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• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  you're dead set on having a desktop and wouldn't work with anything less ... , everyday student. If you're going to be doing basic typing, Mathematica ... you should avoid a Mac. That's not to say you can't have one, but your

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  plan. On December 20th, I went to Raymond's birthday party with Emma ... . Anyway, detour ending now.] After this I'm hopefully going to get some of ... notes in LaTeX because my friends have been getting on my case for not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  lost it before you could get it down on paper or somewhere else you ... and adding your own signature to the bottom and carefully putting the ... reason I get an inordinate amount of pleasure from it. If you're a Redditor

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  purposefully how to on my own. I was always very reflective and sought out people ... head to focus on and bring out my emotions and try to understand them. And so I have to do something that spends my thoughts focused on people

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  great chance to get outside and watch some fire athleticism on Roberts and ... always count on mitwlax for someone to study with, get hype with, crash out ... away from academics and work. How is your season going so far? Sydney

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  contributor's copy of How to Get Around MIT (frosh should use it, it's a good ... Before we get to the subject of this entry, we have a question! Xin ... starts, you act out your role based on the information in your packet

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  got your dream and get admitted, in which case you ROCK. You're on top ... 'm excited to be going home so I can finally get some sleep - between learning ... . And if you can handle putting all of your life-changing moments down on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  /social sciences person in high school (thought that I would go on to study some ... and make sure to get outside during the nice days. There are some ... opportunities, and you have everything that convinced me to put a ring on it.

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder ... the early universe to him. If that didn’t blow your mind, maybe this ... get some exercise. I was horrified at how quickly I became out of breath

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  are trying to get back on our game, fulfill our club mandate, and have ... performing groups we have, and how big of a performing arts scene there is on ... that, of course, I didn't get to talk to every single performing group at

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  your benefit and doesn't contribute to your final grade. With that said though the supervisors provide reports where they predict how you'll do on ... ) Also have to orally defend your code in a short code interrogation. E

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  I couldn't figure out how to calculate the standard error of my GPA ... caffeine intake so I would get a better correlation on my graph. Oops. 2. Mike asked how much time I spend on homework each week, and if it would

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Staying Organized In which I look exhausted and talk about my notebooks

  

  life. Hopefully you're able to decipher my rambling in this video! If not, feel free to ask me questions (which I'm sure other bloggers would be happy to respond to, as well) about how we stay organized and how we

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 28, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  (where you and your advisor meet one-on-one occasionally to chat) or an ... that at MIT, unlike some other schools, you're required to meet with your ... [annotation note="Weird how the name isn't related at all to the action, I know :P

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  loves her some frappuccino, so we decided to get right back on the T and ... So, we had this great idea of going to Shakespeare on the Common, a ... , what could go wrong if we headed down to the Common to see it? On the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  application and receiving your decision is a good time to focus on family ... check your application tracking on MyMIT today. If you are missing an ... time to follow up on that and make sure we have it as soon as possible

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  February updates Midyear grades and more.

  

  that we need to make a decision on your case. The Application Tracking ... calling your school to get them. For other students whose grades have been ... processing of midyear grades, calling to check on the status of your midyear

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  disheartening watching my friends easily get solutions to problems it takes me ... my academics that much, so here's some brief insight on how things have ... meticulously calculating each of my grades to see what I need on each assignment

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  you have to tell your whole life story just to get any help from support ... get out of my classes immensely, on both the technical and artistic ... myself to this semester are demanding, especially as I have taken on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  some regularity, actually. You'll need to either get your dad to fill out ... . If you do use your new teachers, I would give them a bit of time to get to know you before asking them to write on your behalf; in this case

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006