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• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  out trying to understand how everything works and in what ways you can ... 's hard to imagine a simpler mechanism. And yet, to get that simple took an ... that in engineering, it's not that difficult to design individual

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  Chinese before coming to MIT.) How did you first become interested in the ... popped up and started speaking to my friend in Chinese. I hardly even got ... came to America from China in 2000, having just finished second grade

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  like it here, I might have to get the application in.”  WISE and fly-ins ... they were called fly-ins and applied to several. Daymé heard about WISE ... was the first fly-in she applied to.  Daymé had her heart set on MIT

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  awesome time to be in, at, and around MIT. There's all kinds of art ... MIT150 art around campus seems to be in white. Could we have had some ... generally happy in the media lab: Har, har. Anyway, back to the matter at

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  existed. I had never known anyone to compete in any of them, or even ... consider applying to American colleges in general and MIT specifically, if ... , who placed third in the world at IOI and will be arriving at MIT to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  ]\tau[/latex] (the Greek letter tau, usually pronounced to rhyme with how but some ... every circle’s circumference to its diameter is exactly pi: in other words ... [/latex] gets at an even more fundamental relationship that is present in circles

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  who are brave enough to live in the dorms with your kids! You'll get a ... meetings. Not complaining, just want to get the facts straight so that we can ... thinking about a career in medicine? This would be a good one to attend. 12

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  science. Mine was the type of school in which women were encouraged to take ... surprised to see Elizabeth named GEL ‘11 class leader for next semester! In ... answer, unfortunately, in 2010. While in a cab going to the airport from

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  students in the winter -- once you get to the Infinite in the winter, you ... Since it's summer tour season and my path to work keeps getting ... like a tourist" guide is not to stand around like a moo cow in front of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  may want to do in the future. Rule No. 1 Don't be a afraid to put ... field you are interested in, went to the grad school you are looking at ... looking at. The MIT connection is a great way to find an in. You have to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  ? how do these expectations get in the way of appreciating things for what ... goal is to make a community for students to get creative outside of ... together, ran activities, learned together, and met weekly to check in. I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  committee people talking about what was going to be in their fall budgets. UA ... most of the time, but the bright spot is that I get to see cool people at ... articles. You'll just have to wait until the magazine gets published to hear

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  old are my kittens dammit" "How do you get kittens to sleep at night and ... and in exasperation had gone to stop & shop and purchased her first ... CT in the middle of the summer to pick up the kittens. Chris came w/ me

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  backpack for a week Try to get over your fear of how ugly the titans are and ... mine is make a plan to lessen that 😌 Try out every pen in your house and ... you haven’t talked to in a while Wake up early and watch the sunrise

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Things We Don’t Remember Enough About each other

  

  can get in the way of relationship-building, but here are three things I ... In any given school year or work week, there is so much we can stress ... relationships we have or can have in our lives should be a means of support rather

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  months on campus before getting kicked off due to the pandemic. now i ... 't waste their time on! how the hell did i get here? why do i have any ... discusses the sense of purgatory i feel in this post. some '22s i've spoken to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  really just in here to see how many of you will even read the post before ... enough to get in before you checked online, and your friends and family all ... it 5.03 these days) ever get shortened to "Inorgo"? I hope not, because

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  dorms, it can be hard for freshmen to get singles, since upperclassmen get ... time can lead to frozen pipes. Don't eat in your room – Snacks might be ... really weird when you get home in the evening. Close the door – I live in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  MIT in general, I knew I had to get cracking on this list. The ... ’s founder! The IAB gets together about quarterly to talk about how the program ... Fenway Park, home to the Red Sox. In front of me is more of the Back Bay

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  flexibility in choosing your classes; you get to pick six electives from any of ... convince your GRT to get you a cat or dog and keep it in their apartment ... I wrote this in pieces - from Cambridge to San Diego, the train from

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008