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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  to do it in high school, but I was afraid I'd get homesick and wasn ... supposed to write a little cover letter/essay about your qualifications ... freshman year. It's sort of another "how to do everything wrong" story

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  to get started. But for the first time in three years I genuinely ... opportunity to preview the material, get study habits down and start college ... Interphase? According to the OME's Website "Interphase is a rigorous seven

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  -wannabes were), I need to get my 8 units the old-fashioned way: PE classes. (I was going to make a joke about how "IM sports" aren't sports you play ... the PE requirement here. If you're a varsity athlete, earning your 8

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  modifications in the first two weekends and plan to get aesthetic modifications ... one of them relates to 8.02. I’m about to change your life. *breathes in ... (radio waves) probably have transmitted this blog to whatever device you’re

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  getting your big packet in March you come to CPW and get to explore all the ... information you need to get you started, including instructions to set up your e ... , you get to choose your dorm. You rank all of the dorms in order that you

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  Mexican?” Yes – these are the perks to being over-committed. You’re never ... lucky ones get put into a folder to be re-read and noted later. (Most don ... -hour, etc...) because you never know when you're going to be surprised by

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  -or-break moment- the last chance you have to make use of your CPT before you graduate by getting an internship at a firm that would be likely to extend a ... interested in getting to know me- personally- other than my resume, or my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  noise as it gets processed in your brain). It's pretty interesting and ... best case, you could get a UROP, publish papers, make your own ... , plus I get to shoot a real gun and go bouldering. As for whether I do

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  just one more gnome game it will fix me

  

  online that go into the 10k region. Also, once my roommate managed to get a ... THE BALL AND THE GROUND IS YOUR HAND AND YOU WANT TO KEEP THE GNOME ... pace. On the other hand, mud has the power to get you stuck and almost

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  studying and go to sleep. Getting all your work done is for sure a priority ... other than work (that isn't just sleeping). Carve time out to do what you're ... 't gotten the chance to get involved with it at MIT yet. I'm on the Origa

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  Google Calendar or other similar online planning apps/websites, but we just like using physical agendas more. For one, it’s fun to buy a new one each ... plastic pocket to put in any design you want. So, I printed out one of my

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  complicated housing system ever. There's no real answer to your question. Once ... assigned to your floor, you all sit down in a big group and just work it out ... the colors around you to paint on a screen. Kids get to run around and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  If you're a regular on /r/technology, you might have seen Project ... do? From the website: Project Naptha automatically applies state ... website. It's pretty amazing. Essentially, it detects text from memes, image

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MITblogs: The Next Generation Look ma, a hack!

  

  Courtesy of the prospective Class of 2013, I am amused and happy to present eight applicants' humble homage to the MIT admissions website: mymit.info And, of course, where would be without a little help from

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  We bring the sketch to you! The internet is full of weirdness!

  

  I don't know if you've heard of this website, but there's a new ... want your body. Stranger: Yeah baby! *disconnect* Today (more ... our 60" HDTV and server, when we decided to tell the random stranger

  • by Snively '11
  • February 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  . I've got the opportunity to get an MIT grad degree in a really mind ... right time. Like Yogi Berra said: when you get to a fork in the road, sometimes you just have to take it. But what, you ask, of the website, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  ! A couple ways to check if your username is already taken: 1) put the username into the people search; 2) point your web browser to http ... ://www.mit.edu/~yourusername. A username can also get you an MIT certificate, giving you access to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  (although I did get around to reading some other books). And since I've been ... rooms! Walk around enough to get around without a map I have been to ... a club that you sink a lot of time into freshman year to get good, and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  . After all, MIT is one of those schools that you strategize to get into ... interview to mess up my application (you’re right I have been self ... to do this whole application thing or not, so you’re waiting for

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

   terrible, opened my Google calendar, saw I had nothing I desperately needed to do ... , we all have work we need to do, and the last thing you'd want is to get ... be. But I'm getting there, and I look forward to sharing [annotation

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022