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• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  .189 Intro to Python to get up to speed for 6.01 in the fall. Even if you’re ... navigate through a maze, and I started to get the hang of Python. I started ... learned SQL to store the user's data online in a MySQL table so they can log

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  lord, applying to jobs SUCKS. If you're not getting a referral or an "in ... 't think for a second that you're guaranteed to get in or stand a better ... doctor and I was destined to become a twice-terminated project manager in

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  , if you went to CPW, getting back in touch with your host is a good way ... , there's no boundaries. So in short, a poetry slam is what happens when ... someone. Now, it's good to stay in contact with your close friends from

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  short. If you're like me, when I was about to graduate from grad school at ... destabilization, of an inevitable shift in your identity, of a sense of who, what ... for the rest of your life. Here is a small piece of advice I want to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  balls in a lecture hall. "It's considered bad form to aim at your ... foil. Rutherford, of course, did it to get a clearer picture of atomic ... the professors, knowing this to be the case, will decide to throw in a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  helped admit. It felt poetic, in a way. I embarked on a new career as a ... acclimated to my new community, the louder the whispers in my head became: "Don't you think it's time to leave MIT behind?" A question I know many

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  to when I was in high school (a much simpler time when Tyra Banks was ... a buddy who wanted to hang out. Since I was a college admissions ... of as. So, I thought it'd be helpful to tell you all a bit about how I

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  Milliseconds of 35 MIllisecond Pulsars How to Finish Your HASS Requirement in 50 ... Charles, and happens to have a few resident lawnchairs. I curled up in one ... your side during a 4.5-hour standardized exam -- long story short, the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Maseeh! A look into MIT's newest dorm

  

  As you may or may not know, I'm a Maseehdonian (aka I live in the new ... 's extremely convenient that I literally just have to cross the street to get to ... much that it's starting to get cliche, but I love the people here! I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  ,” to fill every blank slot in my Google Calendar, to push myself to run ... ground; it falls with a feeble “clunk.” exhaling, i attempt to mentally ... , returning to my dorm, and sleeping, but a desire to commit to the events on my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  in a large, multi-week project. How to identify and search for the ... ) in 2022, they also introduced a new numbering system to fix this mess ... found most of my classes fun (yes, really), rewarding, and memorable (in a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  In just four short weeks, my time as a MIT freshman will draw to a ... , and bananas cheering you on. Unless you’re allergic to peanut butter, in ... , the internet is forever), and I look forward to the ones I’ll have in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  determined to get good grades and maintain a healthy social life, so I traded ... , I truly planned to get my life together enough that I could post and ... thought about if I would get fired[/annotation] but was too scared to ask

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  . Pavlok, a wearable device that zaps you in order to break you out of your ... Boston entrepreneurs. Each one is held in a different place, with this one ... get excited. Every time, I think about how far I've gone to be able to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  weird to listen to an opera, think that it must be in a foreign language ... a recording to listen to. Don't be scared; it's short! < ... history, and I'm glad that it gets played regularly instead of stuffed in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15, at 12:15 PM EST

  

  them personally to your house - you get the point. However, following ... officers have tried to mix in healthy snack choices (radishes or carrots ... your username and password correct and you're ready to go. 3.) If

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  they do it by weight but you can ask to weigh your pot in between getting ... you’ve just gotta invest in a good bowl or go to china because 💀 this ... ’t have enough ice cream that day, we walked over to get a second round of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Manage Your Future

  

  . This experience has sparked my interest in getting a job related to International ... to work in their chosen field. In 2010 & 2011, we sent 66 Management students to 9 different countries to intern in companies such as

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was inadvertently reminded, thanks to news reports, that he was once a child prodigy ... , making him the latest among my exes to pursue a STEM doctorate degree. My

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I ... the number of classes is your time-to-pee. A time-to-pee close to 1 indicates a loosely-packed schedule; the lower your time-to-pee, the tighter

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014