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• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  ), and in order to set up breeding pairs, the postdocs needed to know which macaques were closely related to others. I don't think I got paid much ... - August 2006 I'm sure I don't need to say anything about this job (duh), but

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  "Don't give other people essays that you won't be willing to write yourself." -A wise person ---- "When you are not actually applying to ... Manhattan Chinatown. Things haven't changed that much, right? :) I actually

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  have ideas for posts that are going to be great!! So great! I just need ... does it make sense when you say you have ‘nothing to wear’. Sometimes it ... have to prioritize. As Professor Peter Fisher once said to me, “Bill

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  depends on your needs, and I'm not looking to start a flamewar here.  I will ... I like to pack light. Maybe it's some combination of old hiking ... once in a while I get questions about what you should pack before heading

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  would be worrying about how much stuff there is still to do tonight." I ... :P Every once in awhile, you come to MIT and you hear of kids here ... hilariously showed me his registration schedule once and lamented that he had to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  I'm happy to be here again for the summer. So I did this once my ... 's totally all I needed to go. I prefer the hotter weather, I put my two ... , next to the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (with the enviable name

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  , you’ll need to take a fitness assessment as part of your application ... program at MIT, and I myself got to know the program a little as their ... before I came to MIT (not even as something done at other schools), but

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  (understandably) you guys say "Look! You need X, Y, and Z to get into MIT!" To ... it however you like. So when a parent says to me, "Why does HYPSM ... Some parents wrote to me and asked me to contribute my opinions to a

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  significantly, you'll also need things to eat. My suggestion: stock up before the ... to expire until much later in the day. In the immortal words of Bachman ... centimeter of precipitation - enough to finely coat the Earth's surface with a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  ! This is how it's going to be. Prof Belcher's schedule does not permit ... picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to this I'd have definitely had a freak-out or two before going to my only

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  true that most actions are reversible and sometimes you just need to live ... corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long ... with picking the best possible version of myself to become - deciding on

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  excited to be taking, a student that will never need to take another GIR. I ... cheater for 1) being a senior and having more emotional things to say and 2 ... coffee when I got home so I might have been able to post mine first, but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  . Everyone said: you need to demonstrate that you are really serious about ... perfectly clear in my head that I both wanted and needed to go back to the ... needed - I responded to the other programs declining their offers, then

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  though I definitely didn’t need to invest so much time and energy in it, I ... once) but it was hard to spend much time with as many people as I’d hoped ... they need to run the events, and making sure that things actually happen

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  minimum needed to pass your classes, usually resulting from MIT's pass ... the first day said “everyone knows that you need to pre-register if you ... interesting! I feel like I learn so much more so much faster when I get to work

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  writing major requirements, and I only need to take one. On the other hand, I also need to get into at least one, and some of the classes have ... Internet? 11:14 AM: Someone walks up to the window, jiggles the door handle

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  , and I want to show you how awesome that can be. Once a semester we go ... here at MIT. AROTC allows you to be pretty flexible in how involved you ... training), one military class, and one leadership lab. But I'm not here to

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  since I don't want this to become fixated on numbers. Once again, GPA ... year with a positive net worth of at least $1500. - I just need to save ... resolutions I couldn't accomplish due to the pandemic, but since the world has

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  do for the project. But I need to accept that it would take too much ... video creators sharing various approaches to being more productive, having ... , and can easily spend an hour watching videos about how not to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  personal enthusiasm levels inversely proportional to the temperature, though this kind of breaks down once it gets below 0, because I kind of like to ... ’m from Michigan, so Boston cold is still no big deal. To be honest, if it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009