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• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  how to give an honest assessment of myself is probably one of the most ... burned the midnight oil already, you’ll get to hear a couple of my thoughts ... times over winter break, but I wasn’t particularly getting anywhere. In

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• 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 / 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 / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  students. In reality, however, it's just an excuse for me to advertise this ... week of orientation, I had to get out my cell phone all the time to give ... might want to look into getting a new area code or a different carrier

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  State on my full scholarship, she was planning to get a pool in the ... , are you really getting married???? (in reference to Ben's dating post ... . Anonymous asked, do you have any advice on how to get to know professors? it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  work and how physical stimuli get transformed into signals in the nervous ... procedures (e.g. "How would you separate sodium and potassium current in an ... is language unique to humans; why are there many languages; how do

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  classes included "How to Accessorize/Dress for Success," "How to Tell ... to my left or right, etc.). In the photo, Mitra is showing off the ... headed over to the European Career Fair, for students interested in working

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• 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 / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  any man would do in this situation. It was time to get me some cookies ... , though. Long in advance, my father had planned to come up to MIT that same ... line for hours for milk, to enjoy a weekend in the beautiful New England

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  rest stayed black. I went to get the screen repaired. This took going to ... about ancient in terms of repairs. The first shop I went to didn’t have a ... chatted with another customer while waiting for him to get back.   

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  didn't even get in on the first try. I had to wait until COVID-19 expanded the program for me in order to get in. And so that's why when I look ... pressure of having a class in order to get things done. Online classes don

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Just 5 Days Left! Mystery Hunt begins in 5 days.

  

  Until Mystery Hunt 2006!!! Here's a little puzzle to get you ... cannibals and put to the following challenge: Each shall get one hat of either black or white (unbeknownst to them). Then, they will be asked in

  • by Bryan
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  all-nighters to get my college applications in, and neither should you ... about three weeks – I’d plug it in, but the battery wouldn’t begin to ... powerful abilities (pun intended). After fruitlessly trying to get the thing

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  , so I will skip to after the test, when I had my score in hand and began ... I used to wander there. In the middle of the city. Late at night. By myself. Once, at 11 PM, I called one of my best friends at home in Ohio to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• 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 / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  not in Intel has the same grades and apply to MIT, whose likely to get in? Do I have a chance to get into MIT considering the fact that I will ... applying to MIT in the fall and was wondering how many SAT II tests I must

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  purchase meal tickets and how to get to Lobby 10, and shuffling through ... weaved through the horde of students in the Infinite to get to lobby 10 ... questions to let everyone else in the class know how smart they are. They

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible

  

  to write a final installment in our Visual Arts @ MIT series. In the ... to learn and practice these things at MIT. Now, in this post we want to wrap up by providing a bigger picture. When we entered MIT in our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  6.073 (officially CMS.611) are hard to get in without an affiliation ... and in other arenas. I'm looking ahead to next summer to maybe get an ... about how awesome my classes are and how excited I am to be in them :)

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  lot of what I was looking forward to in college.   freshman year  As a ... to keep pursuing existing interests in computer science, while seeking ... lol” kind of way, since one of the first things I had to get used to at

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023