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• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  a less appealing piece. But what does that have to do with life? If ... . Before I came to Boston, I dedicated quite some time to ironing out the ... 's three stops on the Red Line to Porter Station"]Where is the nearest yarn

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  explain what MIT is like, not so much to explain what admissions is like ... there? You don't need to be doubting yourself as you enter finals or a ... your application, it's much easier to approach every test, knowing MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  to the second professor's office to ask in person because he does not ... professor's signature on the forms you need to get signed Be very relieved that you do not need to do anymore professor tracking, because the grad

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much better ... one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is also a good time ... who is your mentor. Also -- you do not need to choose the teacher that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  start around 11:00 am, so I’m able to sleep in much later. But yeah, these ... problems require much more creativity than I’m used to. A lot of them feel ... 's constant need for food (I firmly disbelieve that Soylent belongs to this

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  academic to walk around the bomb site. As a writer, I am much more ... As I mentioned earlier, Neil Gaiman is coming to MIT! The lecture he ... still think Neil wins. (No offense to the guv'nor, of course.) Of course

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  Agent B only needs to destroy the machine once." Have fun solving this ... I am taking. In fact, this is actually the last GIR I need in order to ... bioengineering major so it might be interesting to revisit biology and see how much

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  ramifications of my project will mean for them: some need space to put pipes in, others need to know how much heat will penetrate my shielding. Everyone I ... you need to carry cake to work on your bike, then you sort of wish for a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  maintain that if it were obvious to everyone, then I wouldn’t need to say it ... applicant less awesome. It just means that they need to be awesome somewhere ... . That may be too much to ask, and this may simply be another of my

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  floor of Barker, where I went when I needed to work for eight hours ... ’ve learned to keep moving. Sometimes I still need to cry for a few hours. I ... .[/annotation] Everything that happens to me is intrinsically linked to metadata about the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  WEEK OF CLASSES Monday - Calculate the Scores I Need to Pass So far, I ... grades in classes and decide what I would need to NR a class. The situation (aka scores needed to pass): [annotation note="Intro Chemistry"]5

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  while. And, sometimes, a distraction is all you need to rediscover a sense ... process to being on campus, when you are starstruck. Starstruck by the ... the slight urge to huddle under a blanket with a warm cup of tea and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  . Learning to drive stick-shift in a car that once belonged to my favorite ... . A million too many thoughts and intentions. I need to chill out ... much yet. My teacher is Rob, a photographer I met in a coffee shop

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  you need to do before you're prepared to take off (see the analogy ... need to ask for help. That's why we have pass/no record. The space dog analogy continues to apply elsewhere as well. Once you leave home, no matter

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  on? Which means that, well, you have to handle the waiting ... otherwise. :) Back to what I was trying to say before. One rejection does ... Today I got an email from MIT that directed me to a website which

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  /plastic/anything that needs to be shaped into a part. A lathe is for radially symmetric ... pretty much anything possible, but we had to use both the lathe and the ... my schedule, but now it's time to show just what I've been busy with

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  your way to campus, I thought I’d share a few words on my experience at CPW last year in your shoes. Well, I had never been to Boston before, so ... , so I wouldn’t have to go up to strangers and say, “Hey are you the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  demonstrate their ability to handle MIT’s rigorous academic standards. The ... . If you are interested in doing research at MIT, you will need to be ... An Exchange Student enrolls at MIT to take classes as a non
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  always try to put too much on my plate at once: I was working full-time at ... /GRE word!) I guess, strictly speaking, I don't have as much of a right to ... . This does not really make me feel all that much better. I get the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  , to say the least. I've also been out of town quite a bit thanks to the ... . But that's another story for another blog entry. What am I going to ... I and II," shortened to "J-lab" (an abbreviation of Junior Lab, as it

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007