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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  that I read in middle school. The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin. Basically, the book is about a bunch of strangers coming together to live in ... . 3. Get to the Hatch Shell early and get a wristband for the night

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  much to say in this entry other than to give a brief update of how my ... yesterday when I was still sitting in 8.01, worrying about understanding how ... , with medical school acceptances in hand, ready to begin the next chapter

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  ways in the snow to get to the Institute back then. After a stint in ... me, I'm trying to get everyone so familiar with what scientists and engineers do that they won't have to ask! I graduated from MIT in aeronautics

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  will be sure to get the interview report. Midyear Report: I know that ... you to work on your MIT application in the meantime. Working on the MIT ... [Editor's note in 2017: This post contains outdated contact

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  .5 years of getting my ass handed to me academically in undergrad. Maybe that ... portfolio enough by the end of this year to get a research job in industry ... floating in sludge, and that every amount of work I do actually get done

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  students will have taken an idea from nothing more than a sketch on paper to a real life product. This course is a FANTASTIC opportunity to get to ... when they present. Most importantly though, they know how to have fun

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  world, and getting everyone in one place will involve significantly more ... to, especially when only two others in my close friend group are moving to New York City with me. there's also the fact that I'll be in Africa

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully prepared to entrust my productivity to a flaky Wi-Fi connection. Once I got ... app essay drafts - is on Google Drive. I am now drafting this in a .txt

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  polished in interviews, now that I've experienced enough of them to have an ... in the end they want to know the same things: who you are as a person, and how that will fit in with the company. (It's actually pretty similar

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Liveblog from Apple Store I copy Paul, 3 hours later.

  

  power to decide whether you will stay in them or not. This does not necessarily apply to McCormick, I'm not sure exactly how that works. 3) Your current roommate is also temporary, although you will get a chance to keep

  • by Snively '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  , and can easily spend an hour watching videos about how not to ... ="ugh I love Rowena sm, I even went to a meetup with her in pre-covid times ... largely about self-acceptance in general, what particularly stuck out to me

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  Open House In the afternoon leading up to the much-anticipated SONIC ... was early, I still wasn’t able to get a seat to the standing ... across the lobby to the Thomas Tull Concert Hall to check in on the MIT

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  to stop doing, which I'll get to in a bit). One thing I've learned ... -out refers specifically to phenomena in the occupational context and should not be applied to describe experiences in other areas of life.” - 11th

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  modest reduction in room size, every 6 people in the dorm get a full ... 's it. It's rare for any freshman to live in Burton-Conner for more than two weeks without hearing exactly how to prevent a catastrophe: "Close

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  us how to solve problems using Matlab- the lectures provide the ... before every lecture (1.5 hrs MW), so I opt to listen in and annotate those ... happened to be leading up to our first exam, which we’re allowed to bring in

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  -deception.' 'How can a man live in perfect harmony?' To which YISUN replied, 'Non ... feelings; it's how I came to the word mudita, for example. In France, the ... piece despite being published in 1948. “They do say,” Mr. Adams said to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  how to get to it is really satisfying. Additionally, I like the two ... ones. If you think about it, math is how you get your WALL-E's, your HAL ... and how it works, I've found it difficult to figure out how to use that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / Events

  What’s on your mind? As for me, my hair feels normal again.

  

  questions about MIT, about life here, about how to survive day-to-day, about how to make the most of your college experience?  What are your burning ... you'd like to see us bloggers clarify or explore in future posts

  • by Piper '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  sure to bring to MIT or to buy as soon as you get here. I conducted a ... outlets to any location in your room. For some reason the outlet overlords ... go a long way in helping you set up your room exactly how you want it

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• 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