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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  According to my favorite website ever, StatCounter, somebody from Australia found this site by Googling the phrase "what happens when you ... get there. It seems to me that the villain should be frozen prior to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  network, pleading with Google to tell you what your species is. You learn to ... was nothing to lose in trying. Lesson 1. Google is awesome. I searched ... rainforest! Unfortunately, I also had to get there, and tickets to Brazil are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 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

  

  many converging deadlines. If you’re looking to get an extension, you can ... thinking like, "man, this is amazing, I can feel myself getting smarter by the second! I feel like I’m finally starting to get math." But then, the

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

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  saying - they need you to help get them through this process. Here is where it gets counterintuitive for you; to be effective you must say more by ... months talking to your offspring about the college process. I must say that

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  : you're likely to get a response more quickly, because current MIT ... grade to a B on the condition that I get a B or higher by the end of the ... surprise yourself by how much you're able to take on. That said, if you

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

  my year in music, volume 2 just another excuse for me to talk about how much i love music tracking software

  

  ; we took some of them to get Green Building hot chocolate the weekend ... long time Let's Not Shit Ourselves (to Love and to be Loved) by Bright ... playlist to commemorate that concert Crush by Cigarettes After Sex

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  research has to offer. By the April of my freshman year, I declared 6-9 as my ... lol” kind of way, since one of the first things I had to get used to at ... this gif a lot to get it to upload :'([/caption] junior spring  Come

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  . Getting to that fraternity or sorority party. Visiting your friends in ... the beginning of the year, so it's perfectly feasible to get an inexpensive bike here. It also makes it easier to get to really nice places over

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  working to make an awesome video), am doing NextACT (a play put on by Next ... are you prefrosh? Long time no talk, although some of you got to enjoy ... visit from the MIT police before our party's ultimate demise). I write to

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

  It’s that time of the year again If you want to do a UROP this semester, now is the time to contact…

  

  serious responsibility. The UROP website reminds you to consider your ... works out to $9.00/hour, when you are funded by the UROP office. Need to ... on November 2, 2006. This is the easiest way to get a UROP, most people

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  bound to your decision. To change your mind (by the end of sophomore year ... interests with others helps to get your thoughts and priorities in order. In ... major by the end of their freshman year. If you're really, really unsure

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  , Googled the answer, and gone back to our work. But instead, the conversation ... card deck that just lives on the lounge table, waiting to catch the eye of unsuspecting psetters to distract them for hours. Sometimes we

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  you updated when there's more to be said. Maybe about this time you're ... here writing this entry. Summers are a great time to focus your energies ... -changing experience. It is a myth that you must do a summer program to get into college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  .  Even better, there is no standardized system for determining who gets to ... ’t have to be this dramatic, but it generally helps your case to state your ... you’ve just spent hours curating. don’t get too attached to them.

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  meeting for my UROP (the turkey one) just to get free apple pie 2. discussed the finer points of Food Network with Alicia '06, who actually gets to ... was actually pretty cool, though. Through this website, we got to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  to Physics. She also had to state that her book had been reviewed by a ... get involved, but the following Romantic period was not as welcoming to ... think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  that you get your clothes wet and muddy, and by the time you go home and ... rankings by those sketchy university ranking websites. I guess a lot of ... satisfaction in learning the tools by which to approach these questions. Like

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  methods to get small amounts of data from very large amounts, while my ... 'm Rachel, possibly more frequently referred to by my Athena username, rfong ... At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2010 Roll Call It's May 1st -- welcome to MIT!

  

  past year getting to know each other, and I'm glad we'll have to next four years together, too. (I hope you'll stop by 3-107 from time to time ... sometimes, you want to be a little subtle in your MIT pride, while still

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  which the objective is to lower a stick propped up by the index fingers of ... side note, really take the time to appreciate your parents while you're ... not a good idea to staple any part of your college application, actually

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007