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• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  busy that when I actually came back to the dorm, it was to sleep. Because ... rained for approximately 70% of the time, and it's hard to hold up an ... started in the fall, it made a tremendous difference to walk into a gigantic

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  3 / A team effort Roll Tech: Your newest Intercollegiate High Team silver medalists!

  

  took it slow, taking time to rest up, take care of my body and mind, go ... New York safely!"]just as fun![/annotation] It was, however, nice to get ... event unique only to the intercollegiate events. Each school can register

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  seen the MIT homepage today when you were like, "ARRRRRGHUS!! I NEED TO KNOW IF I GOT IN TO MIT!! MAYBE THEY SPONTANEOUSLY DECIDED TO POST THEIR ... have noticed that it was advertising the MIT Coal Study, an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  parents used to drive me [annotation note="bless them, it’s not an easy ... of it, but I could only rely on myself to assuage the crushing fear of ... . Its coastal views of the northeast are familiar to me, and its spotty Wi

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  was nothing like the sleek videos OpenAI likes to tout in its demos ... ’s when everything started to go downhill. It turns out (unsurprisingly ... realizing it, these subtle flaws began to mess with my mind. When I took a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  EA, RA, and Transfer Updates Including the status of MyMIT tracking and the latest for those impacted by Sandy.

  

  " when you submit it, and then email us and have us change it to Early ... decisions.  It will probably be in mid-to-late December.  Please be ... Happy November -- it's almost Thanksgiving!  Here are some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  property and to your children. The Y-Knot's rope can be used for other ... toy in the store and bring it to us immediately. She warned us that the ... meantime. In my old age, I've come to realize that it's really the little

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  .” Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that, though, I have friends who can probably help host. It would be extremely awkward for the prefrosh to sleep ... ) everyone who passes by. It’s a very useful experience—you have to learn to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  sisters in an informal setting. This is useful for underclassmen who are to ... : It’s hard to stay healthy at MIT! Because of this, each of the ... Bull cans, it’s your friends who get you through the night. There are

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  is to come!). And, if you can swing it, consider taking a gap year ... January, can I just ask my teacher to submit it when school starts again ... somewhere were wrong? Do I need to print out that page, sign it, and mail it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  through a series of challenges (an application, as it were) to test their ... candidate school. According to Kahneman: ...as it turned out, despite our ... also have caused us to moderate our predictions, but it did not. We knew

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  theory is about making messy systems behave the way you want them to behave; this can be as simple as making sure a toilet doesn't overflow or as ... class in space systems engineering) have led to real systems for

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  it, and headed to lab. I try to go to lab once a week. Sometimes I can ... around to getting dressed it was about 2:30 and I put on my SPS Shirt ... calculator, and in the end it turns out my dad had just forgotten to pay last

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  -emailed them. After that, the turnaround was pretty quick. I went to zoom ... target. There's a quote misattributed to Einstein that goes, "If you can't explain it to a six-year-old, you don't understand it well enough." In

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home Away From Home Complete with Batman mask, kettle corn, and ticket stubs

  

  (Click to zoom) Panoramic look at my room in Random Hall, let ... crux of my media collection. It starts off with some classic newspaper comics, Calvin & Hobbes and Dilbert. From there it leads into the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 4, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Hidden Treasures @ MIT: Pistol Think Pistols Are Cool? Wait Till You Meet Mike Conti

  

  for the class is such that it's easy to use it to escape from daily work ... everything I learned from it in a bit. For now I want to start a series a blogs ... . To which I'd reply, yes, but it's not the actual class that makes

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  research on colonial United States up to the Declaration of Independence and ... allows us to see history as it happened, as if she was the proverbial fly on the wall at Independence Hall. I find it amazing that American

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  pictures can you fit in a blog post?” The answer, it turns out, is a lot! I ... , which I happily used as an excuse to fold geometric origami and build ... friends as much as from my classes, have been things I wouldn’t expect to be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  walking long distances. It's the subtle things, though, that are hard to ... ? When it comes to matters of character, "it never feels like one has ... sake of physical fitness, but for the sake of proving to myself I can do

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: REGRESSIONS a documentary on MIT, and why it's so important

  

  from World War 2 to COVID-19. It uses 80 years of AI-enhanced archival ... , though, and it's painful to see what campus life used to be like when there ... system in place of it.  The non-conformist, unique groups that used to live

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 12, 2022