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• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  I don’t need to worry about the future so much—the train will always ... current world is not good enough, and we need to strive for change, and we ... without any well-defined values at all—but values need to be achieved

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  ’s much easier to carry groceries on your back than in your arms. When ... , you will get a sense of how much things cost. If you’re new to buying ... expensive. I went here once to get some freshly baked bread. There are bulk

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Class of 2014 track jacket When your MIT friends say you're a dork, you know you have a problem

  

  It finally arrived. All you need to know is that something in here matches something in here.

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Redefinitions Name the planet contest REDUX.

  

  http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/pluto-new.html So now, we're down to 8 planets. Thus, the contest needs revision itself. Best mnemonic you can make with MVEMJSUN. Ready, set, go!

  • by Bryan
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  MIT. MIT has changed me so much as a person that it kind of shocks me to ... , reputation, weather) turned out not to matter as much as the things i didn ... with is yourself. The only person you need to be better than is yourself

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Southern California Fires Our thoughts go out to those affected by the wildfires.

  

  that your teachers are also impacted and may need extra time to complete ... , we send our best to everyone impacted by this situation. Our thoughts ... , or even months, before things get back to normal. Please know that for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  still manage to get into accidents pretty much every day because of the ... I don't have many pet peeves when it comes to MIT, but one of the biggest is people who do not understand how to drive on the Infinite

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  Before I get to an actual point in my next post, let me say this: I ... lack the ability to cook food in small amounts and nearly all of my ... 't cook to save my life. I was dead set on living in a dorm with a dining

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  wonders have inspired scientists to innovate. When a group of MIT researchers wanted to create the next and best surgical band-aid, they turned their attention to the gecko. Geckos can scale smooth walls at a whopping

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  entire country is open to me. Seriously, if I needed a place to stay or ... very little awake time during the week and there isn't a whole lot to ... application, the Celtics riots, the Red Sox game I went to, yadda yadda yadda

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  allowed to account for extremes, we need a hypothetical example in which the ... negatively to the organ variant to guide our search for moral principles. Does ... , paradoxically, become a rather depressing pastime of mine. Sometimes, it's fun to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  completely new - seemed to last forever, but once I settled into a rhythm days ... to - almost as much as I loved the New Mexico skies. ... I'm currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is the February Updates ... supplemental portfolio, but you do not need to; I would only consider this if you ... denied in EA. Deferred students, however, will have to wait a little longer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  … (in)tense. I haven’t experienced that much uncertainty in my life ... heading to MIT one hour and then think that I wasn't getting into my ... know the professors will accept it. So I wanted to reach out to you, MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  decisions. We are just people who once went to MIT (maybe in a time when it was easier to get into MIT than it is now) and have insights into the ... we do send notes on your behalf to the admissions team so they know a

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  ! Summer before freshman year = time to relax."]desperately needed a break ... will make a post compiling them all some day"]there was so much more to ... . Maybe your experiences were similar to mine; probably a lot of them were

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  case, if you truly desire to be here, apply again. You may gain much from ... Dear Applicant to the Class of 2019, The long awaited season of ... had fun, and sufficient challenges as well. Now you’re ready to move on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  that Nobel Prize? It’s all too much to memorize! :D Part VI: Post ... surreal - to be done, to pack, and to see my once-full room like this ... for this day to come, for this year to end. But now, a large part of me

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  : Sees nothing wrong with thousands of unread emails. Not much to say ... 're late night psetting that question will shift to "How much of this problem ... Cambridge. Here's a handy chart I threw together to show contact time at MIT

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Party pics

  

  feeds on our suffering. Hey, it's MIT, you need something to feed on your ... there's not enough suffering for him to feed on. Once term starts, he ... pretty white dress and a crown of black roses, and is being led to the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 2, 2005