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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  , remembering that I (and that we all) have the capacity for both bravery and joy ... ) the fact that I was admitted for who I am. Plus a whole lot of luck. I didn’t refine my short answers for hours or give them to a second party

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  reach of seats by the window. I wrote for a while. I thought of Anis ... , ideas for blog posts and essays, and I save them for later. I stow away ... (once a week, not for credit) called Ceramica Botanica, and here's what I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  pretty easy, set an alarm for 24 hours before your flight and make sure you know what it's for.   Step 2 - Understanding Your Options and ... 's not terrible. The leg room is abysmal for tall people but at least you

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  my friends and I started looking for an externship (a short internship ... hard, and nobody (openly) judges me for lying down in front of the ...  fit models who are brand standards for different garment sizing. There's even

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  for now, I’d like to share three pieces of advice. These three pieces of ... “Study hard” or “Eat your broccoli.” As I prepared to leave home for MIT ... think its a good way to start, but there's no substitute for just going

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  algorithm for getting into MIT. Hopefully these general guidelines can help ... /11/11 was the most universally auspicious time for me to contact my ... disorder. So this step may not be for everyone, but it definitely caused

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  , seeming strange or feeling too uncomfortable? For example, like this. Or ... Radio way back when? For you prefrosh who've signed up for Terrascope or for those of you that will eventually sign up, it's a class you can take

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  , curiosity, and persistence for it. I'd be remiss if I didn't give them a shoutout on the blogs here - so thanks for everything, guys! You might also ... met a few of the friends, my entourage for the night, in front of the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  , which I didn’t realize because I accidentally pre-registered for 7 ... set the stage for a positive next two years at MIT. 18.06: Linear ... class is a prerequisite for almost everything else I want to take

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  really grateful. For everything. After having lived abroad for 7 years ... that have been supplying water for the bath for thousands of years (my ... at David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. When I saw

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  coded a ray caster for 6.837, the computer graphics class that has been ... behaviors for different types of light sources, cameras, and objects. There ... logged out of the Athena machine I'd tied my existence to for the entire

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  considering a jar of peanut butter a meal. Yes, it's time for final exams. And ... 's a place for you. That is why I don't think it's redundant to add ... . (Thanks Sylvia '14 for the cake!) and a surprising number of uses for

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Architecture students Are you interested in designing abroad?

  

  me set my goals for my final year as an MIT undergraduate. It also ... school. Finally, it established a better understanding for me between ... complexes, this Paris-based firm is best known for their design of the

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  of dirty laundry. I print out my p-sets for the week. While I’m at it I print out past exams for my next three organic chemistry and genetics ... Thursdays are almost completely empty. My p-sets are due Friday. For the first

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  amazing things happening on campus. Nevertheless, my love for the blogs and ... classes at MIT. Despite the fact that I've only been here for a couple days ... been internalized. They grow on you. (For those of you curious, in order

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  from the masses purely for comic relief. But what drives us bloggers and ... through our scientifically rigorous work, for the sole purpose of clearing ... they were about the Institvte. That's still true for me, although I wasn

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  away at problem sets, preparing for exams, and pulling all-nighters had finally moved from the present to the past. But, for some reason, this wasn ... until commencement. Unfortunately, those were three weeks for my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  building for using such a cheesy html gimmick in a reputable post. But trust ... to move out. For Next House, residents that weren't graduating had to ... little dejected. It must've gotten Stockholm syndrome from being at MIT for

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  bigger!): Not pictured: The wake for my recently-lost composure Couple ... IT IS IMPORTANTYes. That's MIT tip number one: when studying for long ... together his Engineer-like creativity and crafted eight fields for us to fire

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  sophomore slump for college students i.e. performance drops compared to ... : non-studio) life for a while…and she said something like, Why don’t you ... suitemates have joked about, for instance, saying hi/bye to me for a week. At

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010