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• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  how to fail. If you're going to be a practicing scientist or engineer, you need to learn how to fall flat on your face. Despite the best ... need to learn how to do is fail, but not let failure get you down. You

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  something else (use it as leverage to get a smartphone from your parents: "mom ... 'll be well on your way. 4) Find things to do in small blocks of time. Did ... see how that applies. But it IS possible to balance it all, and in fact

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  brainstorming: First, we design how this calculator is going to work, Then ... . When humans are hungry, they need food in order to get back to being in ... ! You’re about to see an FSM that you’re very familiar with but that was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  weeks back, and it was a great book -- put it on your summer reading list! ... & Humanistic Studies, appeared on The Colbert Report. Certainly Prof ... Fiction, but an appearance on Colbert is always... interesting. For those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions, Round Two What's going on in this picture?! Another installment of our new little game.

  

  Occasionally I'll show you a picture and give you some clues to see if you can figure out what's going on in the scene. Welcome to Round ... contains many secrets 2) A large noteboard 3) Daniel's index finger, which

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  quizzes you need to take: on college choices, your type of bae, and ... changed my life. Every so often I google them to see what they're up to. I have yet to be disappointed.  7. Some of them didn't get admitted to MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  you do what you want (or have) to do. It's the sort of thing where you're only kept awake enough not to miss your stop, yet tired enough to make you want to immediately go to bed when you get there. It's the sort of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  goes on. Getting all three to work together wasn’t going to be a cakewalk ... ” of multi-disciplinary engineers was tasked with trying to get three ... project, but realized that getting different personalities to work together

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  getting much worse to slightly better and I went to MIT Medical urgent care ... 're working on devising a federal bill to regulate smart city transportation ... our relationship to ecology, agriculture, and the land we live on. Our

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  on how to pluralize things like "June" and "July"? I had to stop myself ... : How I express disapproval to this day.   Summers 1 & 2 ... from a CIA case officer to a guy doing research on parisitic infections

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  by knowing what I have to look forward to and how I could get there ... important to me saying, "Get your shit together Caroline." Getting my shit ... This is not a post about budgeting, because no one likes to hear how

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  lot of people. look how easy it is to get signed up! Three steps, that ... , like the ability to tell someone their video on YouTube of a baby hamster ... supposed to be afraid of a website that has black text on a white background

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  already now is definitely the time to get a new one on Amazon.com if your ... week of orientation, I had to get out my cell phone all the time to give ... might want to look into getting a new area code or a different carrier

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  be a lesson to all of you – use your Google calendars!) and thus missed ... will be hundreds of activities going on throughout your stay. There is ... Bridge Reception to be held on April 12, 2013 from 6:30pm-8:00pm in W20-301. Current

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  due at 11:59, and midterms looming. I can’t choose to wake up on a day ... feels like a time loop if you let it. Sure, it’s satisfying to finish your ... scheduled on my Google Calendar - they’re the spontaneous dinners with friends

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

  Online Decisions = YES Some great news.

  

  to check your decision online, you will need to have registered for a MyMIT account and you will need to know your username and password ... you wish to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  -October. I originally had planned to go to Santa Monica for an on-site ... opportunity to interview on-site at another company in the Bay Area in two days ... to end so soon. Underclassmen me couldn't wait to get to graduate. Some

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  folks are super-excited to help answer your questions as you transition to ... circles on campus, you may become known by your username, so choose wisely ... to check if your username is already taken: 1) put the username into

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  ridden on an airplane? During the Holiday Season? Without your Super ... back to your interviews and repeat, "We need to take excellent care of ... and made the connection, we decided to give your seat away... Oops, I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  participate can get a copy of a small slip of paper, about the size of an index card, to place on their office door. The stack of "you are welcome here ... people who went through the trouble to stick one of these cards on their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009