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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pre-Orientation Begins Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest!

  

  photo topics: Moving into your room & getting to know your roommate ... begins on Sunday, but for half of the class, they are already getting to ... great opportunity to get to know a few dozen classmates well, before

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  , leave your books behind to talk to an actual face every now and then. It ... to an organized, clutter-free space is a huge boost to your mood ... that you have to blog, think that you get to blog." I still remember my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “Hala’s Escape from Groundhog Day” season 18 episode 98

  

  feels like a time loop if you let it. Sure, it’s satisfying to finish your ... , it’s hard to notice you’re in it - and even harder to break out of it ... get over a C-, your transcript will simply show a P and if you get less

  • by Hala K. '29
  • October 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  to my dad so I could get a second opinion on what I’d written. The ... I’d had it hammered into my head by a counselor or a website that I wouldn’t be able to get in, just because you are never fully prepared to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  to get practical experience in a software company before even having to ... teammates about whatever I couldn’t figure out on my own. I started to get ... our QA team to integrate my code into our project. By the end of the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  doing is trying to do is get through it. Survive, focus on your studies ... complete-- but we get by as best as we can. This is what makes society and ... : Don’t Break It. Song: Back to Black, by Amy Winehouse While the last

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  practice the new material. And, at the end of the semester, we get to write ... class doesn’t get too abstract and is directly applicable to real life ... by Noam Chomsky to an arts exhibition—the class actually encourages you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  , this blog is certainly not going to satisfy that curiosity. (You’re in ... machine, provided to me by MIT. When I’m not reading apps, I do a fair ... journal from Famosísima, a shop in Mexico City, gifted to me by Emily, a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  ’s getting close to the 9am deadline and the pset drop boxes are two buildings ... personal website! Its Google pagerank is nonexistent because I quickly threw ... new grad they’ve ever hired, so when I found out they were going to have

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  ESG! 13. You really get to know your teachers on a more personal level ... experience to get to know your fellow ESGers and to see if teaching is for you ... , allow you to avoid the negative sides of GIRs and go through your whole

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  to anyone to please be kind to your friends when they try and learn new ... . I feel like I'm so close to getting this part done, and even though it ... times a week instead of four to get rid of extra steam. Aiden, Jordan

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  Google Collab, and get to work on my UROP. [carousel image1="115765" image ... while they’re there. In short, you get to build a strong foundation in ... to rely on throughout your time at MIT. I couldn't recommend it enough

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  "there's so much going on that you're bound to find something that will get ... to bind adiponectin." By identifying and isolating those special cells ... the Whitehead UROP by emailing professors, but warns that this method

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  homepage. I’d encourage you all to watch it if you’re interested--it’s pretty ... this method, even if your teacher is terrible and you don’t understand ... designed to be doable--and this is by no means a bad thing. It's important to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  for me to get. You don’t want your arm bent too much or too little since ... test after white belt, you have to get “checked-off” by people or ... ’t attack me. In the fall, I would routinely get spammed by the Sport

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  finish up a website that would be super useful to kids stuck at home right ... track from 1st to 6th grade. I tried to get back into it last summer in LA, but I was LITERALLY allergic to the air pollution and could not get very

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  like me right now. I've found that it's useful to identify your power ... ensures that I'll be able to get to everything I want to cover, and it oddly ... 't bring my Source of Truth to the exam, I like to use the quiz-recall method

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  [annotation note="Joe, if you’re reading this, Fatema asked me to ask you to ... now that I’ve taken the class, I get to [annotation note="Turns out FPGA ... questions, it helps to understand how the computer/phone/smart fridge you’re

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  might want to be bloggers to SHARE YOUR SPECIAL TALENTS What does it ... , or deciding how to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in class, and so forth. The day-to-day experience of your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  me, “I’m happy you’re getting rejections! They’re important to show you ... application to Google, Microsoft and Facebook, all which have freshman ... ). Okay, let’s rewind to why I REALLY wanted to intern with Google and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019