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• 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 / IAP

  Starting 2012 on a volcanic island bonfire! but no eruptions yet [photo-heavy]

  

  were about to find out how Jeju does New Years'. (I apologize in advance ... new experiences may come later, but for now, let's not get lost in ... First time in a foreign country - the pace at which new things are

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  pens for bright kids to go four years reveling in how bright they are ... 's house in Kentucky as I write this. Thanks to the people who wished me good ... process. I've made some effort to keep up with current events in Admissions

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• 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
• 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

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  beavers. Our Harry Potter friends are looking on in amazement as to what ... members who must apply to their departments in order to lecture, and the ... subject exceedingly well. In preparation for these supervisions, you are to

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• 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 / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  general. Biology at MIT (what? why? how?) + cool stuff going on in biology rn (get excited) The grad school post. How applying to grad ... retrospective of all the times I've failed since getting to MIT. This one would be

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  some variation of “What did you do in high school to get into MIT ... definitely were not secretly fantasizing about getting into MIT in order to ... not being in a music department We went to an art school for 9th and 10

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  pictures, so I guess I'll start to "show, not tell." (Pwahaha. How many of ... Qichen and Alex pretended to look at something in the sky, while I watched ... Cooper and decided to take a picture with it. How prefrosh of us, right

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  ="77071" /] Finally, I tried to be artistic in how I expressed myself through my clothes ... the spring really proved to me how much I had grown as a student in ... published at the end of IAP, a blog on how I’m not graduating this year to be

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  second degree in physics because I want to get a PhD in physics after I ... advice on how to succeed here.” I still feel that way. But I didn’t blog ... apply to grad school, there’ll be a glaring “D” in my Fall 2007 semester

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 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 / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  join a special program to study in France and get a side of buttery ... the secret recipe to get into MIT. Here it goes. Check off 4 out of 5 ... ’s easy to zoom in so closely on what you do that you never stop and wonder

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  remember how to write in cursive anymore, and don't know how I managed it ... You know, a while ago, Mitra did an entry on how to write a winning MIT application essay. I figure it's getting to be around crunch time

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  . How does one go about studying? The general recipe is to just lock ... to answer in three hours. Goodie! I've decided to catalogue my studying experience for you today so that you can get a sense of what you may get to go

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  of Framingham, Massachusetts. And get this: we came in third place ... went absolutely nuts over, and I'm so glad to finally have enough time to blog about it. If, for some reason, you don't like following links to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  me incredibly giddy knowing that I get to live in the house with ... privilege of meeting and seeing how some people won't even bother getting to ... conversations around diversity and what it means to be in a sorority and how its

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  Three weeks ago in 6.009 (Fundamentals of Programming), we had to ... to implement takes in any text file and spits out a list of tuples of ... use most frequently in our day to day lives?! We immediately thought of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  enough to get Jeremy '09 in our suite this year, who idolizes Mike Short ... emulated NES games, and hooked it up to speakers in the bathroom. He then put ... underneath the speaker on the right. Because sometimes, in between learning how

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005