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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  pitches a bit too rehearsed, and you're never certain if an event is casual ... , which is an Amazon Echo strapped to your dog's collar, so that it seems like your dog answers your questions. Also your dog is harder to get

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  here your whole life! And isn’t the whole reason your parents and your ... or culture or language that has affected your identity. More and more ... only need your left hand or your right hand, sometimes you need both. But

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  Friday!   It’s even crazier if you’re a first-semester freshman and ... Games  over the summer. Yes, she is a 2019!  Also, if you're wondering why ... open yourself to opportunities. Important tips for bluffing your way

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  direct transcript for your reading pleasure: Me: Tell me about your day ... are interviewing me about my day. Me: Can you rate your day? Dora: Rate my day? Um, what do you mean? Me: Like on a scale of your choosing

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  Dear 2020 MIT Protofrosh,  Today or tomorrow, depending on your timezone, you will access a special message on decisions.mit.edu. You're ... and good music. Find your own best way to cope with tension. If you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  little breath of sunshine to your day between cramming your 18.02 homework and running to your 8.01 lecture. The smell of something cooking in the ... you buy all your food from the dining hall. Salmon with chunky tzatziki

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  , someone is always going to undercut you and counter your "I only got 5 hours ... try I keep failing.   There you go, you're now on your first ... the real world and how intentions mean squat if you're not getting it

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  in your application. Instead make certain you have thought through what ... things are in your application before you hit “submit”. There is no single ... who you are and who you want to be. Embrace your choice: Once you have

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  you're an undergrad, you wear it so that "the beaver is sh*tting on you ... Cambridge and Boston skylines on the sides of the ring: while you're at MIT, you wear the ring so you're looking at the Boston skyline, and once you

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  point is, of course, that the longer you’re away from something the more ... not your average lecture class.  2.670 is essentially a shop training ... class). Plus, you get to machine your own flashlight out of aluminium

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  Cumberbatch fangirl." Sam is a brilliant physicist so cross your fingers that ... evaluations You are receiving this because you have not yet done your on line ... AM to complete your evaluations. And, I know you?ll be pleased to hear

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  screenshot of how your MIT grade report looks like online. Note: Your grade report is slightly different from your transcript. The grade report is for ... means pass. These do not weigh into your GPA. Spring semester was a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  shrink myself into my book and you’re feet making it feet agonizing feet. I know you’re not a bus, but United Airlines, for overestimating the size of your plane by half a plane, making me take another plane, filling

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  : attend a class in a major you’re interested in, visit the dorms and living ... living group that makes you feel at home: adjust your schedule so that you ... rest will be your classmates, lab partners, and pset buddies, too. Now

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  solutions to all your design criteria, and then your proposed solution is just ... your solution to a problem, pi is the ith particular subproblem, and s ... . THAT'S what engineering is all about. That's why you study your brains

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  needed to be a leader with drive to change something about your community ... take, get involved, and love what you're doing. People at MIT love a good ... does it keep your mind sharp, but it actually does prepare you for what

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  . Whenever you're feeling stressed about the millions of things that you have ... crammed in your tiny room trying to solve the hard problems together and ... this week are waiting for the newest psets to come out, come in your hour

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  in the form of your freshmen advisors. Freshmen advisors are faculty ... to ask how you're doing. I certainly can't speak for all of them since ... for your patience and politeness in pulling in the reigns more than once

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  happens when you reach the wall? Answer: You use your feet to stop. Me: Oh ... your college years. You probably know that it's young, that it's lively ... nearby. Elderly couple, whoever you are: more power to you! When you're

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  to run up until the Friday of that week. So basically, you're learning ... realize that your schedules may look like this (click 'em to make them ... " like pelting the ever-loving stuffing out of your coworkers with several

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011