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• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  you can get a sense of what it was like[/caption] I examined the damage ... uses to send calls for help My message: Then, I biked over to MIT ... maker space) and used the calipers to measure the buckle of my display

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  syndrome this summer, and I can’t tell if it’s because of the team I worked ... ’t struggling to hold my water pitcher when it was full. The thought of getting up ... pressing desire to learn how to drive. The one time I used public

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  -bogglingly stressful. It’s significantly harder to convince someone to do something ... ’t be so quick to write things off if you think you might be interested ... you to stay — and be straight up with them about it. Don

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  that apartment dwellers can use to split a bedroom in two to save on rent ... product, and proceed to spend every waking hour of their lives (it seems) working on it, hoping to have the full, finished, working (!) prototype done

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Time to Complete the MIT Midyear Report Applicants need to fill out the form on MyMIT by February 15th.

  

  The MIT Midyear Report is now available! You can fill it out now at ... only grades and not narrative text if you can help it. For example, it is ... "Spring semester;" it will be, in many cases, better to leave it blank

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  great option for anyone adMITted who wanted to consider it (and now, a ... year to year: freshman year it’s learning, sophomore year it’s preparing ... completely different location, this was a great experience for me since it can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  even just showing me how to use the dishwasher. I think overall it ... finding, moving in to, and living in Random Hall! It's a mixture of the move ... didn't register it was a dorm on the MIT Guide to Residence page and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  to my smartphone’s autocorrect. It’s not wrong.) Just like literally ... scenario, even if it looks aesthetically awkward to reorganize my sentence around it. Sometimes the best solution is to just dodge the problem

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  experience at MIT, but it seems to me that you can find pretty much every type ... things going on but it would be cool to hear people's thoughts about the ... , I made it to Burton-Conner (Mitra's dorm), another place I really

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  anyone can do - is try to put themselves in new, occasionally uncomfortable, situations, and try to take what you can from them. That's probably one of the ... Boston to Frankfurt, and then Frankfurt to Almaty, the cultural and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  classes. It was a good entry, and this was going to be a comment on it, but ... younger Asian and Indian kids (I hate to specify race/ethnicity, but it was ... . They literally used to follow me around asking me odd questions. "How do

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  ) informing me that a reclusive-cousin-of-a-friend-of-a-friend used to be a ... MIT it's actually psychologically impossible for me to turn down ... of "Somebody to Love" by Queen, and it's a song that you could adapt

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How can I explain the context of my grades/scores, and/or provide additional information?

  coursework, access to testing, and extracurricular activities. If you feel it ... to use those spaces to share more. ... On the application, there are designated spaces to provide additional
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  results. It's really great if you can come into MIT and take sophomore ... --however, remember that you're going to be taking it with mostly sophomores (and ... you don't need to take. So, here's how it goes. Physics: The GIRs are

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  semester ends can do… things… to your sleep schedule. Also it was the weekend ... consider it my sacred duty to announce the [annotation note="i.e. the first ... : it was time to build a snowman. Now, as you probably noticed, there

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  , and it was a lot more fun than I expected it to be! I might blog about it in another post, but for now, I wanted to give a small room tour! I ... along the ceiling that I use to hang coats and other clothes sometimes

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  , combined with [annotation note="To Simmons' credit, it has a 'social lounge ... cooking. It’s my personal opinion that even if you know how to cook a ... make meat the tenderest it can be. I didn’t know any of these things, so

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  over IAP. I have not taken a D-Lab class, so I can’t speak to it too ... program or grant to get you there. And it’s not just study abroad: there ... wanted to try living abroad, this is a good taste test because you can live

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  figure that can wait a few days. Because I got to thinking this afternoon ... our own research projects in grad school. But I'm going to take it ... it comes time to pick a grad schools. 2. The discipline I chose

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  for a quick bite) and reassembled it here, only to discover that one of ... if you don't like what I'm about to say or how I said it. It was once a robust, lively post. You can imagine that it was once inundated with much

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006