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• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  important: music, and how I listen to far too much of it. ...what?! I'm not ... that said, go have a listen to Modest Mouse's new album, We Were Dead ... , and go form your own opinion instead. How many bands can last in the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  what happens. See how I add one more item to the list and it collapses and buries me underneath it. How I struggle to find oxygen in this ... roses that have decided to latch their roots onto me, but in the process

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  classmates out when they were being sexist in my group project. I learnt how to ... give the usual spiel about how disillusioning it is to detach yourself from everything you have ever known and loved and to settle into a new

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  .  Even better, there is no standardized system for determining who gets to ... ’re notified of whether you have a spot in that class are subject to the whim of ... something related to course scheduling. In many of these instances, had I not

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  my class D-Lab: Design for Scale, we had to get welding trained in ... how to improve the litter removal process from highways. After a ton of ... make it to every game and most of the practices to support my team in any

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  project because the How To Food admissions blogs functioned as prior art and ... (Random, East Campus, MacGregor, New House). In these dorms, students have ... -for-yourself communities, including some of the cultural houses in New House and some FSILGs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  read purely for pleasure, time to learn a new language, adventures in the mountains of Colorado and even time to be bored, it is nice to get back to my ... love to be in. The summer provides opportunities to learn how to navigate

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  found funny without knowing why. Learn how to print from a non-Athena computer -- Sadly, I must admit that I never learned how to print from my PC ... trekking to an Athena cluster in the middle of the snowy night (uphill both

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  'm Vietnamese, would you tell me about how to get a scholarship from MIT?" Hi Nam ... 's just an accepted social norm that in college people really want to get to ... tests i have to give to get admission in b.tech in computers." As far as

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  Physics of Living Systems in brand new Technology Square next to MIT in ... , almost directly beneath the Citgo sign. A brownie in a mug! I'll have to ... property to keep track of how composites containing carbon nanotubes hold up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  ,[/annotation] in addition to the new stress of an unexpected return to family life ... student with some close friends at Harvard! In Part 1, I discussed how cross ... we met. In this post, I describe how we've stayed in contact (and even

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  "gerrymandering" means*. (okay, I also wanted to live in the most Democratic Congressional district in the nation according to the Cook PVI index, which is NY ... bit strange to realize that most of the people in my class had taken a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  it was in high school or college. I get them several times a year. Over the years, I've tried a lot of remedies to ease the pain. Here is how ... For the last several years, I've been getting canker sores around the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  can't believe how assertive I was, how eager I was to experience new things that I'd charge into new situations blindly, how willing to meet new ... otherworldly...I can't imagine reading at this point in time; I managed to get

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  also don’t get to randomly see students I know in the hall. I also miss ... well share my advice here for those who won’t get to hear it in the ... it makes me sad that I won’t get to deliver this advice to you in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  told her how to log in. And listened to her read the letter. And ... get in: Welcome to MIT! Celebrate with your family and friends - and ... a good ten minutes, I decided to call home and get my mom to check for

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  how hard MIT is going to be? Do you think they're scared to get to ... way to get more mattresses than that. I beg to differ. In a few days ... generally going out of our minds trying to get things done. This is ok though

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  thought to myself: easy! If I was able to get 5s on my APs and As in my ... will offer advice on how to succeed, unless you’re me, in which case they ... live with the fact that most things aren’t going to turn out how you

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  enjoying the class and like how it kind of naturally allows me to set time ... an exercise in building up a gradual picture of how people answer questions about how people live and what matters to them: through asking

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Love Potion No. 9 roses are #FF0000violets are #0000FF

  

  In celebration of today's "holiday," I decided it would make sense to ... students, it's not hard to meet new people. With dating and the like, I don ... N4 O2 (sorry, I can't get subscripts to work) Well, I'm off to

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2006