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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

  

  on the fly. Some get to this break point and realize they can ... your vehicle is pointing relative to the Sun, Earth, and other reference ... start to tumble and spin, disorienting everyone on board, and (2) you

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

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  told me not to stand on the slide. Apparently I was trying to tell her ... time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born ... salaries and some help from the government, was just enough to buy half a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  the humanities requirement. Qualifying subjects range from music to ... 'm enjoying it much more than I thought I would. The first or second day of ... about the person who put them on. Costumes tell you just by looking at

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  sometimes do refer to specific fonts, not just typefaces. Second, the ... next to RLE's: This one's in Interstate. It's a font based on the road ... to its lower left, the one that starts "THIS ACCESS POINT", is in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Events

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

  

  expert, you might be calling shenanigans due to the lack of paint on the ... short span of two semesters, the term starts to lose its meaning. It ... to run up until the Friday of that week. So basically, you're learning

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  them back every Monday. The second reason the Math Office matters is to ... , proximity to the Infinite Corridor, and - most relevant to this blog entry - easy access to the Undergraduate Math Office in 2-108. Why is the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  Mitski songs, but I went to her concert anyway because the songs I did know ... . She drew an X on the back of my hand with Sharpie. My friends and I ... vocalist that sounded similar to Mitski. All the merchandise was expensive

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  previous semester, I checked the “Other” box and moved on to the rest of the ... conference or to the EECS department at large.” What would I have told them ... , many UROP projects sound extremely cool – who wouldn’t want to work on

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  pencil down and saying goodbye to genetics, at least for the time being, I was on a plane headed back to sunny southern California. My parents and ... included). Even though winter break itself ended on the 4th of January, I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  advised to bolster your courage and read on. Much more interestingly, the ... me moved back to school on Saturday, so the weekend was rather ... Waites (UGA '08 and Noel (DT) '06 in the car on our way to the pool hall

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  . On December 22, I fly back home to London for the first time in a YEAR ... is recovering properly, then fly to Los Angeles on January 6th for the ... poster on my pulsar research from the summer, and do my best to charm the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  to it. So, here's a snapshot of what I'm doing RIGHT NOW, at 11:52am on ... here. The name plate on our door has four slots, taken up by AWESOME ... walked out of the room to talk with his supervisor), Stephen sitting across

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  on something that you might be able to continue into the next year. 2 ... 't regret the fretting -- but if I had the chance to take all the time I spent ... Five Second Films http://5secondfilms.com/ 9) Earn some Achievements on

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  home, I got to work on the symposium stuff. I wrote a script and ... . Next came the weird business of figuring out how many stamps to put on ... prudent(?) decision to miss the optional activities happening on Thursday in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  on my resume and not the PhD. While this sounds loony, I've talked to a ... about 18 months. So today, I attended an info session on the Masters of ... about the BE MEng is that I get to see what life as a grad student is like

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  go to the first day of recruitment, which is on September 1. Confused ... back to. This goes on until the final event (called Preference), where ... women from 12pm - 2pm on August 26th on the second floor of the Student

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  past 10 years (CME) and I am proud to be one of the students on the ... ). Now you wonder what in the world I am doing here, on MIT Admissions blog ... programs for a reason: to broaden the students’ horizon, develop our life

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  really, you can't afford to (with the default fear of not graduating on ... want to do. And that on the flip side of fearing "falling behind" is ... things outside the bubble, I'm increasingly feeling like it's also easy to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  -Conner?"]housing.[/annotation] It was really nice to see that the professor cares about (a) making the ... Probability. I need this class for my major. On day 1, the professor said this ... noise affects signals and communications. That brings me to the next

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  the complexity of getting water to places that don’t have it. I was ... ’ve ever been asked about the water project that I’ve been working on (you ... there, because that's one of the requirements for us to just physically be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016