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• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  quick post to check in and say happy tuesday. it's 52 degrees and ... on how the internet isn't all it's hyped up to be. excerpt from the ... accompanied by the irresistible urge to enlist Silicon Valley start-ups in the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  have fun! With this reality in mind, I went to Princeton University with ... ,000. It is the fourth oldest university, chartered in 1746, compared to MIT ... mtvU. He deferred for a year to be in Andrew Lippas' Broadway-bound A

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  elaborate ruse to get me off campus. In a very "ahhh you got me!" wag of the ... .01 forces you to really get what's going on, a quick scouring of the formula ... Calculus to the three space world we live in. Covering everything from

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  beautiful[/caption] learned how to make my own network graphs! - i really ... how to use [annotation note="this graphing software that's literally ... figuring out how to host this was an exercise within itself. i definitely

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  and I told him that for once in my time at MIT, I want to be good at something, to have my niche. I've been struggling a lot in finding my place ... in the mirror and I see my accomplishments. I think of how far I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!

  

  -athletes to get their take on sports at MIT and the current 2023 fall season ... -athlete because it is hard to find the friendships and bonds you get with your ... though we lost 0-8 (cry), it was so fun to go on a road trip and stay in a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 15, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  to not only get involved in things, but to get good. Don’t worry ... , they also get to learn from other students. In fact, my specific friend ... you get to MIT, you’ll have had about eighteen years (or less for

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  remember, in my last post I asked for people to provide me with MIT ... have the same question. It can be intimidating to go alone to a new place ... specifically how I met or befriended the friend (in many other cases, I either

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and ... semester, of how to start as a novice and build up your expertise in a given ... delays in getting these issues resolved in comparison to the experienced

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  of events are often blessings in disguise. friends joining new groups can be a good way for you to meet new people, having acquaintances with ... ? or was it taught to them, and if so, when and how and by whom? i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  blog post by Anna H. ‘14 called How to get a UROP that goes further into ... 's exactly what it sounds like. Undergrads get to work with professors, Ph ... that MIT offers to their undergrads. However, getting research faculty to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  trip to get fruit snacks from the vending machine. Bryan runs into friend ... I was in lab on June 9. Welcome to graduate school! (I actually chose ... learning how to cook and clean and all of the other skills required of

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  : After a little while, people started to get restless. Being locked in an ... of sweat trying to get over this ridiculous cold-flu-thing - let's just ... you having to get up. You forget that this is an institute of world

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  In an engineering class with a lecture format, you get to learn a lot ... . In the other two sections we learn how to draw and use CAD, and ... to get the creative juices flowing, and in the real world it's really

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  basic getting-to-know-you questions. Here are some things to keep in mind ... , these were all questions that were nice to have answered in advance, but ... preparing, think about why you did the things you did in high school and how

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  need to go back to get the card made in the card machine."]half a Harvard ... from MIT. I’m slowly getting ready to go back to the firehose; I’ll be on ... ’m excited to finally move in. I’m especially excited to be a blogger for the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  us in the Admissions Office the weekend is more about getting ready for ... the weekend it makes sense for me to offer some tips about how you can ... same questions that students will. That said, it's important to check in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  unstructured decompression sequence in my 2019 IAP and loved it. (I also tried to ... loved getting to know over the course of IAP! Maya and I worked together ... restaurant. It was challenging to get onboarded, learn background information

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  . According to a recent New York Times blog titled "The Rise of the Toilet ... aware of this problem in my life until our trip to Seoul in my last week ... showed me...it might be time to pencil in some downtime. Although the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with ... Muthukrishna, just graduated and is off to get his PhD. He helped catch me up to ... phone, I suffered through five minutes trying not to burst out laughing in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024