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• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  deadline just to make sure I wouldn't change my mind. I put myself in a pod ... to make.   March to June I'll admit it - when we first got ... a gap semester to work full-time at the Media Lab. I did, however

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your ... confidence you have the minimum proficiency in a course to successfully pass ... has impacted your performance in a class, or a decision to take a course
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  make things from scratch. During IAP we went on a snow day adventure to ... out to be so bad, and I had a good reason: I was in Israel. Going to ... great time to bond with teammates and get some sun in the middle of a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Does the Khan Academy offer practice SATs?

  , and tailored feedback offered by the popular nonprofit learning website ... , on the Khan Academy website.  
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  tired (which MIT is prone to make you feel). There's a character in ... I started writing blogposts when I came to MIT. I wanted to be like a ... coffee did make me a more well-rounded person. Anyways. So what I did, was

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

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  make my 13-minute (!) layover and get on a train to Lancaster, PA. If I ... are making a 40-minute detour to stop by F and M and pick me up. From ... recklessly complaining, but here goes: Today I had a to-do list of 23 things to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  studying, switching from mechanical engineering to a completely different ... came to MIT, my plan was to study EECS, start a video game company, and go make millions. Today, I work in a mass spectrometry lab studying

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  Python>Java is TRUE) I love python, it's so easy to read and it makes a ... physics, grade a few papers, and in exchange I get to say I helped teach a ... their made out of is a cool party trick (at least at the parties I go to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the first thing I had to do was ... which classes you are able to take as a freshman. I took the test in June ... . I was nervous that I messed up (maybe I was required to take a CI

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  ’s really hard for me; it seems really Meta to me to not only make a body of ... like a dividing point, to make the space seem smaller, and for people to ... Exhibition”, and apparently there’s a WikiHow article called “WikiHow: How to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  coolest. thing. ever. A whole month or more to just do whatever you want ... of MIT to set up. I understand that a lot of people get a lot out of ... you decide to use your IAP to just exist, you feel like a stupid, weak

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  a little since I tend to talk about glass-blowing and truffle-making ... find coding events on campus, whether self-learning or learning to make a ... office to catch up on non-reading work and meetings and I spied a bunch of

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  Facebook asking how to deal with stress, and got a massive influx of ... 're too tired to work, but have to work, take a 15-30 minute, 90-120 minute ... /or insomnia: take a walk outside on a sunny morning to help reset your circadian

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Decisions

  

  confidence that you will be admitted to several great colleges, and a letter ... you again get a choice: where do you want to go? Remember that no matter ... We've come to the time of year when many of you readers will find out

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  ." "Exposing the body [of a canoe] to heat makes the shape of the canoe permanent ... MIT's independent living groups. It's a "mixed house," home to an ... each dish, I had enough on my plate to feed all the chickens for a month

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  adopt exponential notation to denote level of friendship. I.e. A "friend ... of a "friend^2", etc. That would make things so much easier, for example: "I was going to go to that convention with my friend, but a lot of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  towards yourself to make a curve. Then you do that again, in larger scale, to make a hook. Repeat that on the other side, so you have two hooks ... ://www.youtube.com/shorts/CKvS2euf7_0 At the end of the year, I decided I wanted to make a tavern

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

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

  

  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 ... for context) For the first half of this class, we had to take a

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  make a quick collage? You can use existing images from magazines and your ... theory classes because I was forced to consider what I was going to make of ... or experience to add to this five-year “collage” I was making as an

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  Arts Hacking Arts is a festival and hackathon that aims to create new ... between all the reality TV and cooking show. Then you come across a channel that catches your attention. A brilliantly parodied logo appears on the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014