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• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  ) with these instead of Arabic numerals. If you don't know them, the party ... found funny without knowing why. Learn how to print from a non ... ways) to print. Escape this terrible fate!! I imagine IS&T explains

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  -making it up! During Eye-A-Piece, we don't have our favorite place to eat. So ... . So i think i'm done now. here's a picture show i thought was funny ... Part of the Up-Goer-Five Game. This Eye-A-Piece, I did a lot of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  meditating nearby, so now I’m working to a soundtrack of sad instrumental music ... rambling into the void. Sometimes I feel pretty lonely because a) I don’t ... been read"]“we made mice poop with lasers.” [/annotation] I also didn’t

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  even if I hadn’t, well, I’m a freshman! Under the pass/no record system ... Linguistics, this test doesn’t deserve the label “quiz,” because it’s a full ... , having four tests in the space of about a week was pretty common, and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  I'm finally done done done with the MCAT, and my summer has definitely gotten a facelift :) I took the test this past Friday, and I ... , trying out my new bike, spending time with friends, and watching a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  In response to a request from a current applicant, I'm proud to present to you a virtual tour of some of MIT's machine shops. As you can ... , ...and a waterjet? Don't get me wrong, waterjets are awesome (they spray

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  's original vision. I'm a big believer in finding something that works and ... its power. So this year, the blogs aren't tucked away in a hidden ... the right path. After a year of trying to find that path, I can't tell

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  promise. So I decided I wanted a pet fish, ergo my trip to PetCo. I don't ... get a prize. I'll think of something creative. Don't worry. Fish are ... closest mall to campus; a free shuttle leaves from Kendall square about

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  I’m giving feedback or just sending my opinions into a black box. We ... performance within a group. Now I understand how professors feel. I couldn’t ... beginning of the ELL, we asked for a volunteer. We didn’t give any background

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  creativity, anyone can set a world record! But I wasn't here just to relax, so ... places like this are just a half-hour T ride away. The world is a big place; it'd be a shame if I didn't explore as much of it as I can.

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  The last time I wrote a post as I was flying at some undetermined altitude over some undetermined state in the Midwest. I’m now writing, I can ... ,998 feet*. I hate you, technology. But sometimes you are a cool cat. I spent

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  multimeter in my backpack. Why wouldn't you have a multimeter in your backpack ... enough to contribute a mural of my own, and then it doesn’t happen and I ... I live on the top floor of a small pile of donuts named Random Hall

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  Month), because even if you don’t finish a novel, you still were pushed to ... There comes a time in everyone's MIT experience, from the application ... housemasters' dogs (confession: I'm not entirely sure whether the dogs have

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  the tests' five-point scale. His take-away: Don't be a grade ... during a class barbecue to celebrate the success of their woodworking ... , too, with a penchant for chess and crossword puzzles. He's headed to MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  depressive symptoms haven't come up for months now, I said. I'm genuinely ... cram. "Work isn't like that. I don't know when I can take a break, or ... time. But in the grand scheme of things, maybe it wasn't a lot of time

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  even when I wasn't designing the experiments I had a lot of freedom ... A few entries back, Lena asked "How did you get the job in the lab ... professors whose work looked interesting, including my resume and a short cover

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  Hi. I’m Andi. I’m twenty years old and already a pigeon addict. It ... .” Initially, I knew better than to trust a book written by a gas company. I ... eyes, took a deep breath, and flipped to a random page. Little did I know

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  , how I'm going to China for a week over the summer, how sometimes I feel AWESOME to be here, and sometimes I'm just plain confused about what to do ... Yesterday, (or was it a few days ago?) I reached into a pocket in my

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  conference on sustainable energy with NREL, and I'm an undergrad so I didn't ... hand and Fire Viper on the right hand--it's way better than a Fireball ... fats, the carbohydrates (A) and amino acids (B) react to form some crazy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  necessary; it all comes down to your reasoning, which is I'm happy to say is a ... international mail always seems a bit unreliable, and I ain't heard anything back ... enrollment form a few weeks ago, and I haven't gotten anything back yet, so I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006