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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  to buckle down and get seriously serious about my education. When ... to in-class concept questions. That’s OK, Joel, your grade is high ... - great! - but know what you're getting yourself into, and don't deceive

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  how to get your own radio show? Here's your chance! You'll also be able ... narrow my decision down to two schools, and there is no better way to get a ... want to do when you get here. With so many events to choose from, it

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  against hippies, really.Every Architecture student at MIT gets introduced to ... ! Adjacent to the woodshop and full of machinery for your metalworking needs. Because you know you're going to build something crazy someday.3. I know

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  went absolutely nuts over, and I'm so glad to finally have enough time to blog about it. If, for some reason, you don't like following links to ... 's as good a measure as any of geekiness, at least with respect to the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  for a different reason, whether it was to get somewhere or just to ... without me would look like, unable to face the thought of never getting ... have spent the past two years getting to know each other, forming groups

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  had a lot worse happen to me. And now, for your moment of zen, a (young ...   Last night, Jon Stewart announced his plans to leave ... family because we hadn't yet been able to move into our new home. My world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What do you mean by “MIT Speak”?

  .03, which is 5-0-7, for 6-2. At MIT, all of your friends would understand exactly what you're saying. (You have to enter "MIT Code" in the ask field to get an answer.)
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  absentee ballot today. It was exciting.) That should be enough to get you to ... most epic Google Doc ever to grace the face of the earth, containing ... in chromosome 5, leading to an extension of the circadian period from

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  MIT, companies ranging from the likes of Facebook and Google to smaller companies ... You're flipping through the TV channels, bored out of your mind ... that catches your attention. A brilliantly parodied logo appears on the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  . It goes out to Meder! Solve it to understand why...) Today was a ... officers are expected not to come into the office (where there can be ... at Diesel Cafe. Reading is kind of like studying: everyone needs to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  —partly because i thought i was too late to the game to get good at it, and partly ... freshman seminar; we go to cool places like Google and MIT Open Learning and ... 's applied to real-world problems. also, we get free dinner before every

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  works. To directly answer your question: we hope that you'll get mostly As ... removing-your-belt stunt ?" Hmm... perhaps you're referring to my story about ... website to find out the latest information about my application. But every

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  school - whether you get into MIT will ultimately come down to luck, so you're ... at really getting to know somebody. And you're right that there isn't a ... .  Sometimes, people send me: Links to fun websites or videos, "since you're

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  some things that you hear before you come to MIT, and even while you're ... Sleep. Eat. Exercise. It's easy to let your health slip, especially when ... not going to be able to work your best anyways. So if you're tired, don

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  following sports once I got to college. Or maybe I just enjoy getting a peek ... . But in the last month, since coming back to MIT from Thanksgiving break ... while you’re on a plane, yet so fast when you’re taking a final exam and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  TO WRITE THEM. Seriously. Why? Because the end of the semester has me totally and completed hosed. I can't even believe I'm taking 15 minutes to ... a taste of things to come. Item 1: How hosed am I? According to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.

  

  number 4: This is where it starts to get really good. I'm hoping the MIT ... structure in action (video) We also get to play with higher-tech sorts of ... website shows coverage of everything from neurotransmitters to political

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 2 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Google Maps for an hour or so. Met up with Lorelle and headed to the BSU ... Another insane (in a good way) day! Got to MIT early; checked in with my fellow admissions peeps. Not bound to the Reg Desk today, I made the

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  and turn off your desperate-student-trying-to-get-employed persona and ... weird to just keep wearing some of these shirts around in your post ... had used (who I highly recommend if you also want to get a memory quilt

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  discovered that if you’re ever in a place you think you’re not supposed to be ... trying to get card access for the last week. Self-identified ladies, this ... student, I’d like to get more invested in activism on and outside campus, so

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015