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• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  , including one where you get to build furniture for your room (a picture of a ... ahead for some of you, but say you're a freshman who chooses to live in ... seminar also serves as your freshman advisor. This way, you get to know the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I list standardized test results?

  If you are planning on applying to MIT and would like to see our testing requirements, please visit our Tests and scores page. You are not required to send your official scores as part of your application
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  -die in a car, and I’m still unsure why sixteen-year-olds are excited to get ... that class, and it will sync to a larger masterlist in the main page ... ’s… …and hopefully, I’ll be able to get back to you in a year or two to say

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  test–but if you’re in a time crunch, it’s difficult to glean out the ... guide to preparing (or at least a guide to how I prepare) in the hope that ... to take all your subject tests/APs in the classes you’ve taken, if at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  take a while, and it can feel like you’re getting nowhere. This seems to ... get the impression that success as a math major must mean being able to ... fact that what "math" means has changed a lot -- from arithmetic to short

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  in a pool deep enough for me to have to swim since I was, like, 8. So ... ; I don’t know how to swim. I got two and a half laps in when I realized ... get to skip the line of people attempting the test to sign up for a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  What To Bring To MIT Next Fall? If you're planning on having a bike, make sure to bring a good bike lock. Maybe four. I don't actually know if it's been stolen - I have a tendency to...forget where I leave things. Like my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  you're here! There's way too much stuff to do, and it's not a true MIT ... ! Nice to meet you! I'm Keri Garel, class of 2010, and in the blogger world ... in a cognitive science lab (the very lab Lydia blogged about in her

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  baked (here's the recipe, in case your mouth just started watering!). To ... myself to not let myself get buried so far in my classwork that I don ... new store, I took a different street back to my dorm. [caption id

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  a golf ball moving 1" to start your link and ends by pulling a string AT LEAST 1" with enough force to lift a golf ball. * Your link must be ... I scanned the front page of The Tech, MIT’s major newspaper, and saw a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  just wanted to talk to my mom about putting me in a gifted program ... volunteered to help out the following year. (You know how it is, when you're in ... about 3 weeks ago) to get straight A's, but despised every minute of AP

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  share a lot of similar goals in getting the children to love learning ... Bill - arrived to take us to Darbonne, where we sat in on a meeting with ... found it to be pitch black. Mmm. Today began with a trip to the mechanic

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  .007 has come to a close. If you're saying, "2.007, huh?" click here and read ... ready to kick butt: I was able to score 3 engineering balls in the A bin ... ) other schools do not have the time and resources to make such a class

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  .01: Introduction to Hacking. A student's grade in 19.01 is based on three components ... you're taking one. Because everyone in MIT has to take them, it's more ... same room, to untimed, open-book, take in a 24-hour period, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  experiences you get: living with roommates, handling your daily shit in a ... order to not to hurt my eyes so, in a way, the new hobby is a rebellion ... to different stores for different foods to get the best deals, a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  find in a sticker on the upper left. Right next to that one is a sticker ... monumental events (ie, I don't go to New York to get a I heart NY sticker ... stickers really stood out to me, so they were a definite yes. I live in Mc

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  weekend in Foxboro. Well, I guess they're a little more dedicated to the ... talk into the benches. You can also try getting a friend, putting your ... apparently you have to put in a special bulk condom order if you want more

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick hello from Albuquerque I'm in New Mexico for ISEF.

  

  Musical kids yet, either) Tomorrow, I will get to have breakfast with the ISEF finalists who are members of the MIT Class of 2011, then I'll get to ... Short one today. Off to bed, then ISEF. Talk to you soon...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  as he talks to Cami, softness in his eyes, a slight smile as he talks ... first assignment of the class, we were challenged to write a script for a three-paged comic about anything we would like. We actually didn't have to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  up the rest. Oh, yeah, and I have to completely revise a 5 page ... professors that, in order to make up for not having a problem set one week ... : Harmony and Counterpoint II -- Well, I have to write a theme in the high

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005