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• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  pass. On the plane I decided to text my dad to let him know I made it ... the best way to talk about my life since I last wrote without publishing ... things. Also, lists are really easy to comment on, because you can say

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  advisor)'s office on Tuesday in search for the answers to life, the universe, and also how to navigate the Course 2 roadmap, littered with numbers ... 's just skip to the next point), Even with his whole morning booked up

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  .    Today I am going to offer my advice on how to approach the ... little research on the web, and think of some questions to ask. Remember ... interviews has changed (though Stu's advice on how to prepare for it remains

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  tour of the second half of Calculus I in six insane weeks. Now it’s the ... !!!) multiple ideas to solve a key problem. Yeahhhhhhhhhh--- I don’t like the ... things MIT has been doing to me: I finally buckled down and memorized the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  end of semester surveys), students spend 20 hours on 031. So, doing the math, we’d most likely spend close to 40 hours on 031. And spend close to 40 hours on 031 we did. This class CONSUMED our lives last semester

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  some point, I took a break to refill my mug, pausing on my way out the ... the good life?” and on the very last page I underlined “to such a degree ... ?” -Anne Fadiman, in the preface to her essay collection Ex Libris

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  't relevant to the post as a whole and because I didn't know a lot of the ... , are just the coolest shit.) I reworked my schedule to include 24 ... make a website or add-on to make life at MIT easier, like Courseroad or

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  helping run our Delivery! We’re passing on the torch to you guys! Good Luck ... location is also next to the garbage cans and trash shoot, and behind the bathroom on our floor (*classy*). I remember seeing the sophomores last year

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  there too. On to the Boston Regional- it was the first year Boston had a ... possible to apply for transfer?? I saw on the MIT fact that they only ... allowed to miss one of each. I haven't worked on the ambulance much, but

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  to wander down to the Porter Room on Sunday morning and grab some of ... bake us goodies and check up on us to make sure that we're being ... celebrate the bountiful fall harvest of apples and give us all a reason to use

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  . (Thanks, college!) But to focus on the mostly positive, here are the things ... Program), and the adjustment back to home life has been, as usual, greater ... shower for the first time in months without having to flop around in flip

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  is easy. Generally, you just sign on to the MIT MUN mailing list, and ... 's what you want. But before jumping on the bandwagon, you need to consider ... Sometime in the last month, I was forwarded a request to blog about

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  first time, but much easier the second so this is your chance to do paper ... -JLab-related.  In addition to being absurdly good at teaching, the people on the ... fun -- I absolutely recommend it!!! Second, please add quotes to the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching no need to panic

  

  any time on January 1 or before, but try not to wait until the last ... you trying to get your Regular Action application in by the January 1 ... , just be sure to designate MIT to receive the scores. Please do not rush

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  ’s fine to contact them again. It you don’t hear back after the second call ... still be trying to figure out who your EC is so let's talk a bit about the mechanics of how this all works. The best way to find out the name and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  song. The second one is "annoying 1e bot", which is programmed to say all ... get ahead on work. And I'm one of the lucky ones - I'm at my parents ... it's okay to feel unmotivated right now, though. The world is an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  it to make a program that did things on the Internet. In fact, I ... making plans to build an igloo tomorrow. I've been working on a few ... know how to learn how to do things (ew, sorry for the string of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  The November Rule is the unspoken rule we have on campus that ... ="exactly 2 years ago to this day. i am the master of eerie timing"]month into ... -brain freshman year me decided that it was completely okay for me to ignore the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  was the first applicant from his school to MIT in a long time, perhaps ... addressed to the Henry County High School senior. Once Gillespie got over his ... 't want to go to MIT, despite the nice scholarship thrown in for good

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  . Anonymous asks: "How many people on the waitlist actually get to go to MIT ... of all, I wanna know what the nightlife is like on the MIT Second, is ... the past two years they haven't had a chance to go to the waitlist due

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006