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• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  , coming to you blogged from the Athena cluster in Building 12. While your usual author is at home in H-burg, I get to tell you about my recent ... weeks ago, and decided to see how big of a fire he and his step-brother-in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  you get to know  Now I’m in a big city. I don’t go out into Boston as ... learn, and there are many cool MechE classes I won't be able to fit in to ... , just from talking to people, but I know so little about the programs in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  crashed about two minutes in. I didn't get back to my dorm till 7:55pm ... forth between lab, eating lunch in 5 mins, barely making it to the dining ... . We had a microquiz in 6.0001 (Introduction to Python) that I didn

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  occasion as any to get something out into the world. As I started writing ... delivery I ordered to arrive. The sun was out today, fully, in a way it hasn ... year I get [annotation note="on the ground, in my general vicinity

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• 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 / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  fully to one school, while still hoping to get in elsewhere and with ... My grandfather used to tell a "story" about how when kids came home ... September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  my vacation photos. In this case, getting the right answer took two ... .mit.edu. In addition to slacking on email (in order to spend more time on ... applicants? I know it says you are required to live on campus in one of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  also give talks in class, and get lots of individualized feedback to ... faculty in 1997, and prior to that was a faculty member at UCLA and Harvard ... Research Award. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  more difficult to actually find the time to learn how to integrate sec^3 ... something all of the time. One thing that's vital to learn how to do is to ... 've been up till 3 AM in the Hayden Library (an awesome place to study, by

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  dragged to watching matches I wasn't interested in, and I'd get stern talks ... angle it to hit the ball in the right position, how you'd have to keep ... You learn how to navigate MIT. It’s inevitable. After you stay here

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• 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 / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  supportive. How did she know that we weren't going to win? In the end, though ... Today I wanted to thank a very special person in my life, someone who ... surprising number of freshmen did not know how to do these things...o_o” Mom

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  recently, to get a small phone to use while in Nigeria. It always pulses with ... grew so small. I walked in circles and circles, sick to my stomach. Later ... with whom to catch up. But in the face of this blast, I seemed to float

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  to this concept in high school,” and my brain cried out (silently, of ... down a list of things to remember. Things that, in an ideal world, we ... live stream video with cool guest hosts to entertain everybody in the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  someone to just know me already and get past all of that and exist in a way ... sneaking out of classrooms, sitting next to each other at lunch in between ... across to the other side of the country. I've been in love before, where

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  occasionally want to get out and see the world. In the last year and a half, MIT ... is still going on in lots of places about how to make the computers ... to young'uns about what an awesome opportunity they have in VI-A. You

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  . Back in the fall of 1996 (we had to wait until we were on campus to get ... you to get yourself a Kerberos Identity/Athena username. What will this ... task is to choose a username for yourself. Yes, MIT believes in letting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  sometime tomorrow (check Matt's post for the details) to get your essays in ... might also know, as I gave away some spoilers. Brought to you just in ... behind that is fairly simple. You get to write about yourself! You're not

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  work. Most people know how to use Sheets, anyway. Plus, it's in your ... to shit; in the beginning, I'd created a beautiful cherry blossom theme ... random shit to keep track of, but honestly, I had so much going on in high

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  questions 4 u about MIT but had to get in gear and out the door. btw I am so ... . Then, somewhere in between taking campus tours and discussing how to ... you're a student. You get to live in a dorm (your assignment from the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006