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  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  bills, doing chores, taking care of myself, etc.—was a little overwhelming ... I’ll have a bad ending. If I need help, all I have to do is ask ... A thank you to all the supportive faculty & staff at the ’Tute

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  because it’s too far, or because there’s only a break of two weeks before ... . I spent a lot of the past two weeks writing. I made three blog posts ... Informatics, and I started working on a new competition math handout. By all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  back inside for a home-cooked meal, seems so long ago. In reality, it has ... completely until you’re here in a dorm, in a town you’ve only been to during CPW (the preview weekend in April), and on your own doing adult things

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  they don't tell you is that doing so is sometimes not so much like a ... first steps on MIT domain as a prefrosh, I actually spent a lot more time ... 're a brand new man, and the brand new you is confident, composed, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  This post is about the classes I'm taking - and is a case in xkcd ... *-duh-nar-done”) kicked off our first lecture with a demonstration. He placed a glass next ... shattered with a bang. *In contrast to "ood", an alien species from Doctor

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  keep your eyes peeled for what's important to you in a college, and do ... Preview Weekend (CPW), I figured it would be worthwhile to spend a little time helping to set expectations for the weekend. Because CPW is such a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  Song" was originally derived from the song "A Son of a Gambolier" by my childhood friend Charles Ives. Hokay, so I still do exist and I still do blog once in a while. I've been feeling kind of floaty these past few weeks

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  write a paper based on the research I’ve been doing for the past year and ... , so maybe I'm not a mad scientist. But, when people ask me where I am ... my response. I am taking the following: 7.02- Biology Lab- A notorious

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  and a half hours in the pouring rain to lose a field hockey game. Bleh ... her read my books. We have a symbiotic relationship.) In other news, I ... least 3:30 in the morning doing calculus. Thank you, April's dad! Anyway

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  into oil. How do you turn a turkey into oil? Well, Chester, according to Changing World Technologies, you take a turkey, cut off all the meat and ... was intentional. This week Andy and I are just doing a residence time

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  Employer: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology As a consequence of my ... , Long Island, New York, a small town with a tourism and maritime economy. From Kindergarten through 8th grade, I attended a small Catholic school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  do quite a bit. We have great tutoring programs, we have a summer ... take the exams. That could be because they can't find a way to do so ... applying to college. Do homeschoolers have a harder time getting into MIT? If

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  from watching. For example, do you know how to make a roux? Or properly ... ’t do that with a diet that’s 90% fried chicken!” Either way, there is a ... Being a college student in a dorm means finally having to decide how

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  , “as a rule, not you or anyone except for me may do X, or else I will ... Economics is a weird kind of science. Like biologists or chemists ... the Human - a totally different beast with a whole different set of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  This post has been rattling around my brain for a few weeks now, like ... empty."]a rock inside an empty tin can.[/annotation] For the accepted, I offer my congratulations, and a warm welcome to the MIT community. For the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  interrupted by herdlike groups of tourists each morning, I thought it would be a ... you enough of the basics that you don't look like a total tourist when ... like a tourist" guide is not to stand around like a moo cow in front of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  drove home at 3:03pm and made a mental plan of everything I wanted to do ... be a blogger. while i read it now and see [annotation note="emphasis on ... a more authentic state (even if i cringe reading it now).  i

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  You might have heard of inktober, a recent phenomenon where artists draw a picture for a different prompt every day in October. This year, one of my friends from hall, Lisa T. '20, and I decided to do "poemtober

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  : Anonymous asked: What classes do freshmen take? Although there is a certain ... better this semester than last (*grin*), so that's a nice feeling. All that's left from last semester is a bunch of pictures that I'm about to share

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  literature. I'm a sucker for reading, I guess. I do know that 24.900 (Intro to ... in "beach," so I changed the spelling. Hmm. I really do need a new blog ... . Plus, there's a lot of work. Take last week, for example. I was up until

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006