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• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  are you prefrosh? Long time no talk, although some of you got to enjoy ... a 7x7x7 V-cube (better than a Rubik's Cube). Of course, the bus to NYC ... rapidly dwindling supply of cash. What is an MIT student to do? Work! This

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  seemed to pay me any attention at all (this was a recurring theme of my ... , mom     One of the best ways to learn is to teach, both ... first came to MIT I started teaching through SPLASH, one component of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  the evening. If I force myself to stay up longer than that, though, I ... week - the day I had planned to grind out the near-entirety of my 18.100B ... over-caffeinate and force myself to stay up another night. Before coming

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  classroom to an exciting real-world project. The purpose of the competition is to assume the position of a manufacturing firm that has just been ... marketing presentation to the judges, where they critique every aspect of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  . Of course, I also had to pay to get into the park; however, since Ling, Erica, and Simon were smart enough to buy a family pack of season passes ... along to Wham! a lot. Then we went to a gas station where they ran out of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  , I already have something to look forward to for all four of them. Let ... parents speak fluently, I am able to get the gist of their conversation ... (the proper formation of sentences) of Afrikaans is comparable to that of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  interest in design: “His Christmas gift to me would be one day of his time ... understood the beauty of things made by hand. I came to realize that what was ... : break students up into groups of around five, teach them how to use

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  attribute this to other than weird Google stuff. Of course, these are ... asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you missed it, here's an index of their entries: 50 Reflections by Ben Jones

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  . I made it reasonably far before Google Maps decided to mess with me ... . I took a moment to evaluate my options. There were all sorts of bridges going across the river but none of them seemed to have sidewalks for

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  Freudian terror. Flash back to the real world, where school is still kind of ... stub. Me: "Hey google, show me some concrete examples of using the noisy ... equivalent class bases their curriculum on it. The omnipotent hand of Google

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  early to check the website and see if any MIT folks won. I have to be ... pharmaceuticals and of advanced plastic materials. Thanks to the Laureates ... , society and the environment. Thanks to the Nobel website for the description

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  students to get to Harvard"]1 bus.[/annotation] Just to the left of the ... -resolution picture to "318 Memorial Drive", however, takes a lot of effort. We start ... another building to the left of this one, which is labelled "MIT

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  to as Infinite 1, and every floor of the Infinite above that is indexed ... walls of the Infinite that I hadn't actually bothered to stop and read. In ... needed to be, and all of the words written on the walls of the Infinite

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  very different website. I’m so not used to it that I still drafted this ... ...) A lot of things happened to me that I am quite sure did not happen to ... the state of Massachusetts. Going to the unemployment office

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  three weeks leading up to that date poring over a complete set of ... lamentable theft of our student-given right to a winter/summer vacation, during ... stretch of studying, is to sprawl out on the sofa and settle into some good

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  far without ash sticking to the windshield of your car. there was so ... to mind is that of an exhaust pipe, sputtering and spewing smoke into ... means i’m out of my room on mondays wednesdays fridays 11 to 3:30 and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  good number of you have been!) We hope to let you know a little more ... answers to some of the most common questions we hear, and a few others that ... intended to train students as comissioned officers for the US Armed forces

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  My first two weeks of GEL kicked off to a great start. I really like ... most of MIT. I need to decide what I want out of my MIT experience. I ... . And so one of my goals this year is to work on decision making. As the

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Renewable Energy in Spain

  

  at exploring different methods of solar cell characterization and ... system into a photoluminescence imaging system to analyze the benefits of ... Vivian Dien Class of 2013 Materials Science and Engineering w/ a

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  they would do, including: Create a blacklist of banned websites comparable in its effect to the Great Firewall of China Kill websites that ... shop. However, today MITAdmissions.org is joining a number of websites

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012