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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  ! how exciting). Adam and I went out to dinner, shopped on Newbury Street (we're going to the Bahamas this summer, and I needed a new bathing suit ... donate our unsellable textbooks to schoolchildren in Africa. (I have to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  'll post more information about how to get involved with birthright in the ... ended, but I'd like to sum things up in one post and just get it all out ... Propulsions Laboratory over in Pasadena, and I get to see Caltech and Los

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• 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 / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  figuring out how exactly to word the spec I’m writing. It’s easy to get in ... major upsides No Rent - I get to live at my parents’ house for exactly ... company email. Pull up the spec that I need to work on. 8:40 AM- I get lost

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• 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 / Hacks

  An Olympic Hack Floating rings above Brigg's Field?

  

  Upon entering MIT, every freshman gets a list of "101 Things To Do ... all exercise some common sense. And so, walking back to my new dorm ... have their own lengthy Wikipedia page, in addition to a chronology at

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • February 9, 2014
• 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 / 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

  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 / 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

  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 / 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

  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 / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  vignettes of this to communicate how diverse this campus truly is. I'll spare you the details of how challenging it was to produce a documentary on a ... brings the world to your doorstep. You can meet a lot of new people, try

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• 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

  “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