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• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  other than the coding portions on psets, and it was hard for me to wrap my ... -cambridge to pick up a desk that jeff bought from someone for $10. it's a nice ... high school and most recently during my trip to new york for spring break

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come to MIT Get a free haircut!

  

  It’s spring break! Time for students to stop frantically trying to finish psets and start less-frantically trying to take care of all the ... interested in learning to cut hair; anyone can email and ask for a cut, but

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  , I thought it'd be fun to share my study tips on How to Finals ... gives me motivation to study because it's on my calendar. I do also make sure to leave some room for fun things, i.e. baking cinnamon rolls

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  scenes for ThesisNovel before I sent the first fifth of it off to my ... experiences—I decided to look for the essays I actually wrote when I applied to ... to my dad so I could get a second opinion on what I’d written. The

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  college-level class -- Go for it! You have nothing to lose on PNR, you like ... half-explain/half-give advice on academic preparation for your freshman ... .01 is pretty similar to AP Calc BC. Depending on the test you want to take

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  was like a child to me. Among many instances of working on the set for ... First, I want to thank my amazing roommate-in-exile Cami for letting ... Arts. I wanted to share with you what makes MIT such a special place for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  blog at some point. Our class has been planning for weeks to do a ... [annotation note="I just want to say that every single time I have seen Nina for ... saying it for years, and recently that people seemed to think it was odd

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  ’s going to be ok by The Oatmeal An Invocation for Beginnings by ze frank ... your own resources and tips for coping on Decision Day in the comments ... Dear 2020 MIT Protofrosh,  Today or tomorrow, depending on your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  working on my personal statement for a few weeks now and am now on draft 4 ... ,000 words.  It's made me reflect on what I really want to do and made me leran ... application essays I want to complete before I leave for my semester abroad.  I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  revisions for my writing class to do Wednesday, and on Thursday I had to ... 's not like knowing this will matter to me for the rest of my life. But on ... really fun to dive into; and I'm a frosh on [annotation note ="pass

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  , endless categories, and I want to fill them all with my insights on The MIT ... went on during IAP." noun -- the location of one's UROP "I'm on my way to ... DID YOU KNOW? Homemade mayonnaise is actually acidic enough to kill

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  to continue their D-Lab projects for longer than three semesters - such ... -Lab: surviving on $2 a day - the typical living income for a Third World country ... trouble for the group, until finally they were presenting the charcoal to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  considerations to cover. Correspondingly, economists deliberate on an additional ... tendency to imagine how these intuitions should apply on a broader political ... , musings on this broad range of topics had led to a number of late

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  that Paul was too shy to blog (come on now. we're all adults) was that ... commenting on how fantastic you are, Mr. Gaiman, and your books really speak to ... housing for free in return for volunteering at Commencement. More later

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  there waiting for one of the two or three daily trains to get us into ... roll on, which also happens to be a catenary. I took 18.022 myself, a ... where things started to go downhill for us.

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  I thought it would be good to share here too for those of you who may ... perspective on what a robotics career has practically meant to me, but don’t be ... impossible point on the very edge, that we know how to pick up a tennis ball

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  We have nice things on the walls And I have pictures.

  

  own bubble wrap to it. This is on a wall in the same part of the house ... letters back to their MIT family. We tack them up on the wall in the kitchen ... +/- 3 beds (too sleepy to think harder about it); two are doubles, and the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 10, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  Last weekend, I went to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). All MIT students get in free with their MIT ID Card, which is always exciting ... last... This ship is part of the "Things I Love" collection, on loan

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  Tissues - One 12 page lab report on the superposition of effects of ... Problem Set - 1 Exam involving problems on design optimization and NDE techniques 21F.703 - Spanish III - 1 Exam - 1 Paper on "El Espinazo del Diablo

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Overcommit Responsibly sidequesting like a pro

  

  decide to put all your points into academics for example, all of your other ... with an overwhelming number of quests on top of having to maintain your ... to play next and you’re optimizing for skills and exp that will be

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 6, 2025