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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  math teacher, Mr. Bob Cohen, who had a strange fondness for referring to ... find the roots." "So, similarilarily, we have to complete the square of this puppy by adding 25 to both sides." "Let's do a rigorous proof of the

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

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  issues were much larger than that. For us, we had to think about our ... through?” For some of us, the issues got too big to handle. One particularly ... this, “I consider myself to belong to the following ethnic group

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  requiring the SAT/ACT once it is possible for everyone to take them safely ... I am writing to announce that, due to the ongoing pandemic, our ... -year applicants applying in fall 2021, or transfer applicants applying in either

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  's going to come pre-installed with Vista. SolidWorks DOES NOT run on Vista ... 're going to be MechE and run SolidWorks (which you'll have to) then you NEED ... tools we used first. We used band saws to cut some aluminum brackets

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  you need time to do so much more than that. When all your time has been ... , to feel several different kinds of grief all at once, to pay even 10 ... lesson: I felt like there was never enough time to commute, do

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  walk. having to rely so much on either buses or ubers has forced me to ... a city where i didn't need a car to get around, and could just rent ... because i've lived there all my life and i need to expand my horizons beyond

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  , I need to make travel arrangements. I'm supposed to be in LA in two ... rate, they need to get to me soon -- I just checked the Boston-LA flight I'd need to take, and there are only two window seats left! Random

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  good to breathe. As much as I love MIT, it was a relief to get away. I needed a break. I was running on low, and going to this was exactly what I ... The night of daylight savings, I tried my best to ensure that I would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  , doing so much. if i began to write everything that needed to be done, it ... building i was too scared to call home.   it hurt so much to leave home the first time. it, still hurts so, so much to leave my home. but

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  -averse but also terrified of heights, but it turned out to be a fantastic idea ... room to my right swayed with me, and so did the world four stories down at the open window to my left. I was terrified at first, but some time

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  ’t think your ambition needs to be particularly challenging or impressive, but i think it does need to be specific enough to inform you in making ... successful that company is, does not seem that appealing proposal: i want to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  use what they find there to hurt them. MIT does not look at Facebook ... find much to be objectionable - it wasn't *that* long ago that I was in ... schools, it's a mixture. Some say "that's awesome, we need to do this too

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  more logistically difficult to fit in the extra classes that you need to ... at least once a semester from the end of freshman year to the end of ... classes you'll need to take, which classes are more difficult or more easy

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  $20 for food. Come learn how to fend off the hunger once the free food ... 'll need to bring a laptop; any OS is fine. 20:47 - 21:47 Nerdy Sing-along It's hard to overstate my satisfaction with how much this event is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  fraternity deep into the woods of western Massachusetts for a much needed ... bloggers. I usually have to wait for inspiration to hit before I'm able to ... use a variety of tools to help me, from Evernote for keeping track of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  anytime I need just a few minutes of peace and quiet or when I need to clear ... reading your applications so much and it came to me about the time I walked ... on New Year's Eve. Now you need to understand that we have always done

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  teeth and popping my contacts out, among other things) before I need to be ... . Once 2:55 PM hits, I'm free for the rest of the day! At 4 PM, I head to ... fair amount of sunlight, especially when we forget to pull down the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  ’ve mentioned have won the Hunt at least once. I don’t know much about the ... with around 30 to 70 people and have won the hunt at least once ... understanding, all of these teams are still friends who meet up once a year to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  we’re lame, or because there’s not much to do in the first place. It ... to where I actually needed to be, I said goodbye and it was nice ... it’s a septum piercing, you can easily hide it if you need to by just

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  the cool kids, and it's great because I get to customize my planner the ... Jebby's so productive"[/caption] Anyway, I'm not going to do a full tour of my Notion because I'm not writing this post to show off how

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023