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• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  completely different person, working with his uncle to start a tea shop and ... way of showing the audience how painful it is to change on a deep ... privacy. I wanted to publicize my taking a break from my responsibilities

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  deadline, I encourage you to spend a lot of introspective time. This doesn ... essays. This means to spend a lot of time thinking about why you do the ... -step submission. But it also isn’t an obstacle to get over to a destination- it’s a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  to work since I'd stayed up late, vibed for a few hours, then had to ... often a matter of willpower and self-control. I always say I'm going to ... steps. Get up. Grab a change of clothes. Wait for the shower to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  biked to D-Lab to weld. I’d started a new project two weeks before finals ... guy who I’d taught how to weld, a nice student, good at taking criticism ... artisans spoke mainly to him. Three stalls down, I remembered that this was a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  be bloggers to share your garbage with the world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgNBgyziNrA ... REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool new ... student culture. We pay you for this. It's a pretty good gig to be honest

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned ... disciplined exuberance to post at least twice a month on average. We may ask you to help advise creative projects in the office and serve as a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  ego and stubbornness and not because I actually wanted to. I didn't do a ... helped me with classes and who I admired a lot but never had the courage to ... 's language, that is to say, learn a little bit about the terms he uses quite

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  comments to a post in some older blog y'all don't know about, when I was so ... torn apart my house trying to find a crowbar so I could break into my ... My introduction to most of the MIT Admissions staff - aside from my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  to cook breakfast or lunch each day unless i bring a sack breakfast and ... 's paint night or a movie or going to Harvard to eat and window shop or just a bike ride. To summarize, simply become a reasonably well

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  orange books that tell you everything from how to do a 360 with your car to how to escape from a well. Today's lesson? How to Foil a UFO Abduction ... better and ready to apply to MIT now? BananAPPEAL quandries: 1) Is MIT a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  nights Time kept a rhythm, while we scraped along Now we start to peer ... Dial Gold." So due to my mother's frugality, I bought a huge package of ... ) Since this blog isn't going to be "substantial," here's a really cool

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  Here's one less thing to worry about when applying to MIT: Students apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the ... asks students to list their "course of interest" only, and the choice
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Sign of Things to Come If Paul Revere went to MIT, he'd say, "The psets are coming. The psets are…

  

  I guess summer is coming to a close. My schedule was posted on WebSIS. :-( [In all honesty, I'm actually really looking forward to this semester ... . 2.ThA - Undergraduate Thesis How to write your thesis 101 2.A35

  • by Bryan
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  INT to the INT to the IN(s)T i3 Videos! woo!

  

  Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) (n.) - a DVD you will ... ), after you choose to matriculate. The DVD is a compilation of student ... Paul would have a lot to say about this as well). But anywhoo, I want to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  guide curious students to available services. As Laura, a blogger alum ... of LGBT Services and a strong advocate of the campaign, talked to me ... we talked more, I was surprised to find that Abigail's position, once a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2022 judge our music taste (the 5th installment)

  

  year of blogging with another blogger wrapped. these have become a consistent tradition, and if I had to guess, they'll continue for a while ... always been on top. slay fatima did a lot of listening to TSwift this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 8, 2022
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Does MIT offer a pre-med program?

  -related professions are encouraged to complete a prehealth registration meeting with ... other health profession schools each year. MIT doesn't offer a premed or prehealth major; rather, students can pursue a variety of majors and take
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  I ever invite you to a potluck.” Shortly after- K: Your salad right ... , preheated an oven to the wrong temperature in Fahrenheit but exactly the right temperature in Kelvin (on accident), took a partial derivative, tossed up a pan

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I AM SO BUSY

  

  But I still went downtown to fetch a fresh fruit eclair. (Sorry for shouting.) Someone asked what I'm doing for spring break. I'm going to ... Sweden to Abisko. Should be a lot of fun, and I promise to post pictures

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  and stayed out until sun up dancing to mbalax music - a type of modern ... music scene from world-famous Senegalese drummers. I'm failing at a way to ... This week in blog entries posted by people who no longer go to MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012