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• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  tunnel near the esplanade." Nice. Clearly a plot by security trying to get ... , crossed it, and headed to the Hatch Shell. This is when I began my ... the awesome company they are, decided to pay all of the interns and

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  whom to admit, but the final choice is yours -- which school is the best ... Common Reply Date. The day by which you need to let your colleges know your ... whether or not to attend MIT, please let us know your decision through the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  work to maybe get to where he is one day, and at the end of the day, no ... , because not even the person who is supposed to know me best and understand ... 'm about 50% of the way there, but the rest of it is attributed to my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  happened to your real mother. Along the way, the Olympians provide you with ... schedules. But now that the gym is open, I'm starting to get back a bit into ... destress! Also, this is actually just an excuse for me to talk about the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  you have to do is reach the end and rest your legs for a while. For an ... your legs and the feeling of your throat getting dryer. In that moment ... the world. The wind blows through your hair and the ground seems to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  highest suicide rate? The answer to that question is: No, this is not true ... judgment-blurring intoxication. Despite this, it is important to keep the ... possible, it is best for troubled students to remain in school among their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  quickly, and there’s not much time to get to know someone beyond the labels ... not. I am going to sell all your stuff when your back is turned.) Are ... -love way of saying, "You've only been there a week; you'll get used to it

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  , your tired soul is momentarily uplifted by the sight of hearts, stars ... really gentle. (This is literally the extent to which we covered topology ... creativity and free-thinking, is the venerated observance of Lunchtime in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  way to a 7.03 (genetics) exam in the morning. After the exam, I headed ... a quick photo of the Boston skyline, which happened to look rather ... to say MIT is one of the few places on earth that would choose to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  else? Balance patch in Boston is by far the best LAN cafe in the area ... able to do it during the school year. ;-; My coworker is literally a god ... 'm also going to date this post by saying this, but Nintendo is going to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  Kamen's goal with FRC and all of the FIRST competitions is to popularize ... people cheering each other on, competition is as close as you get to a STEM ... . Founded in 1989 by Segway inventor Dean Kamen, FRC is an activity where a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  this morning to harvest my cells. The good news is that I'll be doing two ... . Shen asked about the swim test (which I really need to get around to taking...) -- according to the website, "The swim test requires that you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Updates for the Admitted There's good stuff on your MyMIT portal.

  

  enter themselves on the guestbook, it's a good way to share your contact information securely with your future classmates, and to get emails and ... Release Form. Notes to the wise: if you're flying in, book your plane

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  cure cancer. 3)Stick to it. By far the hardest part. It's easy to get ... you go to schedule your week you don't have to try and remember all the ... something else (use it as leverage to get a smartphone from your parents: "mom

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  at MIT, I got to be Tim the Beaver.   Get to check that one off ... other MIT engineers to get the AC working, haha!) Then, to give Tim his ... ’t realize that the head adds a good foot and a half to your height! Because

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  -sided die, the probability of getting a number smaller than 3 is 2/6. Now ... -number comparator: the simple ability to say things like “2 is smaller than ... decides that 2 is indeed smaller than 3. The problem is, if we get unlucky

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  . A flashback to a previous entry is probably a good way to begin this ... geek points built up to get some of the cool expensive stuff (if I didn't still want to save them up!). The point is, $100 of prize money wasn

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  the difference if you don't let others on to your reasoning), you can ... After talking to my friends during the first week of senior year and getting cold glares cast my way each time I shared my schedule, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  . Anonymous asks: "How many people on the waitlist actually get to go to MIT ... when I came to Campus Preview Weekend, I liked the place. I liked the way ... your blog so I was just wondering what your major is and why you chose to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  ? Her? You don't get to do that." and it shut me up real quick. I forgot ... when I had to do group projects with the people I had tried my best ... blinked. Processed. Blinked again. I get to just not come to school in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020