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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  bed to jump on. Or maybe a window to jump out of. I needed to pull a ... mental, physical, emotional energy. I walked back to French House like a ... 's a wimp. When situations get rough, she jumps on her bed to get as far

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  , meaning that if a BNSF railway train needs to get by, that train will get ... scarred the owners so much that they needed to put up this sign.   5 ... need to see what all this deep-dish pizza talk is about. So we went to a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  wanted to go to college, and I had a few ideas of where I wanted to apply ... class, you were guaranteed admission to a state school, so I figured ... of my shorts and trying desperately to find a date to prom. Then one

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  , with open notes and as much time as I needed, and scan my answers back to ... It took me a while to internalize that a grade is fixed but one's reaction to it is not. Like I mentioned, 8.05 (Quantum II) was a rough time

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  on the Internet, but I need to have time to acquire a power adaptor for ... much a lot of the stuff written in the MIT forum (and elsewhere, for that ... rampant. The clincher was when a friend sent me a link to a post about

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  they have way more time to finish a task then they need does, and I ... . To understand, we need to take a step back and look at my homework in ... will, nearly everyone does), and be prepared to do less but much much

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  obscene hours of the morning to attend a 2 hour long double lecture. And you get to do this every day. You get to do one double-pset and a lab each ... partner to design, build, and test a water rocket with an objective of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  delivered to me a message from a high school friend, querying how much I liked MIT. I started to write a real answer but then realized that my laundry ... to the other side of the street. December 18th, thus far, has been a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  applicants for next year would need to take a humanities SAT II in addition to ... looking for perfection. One does not need straight As to get into MIT. Some ... how does grad school admissions work? Do you need to get straight As all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  teach them how to use Illustrator so I've decided to write a blog about it ... thing to do when you open Illustrator is to make a new document. You can ... +s after the document is made to choose a directory, save, and rename if you

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  As the final hours of my first semester at MIT come to a close, I ... an admissions blogger to watching a movie every night for PNR. College ... with MIT, but it just gives you a better opportunity to meet more people

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  getting a PhD by offering a gift to his committee beforehand--while most of ... ? Hacksaw? Russ will always know where to find it. Everyone's getting a bit ... that he'll be heading to his alma mater West Point next year, as a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  asks, "Does anyone know if CPW is restricted to students who are accepted ... submissions of art, music, etc, but it is starting to get a little late in the ... 2: Is there a standardized definition for "best match" to MIT? What is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  my annual pilgrimage to Cambridge for the MIT Mystery Hunt, a puzzle competition on a grand scale. Teams of up to 200 people attempt to be first to solve over a hundred puzzles and put the answers together to find a coin

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  that I need to put in this work now for when I apply to schools this ... apply to graduate school. 2) is a class with my research advisor, and I ... Course 18 (mathematics) you need two of these classes to graduate. I really

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  only need a semester to graduate anyways, I've decided that this will be ... -19 restricted MIT campus. To clarify, I don't actually need to live on ... even be back by the fall, and that I would need to find alternate housing

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Peace Out, 2005 Saying goodbye to a great year!

  

  . Work is included in that, but you need to be able to sometimes take a ... 2005 in Review Being in college manages to teach you a lot of life ... is the worst grade to get. It means you were "this close" to an A- but

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  few other FIRST students to create the DIY Segway. I didn't build much ... 've wanted to tell and a feeling that I've felt the need to express for a long ... Tonight's blog entry is brought to you by Cam, a resident of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Urban Studies and Planning at MIT! On the DUSP: Part 2

  

  [annotation note="Urban Studies and Planning"]11,[/annotation] hoping to bring a ... to a thousand more questions than the ones I came in looking for ... between transportation and energy a few times before settling on housing and

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  already gave you the steps to foiling a UFO abduction - it's pretty much the ... orange books that tell you everything from how to do a 360 with your car to how to escape from a well. Today's lesson? How to Foil a UFO Abduction

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006