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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.

  

  day at work. Due to a lovely and thick stacks of nondisclosure ... ' toys, are then sent to packaging so that they have a solid model to mold ... , back to the first line of the post. I can steer myself any direction I

  • by Snively '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  Extended Plan. Or, if you are on just the Basic Plan, they need to send your ... same thing. I don't care what plan you're on, just go to Urgent Care ... for a single student. Last August, my family elected to not put me on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  't ready to live on my own; plus I had marching band commitments, which is ... supposed to write a little cover letter/essay about your qualifications ... process. I commuted about half an hour each day on the Metro to Rockville

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  to be on-location in New York City with an independent movie directed ... comfort of your home. you can even bring it on to the airplane without ... On Monday, I got to see a pacemaker insertion surgery, eat lunch in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  architecture/woodworking/crafts nerd, I knew we had to go on a tour; I spent the ... how to actually cut the wood that way. And then I gave up on doing the ... trying to run REX install new flooring in my room meet my floor

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  INT to the INT to the IN(s)T i3 Videos! woo!

  

  receive with your next big mailing (scheduled to be sent out early May ... around on the Net, if you're curious. :) We shall begin, of course, with i ... -acclaimed International House. < more shameless plug> Video bought to you by yours

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  see your name in print.     On Friday I flew to DC for a ... summer is a key time for us to travel, work on dormant projects, and take ... food poisoning or stomach bug that manifest on the flight over, so had to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  :25 to be exact. Nonetheless, lady luck was NOT on my side Thursday morning ... nice to meet you!!! Add me on facebook ;) I also met Ameesh, a high ... expected, I sighed with relief and took a LONG nap on my flight from DFW to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  period of time, so I relied on things like xoxo.sh to meet new students and ... relationships can be attributed to me moving from doing classes on [annotation ... , and I feel like I have more independence to pursue things I enjoy on my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  the number of classes is your time-to-pee. A time-to-pee close to 1 indicates a loosely-packed schedule; the lower your time-to-pee, the tighter ... after 7.013 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. That gives me a fairly low time-to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  Indiana. But these are just a few so be sure to check the listing on your ... other new MIT admits I want to let you know about some exciting ... to the class of 2018. If there’s an event in your area, you should

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  ; listen to it on the Whitney website (scroll down)) “...located in the ... Last weekend, I took a short solo trip up to New York to see the ... to New York I went. But first, what exactly is the biennial? From

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  awesome. In content, anyway. The author tends to ramble on a bit, and seems ... (which is descended from Latin), you're down to simply "año," and you need ... 'm sure you can con a new friend into teaching you how to read music. =)

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  in my opinion. I'm sure we all fall victim to surrendering minutes and hours to the Internet - aka procrastination. But is it me or are we all getting desensitized to the negative connotation of procrastination so that

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application now available Apply now at MyMIT.

  

  ability to track the different parts of your application. On your My ... , you will not be able to create your new MyMIT account and begin your ... for freshman admission to MIT. Your MyMIT page includes interview

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  to stare at the Great Dome, still in disbelief that you’re actually ... , and failure. Fun. IT’S MIT. As new fears kept piling on, I started ... during your flight,” she said. I read it somewhere over New York, holding

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  , and trophies to pull. Quickly it becomes apparent that the most efficient way to score points is to do laps on the extremely steep 60 degree ... early on to use my iPhone and iPad to control my robots via OSC, a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  : you're likely to get a response more quickly, because current MIT ... surprise yourself by how much you're able to take on. That said, if you ... 's really difficult to give you advice on your situation, because I haven

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  holes in your glorious new project. I practiced on my prototype pieces ... the fact that your lamp must turn on -- and throughout the course we ... on. I quickly ran into an issue: having too few design constraints

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  reserving some time in your day to paint. ... A couple of weeks ago, Chris Peterson tried to describe my life as ... 've concocted so far. 1 box of questionable purpose (If you're wondering, the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012