get Into More, but Haven't Been Able to Yet - Scrubs - Dexter

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  bed, exhausted. i get myself up around 9 pm to shower. around 11:30 pm ... short talks to each other about our projects and getting peer feedback. i ... together where we get to see yet another lovely TA. all of my TAs are so

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  academic departments, or courses, which are often referred to by their course ... spend your extra time getting your Pirate Certificate instead! (Just ... Here's one less thing to worry about when applying to MIT: Students
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  sort it (so you would return 2, 3, 4, 14, 17,19), your ability to do this ... influenced by the majority votes. I don’t intend to delve into my specific and ... ice-cream company and you’re trying to figure out if you should roll out

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  Sadoway’s students working on a new process to make steel with oxygen ... … I did snag a hot dog at Theta Delt (thank you for your kindness to a ... something to be said for being able to get from Mass Ave to Kendall Square

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  longer get intimidated by the grocery store to figure out what to eat and I ... basically everything I wanted and more. Let's get into it. NEW YORK [carousel ... love eating. SO MUCH. And there's so much variety here and I get to try

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT ... , Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, Maine. Soon after, we'll hit California ... applicant "competitive," how we make decisions on which students to admit. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010