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• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  ’t inherent, in that, it was due to things everyone else can pretty easily do ... people. Have faith that most people (especially around MIT as far as I can ... made me feel very welcome. Now, I can’t believe I’ve only known them for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  decide. Early action single-choice (Yale) means you can only apply early to one school, but at MIT you can apply early to multiple schools (just, you know, not Yale). Brown is Early Decision, meaning you can only apply

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  , but we’ll get the closest approximation that we can in these times. I ... room but I can’t re-create the inexplicable external pressure of being ... , to not waste energy trying to be likeable. I spent a lot of time pre

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  email me and I can try to get you in contact ^_^)     ... stopped saying, “You can do everything you put your mind to!” and instead ... first things I learned as a student here is that you can’t be good at

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  though the class was three months long, the only thing I can remember was ... , and, to be honest, I wasn’t even interested. You can therefore ... because of cool space applications. The idea of black holes and dark energy

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  challenging. I can tell you when I came to MIT, I knew that this place was going ... situation. Sometimes at first glance, a problem set can seem intimidating ... say "I'm done." So how can all this be fun? Response 1. You never do a

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  12 mv^2[/latex] is the kinetic energy [latex]E_k[/latex] possessed by ... ]v[/latex]. [latex]E_s = \frac12 k (\Delta x) ^2[/latex] is the potential energy [latex ... together, we can get the area of the circle! But what’s the area of one of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  ; white is the sum of all the colors, and all colors can be described by ... = White Cyan + Red = White Magenta + Green = White These can be rearranged ... to talk about... How light works Light can be thought of as a wave

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can my school use Naviance?

  -specific recommendation form. On the form, recommenders can indicate if they would like to
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  crazy! Oh, they have no weakness, except for a rock that you can’t find on ... the Great Depression, he was born out of a need for a hero. But I can ... accelerator, Robbie Baldwin receives the power to reflect kinetic energy. His

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  place to explore! So you can discover your interests!” But I have grown to ... out, but luckily, you can always switch jobs and that it is worth it to ... . I became a Campus Ambassador for Monster Energy! I came out as trans

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  just had the energy.” “What inspired you to make a pancake 3D printer ... one item per day (that I can’t find until weeks later) and eat whenever ... " align="aligncenter" width="768"] you can never go wrong with soy sauce

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  that since I can’t figure out what I want to do with my life, I’m going ... building construction plan, how can the decisions made by the owner and ... like a great big puzzle, and one where I can’t ever see all the pieces at

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  microcontrollers. You can never escape those hardy Arduinos! One afternoon, I quickly ... 'atar (dried thyme), refreshing tomatoes and cucumbers and citrus—I can still ... energy. Another afternoon, we got a private tour of the Palestinian Museum

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  of the benefits of getting sophomore standing is that you can get this ... this class (you can see a ball rolling down a ramp in mechanics, but you can’t see an electron whizzing around in space in E&M), but it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  energy, and the rest of the things that come easily are mostly Internet ... progress, creates a ceiling of satisfaction for working women that they can ... that I can never articulate very well. Sometimes coming to MIT feels a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  brother, the most stubbornly rational person i know--but of course you can ... bookstore and flip through some finance books this weekend, so that I can at ... when working, I feel like I am wasting time. I miss the manic energy of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  wonder what I'm still doing here. It's true, what am I doing here?. I can ... has a talent for solving problems, and I can't remember a time when he ... spark of energy driven by passion that I've come to see in so many of my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  's Reuse-Housing, where people can look for houses or roommates; there's Reuse-Ask, where people can ask for things others might have that they'd be willing to park with; and there's Reuse-Sell, where people can try

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  online forums, you can't help but wonder at your chances of getting into ... . Accordingly, more and more people believe that money can resolve all problems ... that you can't get into college on your own? One value I hold higher

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009