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• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  . Plan to partition your room evenly if you have a roommate. If you take a ... compiled a packing list for students here, to be used with caution. Some things I’ve found helpful. Pack: -- a memento for your shelf or wall

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  time we also just go get food together or go to the movies, but all in ... . However, on Saturday I felt that I had enough time to both get some psets ... exam I would have to hop on getting the psets that I had fallen behind on

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  Here, we get the minimal pair tama na and tahan na. This is a bit hard to ... get away soon From the memorized scene I want to get away soon Notice ... idiomatic, often meaning "soon". And makawala means "to get away", formed from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  get to the root of the lesson and build up. But with topics like ... this class is shaped entirely by your fellow classmates. I’m fortunate to ... ’d done more. But I’m learning to accept that what will need to get done or

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  have contributed to your community, whether in your family, the classroom ... 't regret it. If you're applying to college this year, my best advice is to ... process is an opportunity to reflect upon the last several years of your

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  my time in school, and he told me about his efforts to get his friends ... in the nation. But in less than one month, the MIT community gets to ... by Cody C. '14 When it comes to politics, there is one argument that

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  arguments of the form you Should have a kid to do your part in continuing the ... first three weeks each felt blissfully long, as if i’d found a way to ... has more to do with an inability to retrieve information than a problem

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  the best differentiation between different body parts. In order to get ... my time on weekday nights has been dedicated to studying scientific ... -and-coding heaving schedules I’m used to. In a way, it’s really nice—I’m being

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  So in Burton-Conner, you're allowed to paint your room under several fairly reasonable restrictions, and my roommate and I decided to take full ... , it's necessary to record your observations, so I whipped out some

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings

  

  a wonderful MIT Alum. Be sure to check the listing on your My ... applications, I’m excited to start meeting all of you! Kim was kind enough to let me guest post on her blog to let you know about some exciting

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action this year I'm so impressed with our applicants

  

  your applications for early action. Truly. I consider it a privilege to read your essays, to learn about your cultural heritage and family ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  password that you use to log into your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online ... been an honor to learn so much about your lives. May Pi, Tau, and peace

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  interviewed to be the Sound Designer for the Musical Theater Guild's (MTG ... think about it-—how does one attach a microphone to a stripper without it looking too conspicuous? When you're not wearing anything in

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  to break free from your jaw it itches unbelievably bad. Nothing helps ... up to greet your eager fingers. Smooth as a freshly shaved face, your ... and pay your respects to all that the beard has given you. A moment of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  -order coherence). We expect to get [latex]g^{(2)}(0) = 0[/latex] because that ... was able to see these phenomena with my own two eyes, in the flesh, because I was the one to perform the experiments! I performed all these

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  felt that I had stories to tell and no means with which to tell them ... forcing myself to learn to write longform. Poetry taught me how to capture ... storytelling ability I felt I lacked. As I began writing plays, I struggled to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  any man would do in this situation. It was time to get me some cookies ... , though. Long in advance, my father had planned to come up to MIT that same weekend for the Alumni Leadership Conference, but the storm seemed to have

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  chooses a few promising ideas and starts working frantically to get a model ... have to build a full working prototype of your product in the span of a ... blog entries that I completely lost the motivation to finish as soon as I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  the one before it, so there was pressure to get a working solution every ... something my mom would say to me, but she never actually called me Margaret ... myself I would never become. What happened to make me neglect my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  … I did snag a hot dog at Theta Delt (thank you for your kindness to a ... something to be said for being able to get from Mass Ave to Kendall Square ... Barton Rogers’ alma mater (10 points to anyone who knows without

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008