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• Blog / How to MIT

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  key components to any good game. You need not excel in all areas, but you must adequately balance or excel in at least one to be "successful ... players who start wit better/worse cards? Additionally, how am I going to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  . When you get hungry, head to the Quincy Market (largest food hall in New ... to a big city. It only takes 10 minutes to get downtown from East ... the ocean. In the summer, there are even more reasons to leave the MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  in order of importance if you don't have time to answer them all. It ... UROP in the Plasma and Fusion Center writing scripts to decipher NASA ... . After one month, I started to think in MATLAB instead of in English, but

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  moment's breath to stop and listen in the 10 minutes between classes, and ... in which to evaluate Amount of Work Input vs. Grade Output. There ... diagrams at 2 AM in the morning*. I went to the office hours of multiple TA

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  don't know how to cross streets in the city, but I do know how to get ... comfortable enough to actually fall asleep. A fifteen-minute nap in Hayden can give me enough alertness to get me through the rest of my day... plus it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  didn't get back to campus until quarter til 11. I mean, come on. Anyway ... mention them in an entry(Adelaide '09 and Meara '09). Hell, people even get ... all day to tell me, because she knew I was involved in FIRST in high

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  to just trying to find time to rest but really not...getting any. This ... get extremley red and I would scratch it to the point where my skin ... campus living at MIT, I would try to never study in Random. I found it was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  : "How important is it to have a math class in your senior schedule? Our ... courses are on par with the AP curriculum. How would I get that across in my ... , November 1. I'd like to field some of your last minute questions here in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  managed to blog. Use his feedback page to send him get well wishes! Daniel ... Class of 2009 =) *How to GAMIT defines punt: punt - (1) v.t. To determine after analytical deliberation not to do something often academic in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We’re #1! What's the emoticon for oversize foam hand?

  

  few theories as to why we elbowed our way to the top of the list: OpenCourseWare: MIT courses for free on the web. What's not to love about ... of the Institute, so you might want to check out the MIT Blogroll

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Mailing Tomorrow; Yo-Yo Tonight Verify your MyMIT username and password.

  

  After a week of checking, double checking, and checking-to-the-nth, we are ready to mail decision letters tomorrow, and post decisions online on Saturday. I want to urge you one final time: if you have not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  .   4   I have a quote and poem to share. quote "In the ... content warning: mental health, trauma 1   I've been in a funk. A deep funk. It took me awhile to notice. A few long months

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Bill Gates It looks like you're trying to inspire philanthropy...

  

  examples of how MIT students are already involved in making the world a ... the Best Way to Make a Difference. Sadly I was unable to get him to ... Bill Gates was on campus today to speak about the need for innovation

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer App Is Live For current college students hoping to enter MIT in the Spring of 2013

  

  entry in the Fall of 2013. To enter MIT as a transfer student, you ... be another cycle in the Spring with a February 15 deadline.) There is no online application for MIT transfer. To apply, you should print

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  Irving Berlin and Abby Lincoln, to name two. I liked how she was extremely comfortable performing in front of a group [kind of to be expected] but more ... off of jazz. It really made me want to get back into music; I've played

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  occasionally law school, looking for places to live in their new found location ... . I have never regretted my decision to take a year off and study in ... the whole “I took a year to study in China, but I studied Chinese, so it

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT (alternatively "How To GAMIT" or "HoToGAMIT"). Since you're reading blogs of MIT ... sometimes use (a small selection from How To GAMIT's glossary)...  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  distracted than in AP Bio, and I myself more buckled down to memorize details. But speaking of which, I think I’m even more excited to see how MIT does ... incorporated, because I’m more interested in how the evolving art world impacts

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  have now are like night and day in comparison to the past. they know how ... know how to lose friends with grace. in a way, i am thankful for you ... tw suicide mention and angst!! to the skeletons in my closet

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  posts, which only made me more nervous and sure that I would never get in ... onto his website to watch his mailbox for the arrival of a big, beautiful ... offer even if I did get in (clearly this was just an ill-planned coping

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006