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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  ? me either I just googled "hard math") To fulfill this, you're required ... I know what you're thinking, "Whoa, two posts in two days? How can I ... class this year is 21M.030, or as you'd want to tell your grandmother

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  minutes away. Getting to MIT is a “commute” now. The bus chugs through the ... -house activity: I have to “cook” some days. You’ll be surprised how much one can ... . They invite you to their offices to discuss your papers. It’s bizarrely

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  House, had a holiday dinner on Saturday night! (We're supposed to have a ... answer and provides hints if the student does not know how to approach the ... :30 PM on Sunday. One of the biggest drawbacks to this system is that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  really well. How am I supposed to play music like this? Come on!   ... people in your community are ok with this new addition to the family and get ready to catch the organ! [caption id="attachment_45482" align

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  Here is what Google Calendar has to say about my first two months at ... post about being busy. In essence: deciding how to spend my time here ... to get work done. I found that the best test of whether I really

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  out how to condense your life into 100 words or less), I'm assuming you're ... desperate attempt to see an online grade, a college decision, or how many ... 't know how to use my camera.) And although I had a lot of fun sitting with

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  't offered admission, you're just as amazing. I regret that we won't be able to ... . And now, with the congratulations out of the way, it's time to get to ... calculus. You'll enjoy your time here more if you get a full experience

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  essentially allows you to see how well you did–if your walls are even, if the ... ’t actually get to pick up my pieces for another month or so, depending on the ... , sat right next to St. Mary’s stop on the green line, across the street

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  Today I will tell you how to get into MIT. You get into MIT by ... getting concussions) and (2) surviving on a diet consisting of only broccoli ... tests and post your observations if you happen to have a pair of Avatar 3D

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  . Basically, we’re trying to push the upper limits of size on automated ... you’re trying to print something huge, you can’t have a regular printer ... , there can be multiple ways to get to the same point, and you have to be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  good way to expose yourself to different teaching styles, get off campus ... Harvard Bridge is pretty harsh, so the buses and trains are the way to get ... worth your money. I urge you all, when deciding where to go to school, to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  how does grad school admissions work? Do you need to get straight As all ... campus, since I don't know how often I'd like to grab a meal on campus and ... on your question to Denise Gray in the Housing Office, and this was her

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  in on your advisor at any time to discuss classes, grad school ... exactly with it on the classes needed to get there. Students who are ... 's tough to get good outdoor flying weather in New England on a consistent

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  How to have dinner with your Professor and have it paid for by the UA!

  

  and 2-5 friends can ask any of your professors out for a feast, to any ... isn't that bad. So therefore your outing will be inherently great. "HOW ... dinner with your organic chemistry professor-- which can be sponsored by

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  , returning to my dorm, and sleeping, but a desire to commit to the events on my ... Undergraduate Education at Sloan. i was connected to him in my first week on ... will take an eternity to contemplate which ice cream flavor to get. sure

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  (maybe - in order to digress, don't you have to be on topic in the first ... have to drive a long way to get to anything. This was the first time ... how many folks turned out relative to the population density. Wyoming

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  - hello, fellow kids. Are you as stuck on what to write your college essays ... get started on them. That doesn’t mean that they weren’t hard to write ... you who are now in college and used Google Docs to write your essays, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  application tracking. How can i get to know when it has arrived? Can you suggest ... are better able to demonstrate it on an application than others. How do ... Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred ... matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to ... easily to the strangers i pass on my way home. it's finally warm enough

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  didn’t enjoy my other classes (I’ve been known to offer to take on other ... is just, well, FUN. After spending the semester learning how to use my ... working on four different projects, meant to simulate working in the real

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012