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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  a mini mill in your dorm at MIT? And do you get time to work on your ... a modest tool collection and working on getting a space to put an ... pain to get to) to slave away on our projects for an entire Saturday. So

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  might need more than the incredibly awesome How to Get Around MIT guide ... our medical facility on campus.  Maybe you need a checkup, or to get a ... yourself leaning on your friends.  Maybe you'll miss home, and give your

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  . If you're wondering what it's like to go to MIT, it's pretty much like ... treadmill. The treadmill just keeps going and going. You're trying to reach ... on your face or completely screw up and end up tearing apart the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  during the committee process to other individuals from your school or area ... Question #1, I'd love to get Parent Question #2 (and 3, 4... n). ... more students to MIT than others, even when a student from a nameless

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  am your spider. Don’t get me wrong, I’m also ridiculously excited to ... CPW, so I have absolutely no clue how this event’s supposed to go, even ... convinced I could never fit in. I wanted to shake your hands, give you hugs

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  it out first to get the rough shape and dimensions down and also have a preliminary design to get feedback on. [carousel image1="116775" image2 ... the 100+ pages I’ve scrawled across, so what you’re getting will just be

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  desire to rock out, so we get 6 units of credit per term - just to bang on ... , for a Christmas special on how much it'd actually cost to buy all the ... . Imagine banging on a drum with a stick. Now bang on your imaginary drum with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  's hard to imagine a simpler mechanism. And yet, to get that simple took an ... solutions to all your design criteria, and then your proposed solution is just ... your solution to a problem, pi is the ith particular subproblem, and s

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  had a large emphasis on teaching us Aristotle's Art. We learned how to ... to get started. But for the first time in three years I genuinely ... opportunity to preview the material, get study habits down and start college

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  -mid-late-semester Stress that normally [annotation note="I really need to work on my posture ... knows Stress can attest, not responding to emails makes Stress get heavier ... brass rat in January and haven't started the process to get it replaced

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  is the weekend to meet other enthusiastic hackers, push your boundaries, and realize the projects of your dreams!" Head on over to hackmit.org to register. There is a randomized lottery to get in, but if you want

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  out of your control, so it doesn’t make sense to put too much weight on ... rather explains how to avoid unnecessary suffering and how to protect your ... decide not to explain to your friend how they’re being dumb, thereby

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  The sun always seems to hover near eye level. It gets a bit ... , get about 8-9 hours of sleep every night, even at MIT. But you're ... . Depending on your subject and which year you're in, you can have anywhere from

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  the impossibly difficult scores that they give players on Broadway to ... to the singer, which is somehow impossible despite your best efforts ... different things on your research and having none of them work a surprisingly

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  separate blog about that soon.  Thankfully, I got weekends to hop on a bus ... North Wales. Unfortunately getting to South Wales would be 8 hours ... lonely towards the end of the month. But I did appreciate getting to see

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  dorms, it can be hard for freshmen to get singles, since upperclassmen get ... straightforward (tips 1-4). It's harder to nail the slight (emphasis on slight ... time can lead to frozen pipes. Don't eat in your room – Snacks might be

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  student initiative to get more fruits and veggies readily available on ... blog and come on - it's not like I'd be able to focus with the sky so ... raffle to get a free 32GB ipod touch. Yeah. I know. Wow. If that's not an

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist MIT admitted some applicants from the waitlist today.

  

  determine how many students we could take at this time, and which students to ... students on the waitlist that we will not be able to offer them admission. We offered a spot on the waitlist to just under 400 people, and most of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  in the post to get derailed, CJ. The people have come here for fortune ... conversation. How did we get there? CJ: We were talking about emails. You know ... about how to unsubscribe from the thread. The advice was to reply with the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  into some websites and blogs on this very site, I started really liking ... to just be themselves without looking down on them for not fitting some ... living in. And I’ve even started to make my mark on the walls. I would

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017