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• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  meant to understand this in the first place," and, honestly, I stand by ... time I have to actually make this decision.   I have a friend ... The class average on the first [annotation note="Intro to Algorithms

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  at MIT...and surrounded by my friends. I attribute this to general ... doesn't cut it for my social battery anymore, so I make an active effort to message and video call different groups of people. Part of it might

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  desks, we decided to make our own. This was a rather ambitious undertaking ... want to do, so we commited to making something nice. We found a lumber ... membership activation), we cut our losses and just had it shipped by freight to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  portfolio make reasonable sense to be reviewed by faculty and staff experts at ... the comment section below. To tide you over before questions come in, I ... designed to help the admissions committee get to know you as a full person

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  managed to make MIT feel like home.   [caption id="attachment_45255 ... A collaborative post by guest blogger Jessica Quaye '20 and Caroline ... feeling when someone is explaining something to you multiple times, but you

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  left, not that i should've expected a place like mit to magically make me ... one if i had to write a literary analysis on my blog posts, i'd talk ... my situation, and feeling like it's my choices that brought me to where

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  burns agricultural waste to make charcoal, which is an inexpensive way to ... week starts on Monday, December 17. There are two standard responses to a stressful situation like this: fight or flight. The alternative is to combine

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

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  took my bike down to the aquarium and watched the sunrise alone by the ... make its bread. I have unlimited respect for anybody who managed to pass ... -out day, make a train reservation for 6 AM, and then go to 6 flags until

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  .012 problem set to see if I could make some sense of it. I was happy to see they ... heading home to sleep, and by the time I got the door to my dorm open my cat ... wrapped up in my blanket, with JP licks curled up next to me. There was a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  ...cuddling with his laptop. I'm not kidding. Okay, now I'm going to make a huge ... . I swear. But then I figured out how to make money off of it. See, I ... there anyway I can make a random donation of like $4.17 to the financial

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  down a pinterest-boarding, wishlist-making, room-blue-printing spiral. By ... — our return expedited by promises to help our floor (Burton One!) run ... IKEA, resolved to finish The Double by the next day. [caption id

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  blah.) Since I know a lot of people will be needing to make a college ... (supposed to be) studying for a 9.24 (Diseases of the Nervous System) test ... really feeling all that enthusiastic about studying. Plus, I had to go back

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  B1ner Cribs come see 10+ rooms on Burton 1

  

  [/annotation] by Jess. K '10. A few things have changed -- postcard-sized posters are in vogue, and we're not allowed to paint the walls anymore, but we ... -one-rs, get it"]b1ners[/annotation] dropping by. Without further ado, here are

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  +/- 1 years old and decided to make a space-themed board game. Here's a ... I set to work." *Accompanied by a drawing of what I assume was meant ... ." Me: "but I spent half the day doing it wrong, so now I need to make up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  weekend than by taking an 18-hour train ride down to the French Riviera? Now, it doesn't usually take 18 hours by train to get to the French Riviera ... named after Nike, the god of victory. So, according to the German work

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  -ego brain is good at its job, which is to make emergency short-term decisions ... : (image courtesy of xkcd) Don't listen to PANIC MODE brain. It doesn't make ... shooting. PANIC MODE brain might step in to make some rash change

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  Ramsay for that tip. beating your eggs too early tends to make them a bit ... In my last post, I mentioned that I came to MIT never having cooked ... people asked me to elaborate about what non-meal-plan life is like. So

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  to be done. By contrast - but keeping the military analogy - here at ... it) because we really like and care about students and want to make ... -driven world, the easiest metric by which to assess the success of admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates from Admissions The latest from the home office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  

  or otherwise, if there is anything we can do to help you make your ... 'm in Moorestown, NJ, talking to students from South Jersey and Philadelphia. On our way to the venue, we saw a rainbow (just a single rainbow

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Important Information about your Financial Aid Application Track your status on MyMIT

  

  logging in to MyMIT. Students who have completed their applications by ... because we’ll be in committee making decisions about Regular Action applicants and the comments will be closed. But we did want you to know a few

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 4, 2014