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• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  you're dead set on having a desktop and wouldn't work with anything less ... Macs. Which Mac though? >Macbook Macbooks are great for your typical, everyday student. If you're going to be doing basic typing, Mathematica

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  signed by the Harvard professor, your advisor, and the director of the HASS ... the MIT HASS office and the Harvard registrar. No more than half of your ... anyway if you're taking MIT classes). So about four times a week now, I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  public service announcement on where to buy stuff for your future ... student, you're eligible to purchase a discounted monthly T pass. If you don ... the zoo. I get lost a lot.) If there's anything you need for your dorm

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  difficulty of the work, but simply jogging your brain again to compute ... you take a gap year, try to keep your mind fresh with some school ... happy endings, even if you don't end up at your first-choice college. Just

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred ... of your body love what it loves. i emailed him a few weeks ago in a ... Geese - Mary Oliver (of course) Tell me about despair, yours, and I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  small part, only trace a quarter of it i don't know your full history ... this connection i know you're not real, you're not living, you're not ... person it feels like there's this hole it feels like, when you're

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2022 judge our music taste (the 5th installment)

  

  respective countries. here are the previous editions, if you're interested ... celebrates. In your personalized Wrapped experience, you may have noticed a new feature: Your Listening Personality. there are four categories with two

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  will not last. if your blade was too dull, that is because you yourself ... me: do you think you’re a spiky person or a soft person? they clarified ... your dreams through negativity. i learned that last year and it is a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  .0001 has timed, in-class MicroQuizzes that test your competence in creating ... how you are doing. This is nice because you can keep trying until your code passes. This is scary because you automatically know when you're

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  [annotation note="You can change your major at any time after this date. It ... you want! To preface this section, I must first state that your major is not the sole determinant of your opportunities. This can be hard to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  ? also, locking your bike seems time-consuming and annoying. this is just ... , and if you lock your bike correctly, you should not have any problems. i ... reasonable amount of sleep before your 10 am. also, if you're cooking for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your classroom to inspire your students, Gisel is probably the person who put it in ... you forgot to pack your fact sheets, [annotation note="As you can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  would say, ‘You won’t be alone if you take care of your people’, so we ... feeling when someone is explaining something to you multiple times, but you’re ... though you can see that they’re frustrated? But despite trying your best

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  the hard way that proving you're right rarely ever proves anything to ... your core values. For example, picking a restaurant is probably not the ... friendship lives on in your memories. Walk around with a smile, and the world

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  an additional opportunity to improve your score on any section of one ... repeat itself semester after semester. You turn in your last pset, present your final projects, complete your final exams. You're done. You might

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  ) or can relate to it and want to talk about your experiences and ... 're recruiting, so if you're going to be at MIT in the fall and are interested in ... here (under "Local Opportunities," with MIT as your school). Thing

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  -to-make recipes with the rest of the world. If you're interested in learning to cook ... selection. I haven’t been to these markets, but you can check them out if you’re ... at Whole Foods without breaking your budget provided you are very, very

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  Holy Beaver! You’ve received your letter from Hogwarts MIT and you ... on entering college. So click away! If you’re like me, then in the weeks preceding college you’re frantically reading everything ever on the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  , and it can all feel artless. But then you might look to your left, and ... day soon get your art on again. (Maybe when you graduate, the cynic in your head suggests.) Or maybe sooner. I'm never short on inspiration

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  and never questioned them. Now you’re probably wondering how any of ... that’s what you’re thinking so I can continue with this train of thought ... look inwardly in a way that you cannot survive only justifying your

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015