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• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  maintaining attitude: 1. Failure is an option Most people go into MIT used to ... 've had to learn at MIT is: hitting a wall is okay!  Actually, it's great ... where you must prepare, you can’t do it. You don’t know how. Even the most

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  you want it to be. That most people don't actually take six classes a ... a class to listener; I am auditing the class now. Three. Now, it ... , it feels like it's a decision I made. I chose to take lots of classes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  frankly thought it would be a short stopover on my way to law school. I was wrong (thank goodness). I've loved it here. And I've never wanted to leave ... comfort zone and expose me to new ideas that I could use or discard as I saw

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  next? Prefrosh applicant Emad Taliep '14 used this prompt to share with ... article: Kill Zombies With Your Rock Band Drums The wait to use your Rock ... -based developer Andrew Laing can tell the future c) The idea of using death metal

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  froze exactly as it was, would you be able to roll it like a bowling ball ... . Finally, I went to Allison's and watched Sin City and as a result I can ... this book. Roth can really write, and I want to get acquainted with some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  camera. Hey, I'm not a morning person, and I can't remember to do ... sends an electrical signal to its end which causes little packets of ... , because reshaping of the spines via the cytoskeleton can be shown to have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  enough to use pre-made dough so I made cinnamon rolls from scratch. I ... to handle it”) and my little broskie got a snow day. Naturally ... altitude over some undetermined state in the Midwest. I’m now writing, I can

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  and biscuits. It was good. I realized I have a lot of groceries to ... Square with my friend Moctar F. '22. It was the first time I has been to ... it! The main things I'm going to need to store are my whiteboard, desk

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  's about time to blog about it. Turns out I'm just as bad as blogging things ... realized why no one explained anything to us. It was exactly because we ... impossible, because no matter what you do, someone else thinks they can do it a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  like most of my peers, but hey, it seems to have worked out"]never had a ... snacks to the site and got ready to work. All together, it took about three days of long hours to finish the assembly from start to finish. You can

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Events

  All Hallow’s Eve You're never too old to trick-or-treat...

  

  Happy (belated) Halloween! Although I guess it's November now but let's ignore that. This is gonna be a quick post mainly because I half ... , and I still have some other work to finish before sleeping. For the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  freshman classes, it's useful to ask the sophomores/juniors around you if ... gained the Freshman Negative Five when I came to MIT. Join a club sport! It ... other questions, as always, please feel free to ask. Does it cost extra

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  this room, placed enough things, learned enough about it, to have formed ... the fact that it has been that long, and it's way longer compared to ... suzume, i guess, in how you have to think about how this place was used

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  . It took a lot of time (the web archives go back to the 80's), but I ... to do. And it was good. I'm working for the month at my UROP, reading ... experiments... and earning 12 units of credit for it. (You can do a UROP for pay

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker, who used to be a professor here in ... wrote awesome, popular books, it sounded like a good place to be. But ... . I made the elite show choir as a junior -- the only girl to make it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I access the MIT QuestBridge Supplement?

  about how to access our MIT QuestBridge Supplement. If you are a QuestBridge Finalist that did not rank MIT, you can still use our supplement along with your QuestBridge application to apply for our Regular Action cycle, but
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  to be serious, and I just found it uninteresting. This time, however, I ... absurdity of Mamma Mia! ultimately traces its roots to the fundamental ... its presence and continuity throughout the movie. The attention to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  barbecuing that we decided to use [safely] one day. i was really excited for it ... after experiencing this tumultuous year, it's strange to be having a ... ="alignright" width="169"] it's so damn beautiful.[/caption] pretending to adult

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  valuable when it is not about beating your opponent but when it is used to ... your process – the teamwork, intentions, and values that you bring to it ... trying things, you can learn to do something that just weeks before seemed

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Battle in The Bay a comic

  

  seeding cells and learning to increase throughput with the use of all kinds ... excited to wake up and make my way to work. The routine has it's own kind of charm to it. In addition to experiencing what it's like to be a "real

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2019