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• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  living alone, if you are not on the meal plan you have to make your own ... you can enjoy that!). No one can move from living in a house to on their ... always technically a pset that could be worked on or a test the next week

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  on the internet, I was surprised in the last couple years to find an ... student "studyblrs" on tumblr, and I applaud them for being very specific ... , but I have to rest well on weekends. If there is a test the next day

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  initiatives within both MIT and the broader community. On Monday, WAE hosted ... Red Bull staff, but aerobatics is evaluated by a panel of judges on the basis of creativity, aesthetics, performance, and so on. 12 national

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  realized that I never wrote about mine. Mine began on whim. I sent the following e-mail to my mom on December 2, 2012: “So, I spontaneously applied ... students on the subjects of leadership and service through a series of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  classes on whim, then figuring out retrospectively what my concentration ... concentration done (we put four classes on the list; three are required.) I then ... applications (AHHH!!!!!), my various research projects (more on those later

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  can effectively tack on $12 to the price of your restaurant meal. This ... food.  Rice takes longer and is harder to get right on the stovetop ... , I cook everything on high-ish heat, because I'm too impatient to wait

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  schedule. Remarkably I’ve started feeling rested on seven or eight hours of ... find them on my bedroom floor I’m usually quite awake. Under my loft I ... queen sized airbed on a lofted bed frame and a shelving unit, which

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  a number of events and fundraisers on campus to raise the $65,000 we ... understood what was going on around me. All I knew was that there was a thing ... diffuse gastric cancer (HDGC). I clicked on one, then another, then another

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes ... on the telephone; chess players find a strong move in a single glance ... the regularities? The answer here depends on the professionals

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  and projects abroad. I’ve had the chance to go on four major trips ... Henley Women’s Regatta in Henley-on-Thames, England. Although we didn ... teams have had to cancel their plans. Nonetheless, being on a varsity team

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  wrote our responses so that you can get several points-of-view on the same ... with some professors (who I would go on to take classes from) was also ... my interview with my MIT EC. And I loved how Mystery Hunt was going on

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  vehicle. Its official color was plum (ask me sometime about being hit on by ... on the back. Still, it got 30+ MPG, its 5spd stick shift was fun to drive, and I'd planned on driving it until I couldn't drive it any more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  . (Yes, all of them. I tried.) Slush blooms like grey wildflowers on ... path by factoring large integers on a quantum computer in polynomial time ... Random Hall and into pika on Monday. The purest of all unimportant joys

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  on time as I always have been. Sorry about that. So. I graduated. And ... also traditional colorful explanations about why the beaver "sits" on the ... forward to, almost from the moment they first slip the ring on their finger

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  sleeping man, who had slumped over and is now sprawled out on the ground ... at Peace." Having thus decreed by the Professor, Oasis embarked on an ... complex (ha), so here goes: When I was on my way back from Central America

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  step of the problem once again, and walked out with a smile on her face ... clubs taught by scientists from NIST and the NIH on the weekends ... personalizing medicine. It was incredible to go from designing a device on the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  working on p-sets. Personally, I'd like classtime to be geared more towards ... coming out on top by figuring out how to, I don't know, fix the boat, I'm not entirely convinced that it'd be smooth sailing from then on. What I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  'T KNOW! I NEED SOME TIME TO THINK! So here are a few of my thoughts on the ... based on grad students I've talked to, but I'm sure there are other ... Biological Engineering, even without overloading on courses in your undergrad

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  supposed to equal one hour per week spent on the class. 100 units is absurd ... being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on ... just said that we all love a challenge), but there's never sabotage on a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  tend to have study breaks and go on trips mostly with your floor. Because ... becoming great friends with their neighbors early on in their MIT experience ... nagging scientific questions above? Battle on, reader. 1. Do people swim

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005