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• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  ways) to print. Escape this terrible fate!! I imagine IS&T explains ... (and by extension, you) is paying a gazillion dollars to have a top ... ?) before you can graduate. I am not advising you to finish your PE classes by

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  and gender identity, the Guide is able to include overall statistics for ... doing the Housing Lottery—reading and watching i3s, visiting dorm websites ... , definitely do not have cultures that everyone is drawn to. Thus, I know of many

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  If you go to MIT, the odds are good that you'll get a B at some point ... the sophomore version of pass/no record. More specifically, you get to ... you could. And frankly, getting a B after all of that is something to be

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  an avocado that's getting a little ripe, it's much better to eat the ... 's generally the same day they're passed out. That means you get one week to ... next PSET is now due on Tuesday morning. You have two fewer days to get

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  !"]FPOP applications[/annotation], advisor forms… You thought the get-to ... culture. If you’re in the market for somewhere to be from, I give Hawaii a ... ’s your major?”  You repeat the answers to those questions enough times

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  Techfair is here! Held right before classes start in the Spring semester, Techfair is a student run career fair that showcases some of the ... to 3pm and then the banquet and afterparty following in the upcoming

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  ’t seem to fit with anything. The latter is more specific to my own dorm ... gets painted back to white eventually and the curved walls some of the ... students to customize their rooms is actually in the furniture. From my

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  fastest way to get from Building 2 to E25? At the same time, too, there was ... show you; 2) yes — go to the closet and get another roll and it will pop ... survive. Is it my duty to give back in some way? I was big on duty in high

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  -evaluate the plan.  3) Sometimes the best thing to do is to go to bed (or go get ... who were willing to take the risk and get their hands dirty. 3) You’re ... few components: Why: Get to the root of what is causing people to

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  the questions above. I would get excited by a scientific breakthrough ... the only one posted right now, but there is much more to come! I hope ... opportunity to see what real research is like. Not only do you get to flip

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  to no longer be among the 'babies' of the school, to be replaced by the ... the best decisions I've made in my life. Also - we're getting a new ... , but that doesn't do any justice to the individual ups and downs I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  of your choice. Also, I'm kinda trying to hype myself up over the ... ). [annotation note = "The 'k' is a joke, albeit not a funny one. I was inspired by ... ."]Physicks[/annotation] How to actually use polar vectors! Basically this is the same thing as

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  When Friday Arrives… A glimpse into my social life, among other things.

  

  the last problem sets I will ever do as a freshman, which is a pretty awesome feeling. All that's left to finish up this semester is the final ... choosing your Athena names. Basically, do your best to pick a name you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  the best way to talk about my life since I last wrote without publishing ... with organizations like Habitat for Humanity. I think the best way to ... . Amnesty won the philanthropy award, by the way. Woohoo. I'm going to ride

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  , it's not like you're the oldest person in the company by any stretch ... too. Why did you decide to do a master's? Xian: The main reason is that ... days, is what I want to do after I graduate. Lillian: You're a senior

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  for a run. Even if the only running you usually do is away from your ... of getting in based on your test scores ... internet or even snail mail, but by Hermes, the messenger god. It was a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  you're planning to come to MIT you should read up on the cheer before you get here, since it's sure to be legendary by the time you get here ... neater, but quickly decided against that. So I went to the Genghis Khan

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  opinion, is the stupidest way to choose to not drop something. I am not ... completing tasks and reaching goals is not the only way to measure care or ... the best math when you have time to breathe and time to think. the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Quidditch: The Best Thing EVER? Yes.

  

  about getting used to moving on the broom and handling the ball with just ... volunteered to dress in gold and play the snitch. The snitch is allowed to run ... spectators. Given that the sport is brand-new, I expected the stands to be

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  startup community from cities all over the US. Getting to Disrupt was quite ... finally switched over to a bus to get to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal where ... get ok's from each of my professors for me to miss the last week of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016