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• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  down to the great exercise that is [annotation note="which involves a lot ... than starting. In a lot of ways, getting back into lifting feels a lot ... at square one, but I’m not. I feel like I’m getting back to where I was

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  Ben Jones, The Blogfather, started the MIT Blogs in 2004. The idea behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. MIT was one of the first universities to have
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  living in my thoughts a lot and i'm not sure how to write about it in a ... comfort in it once i got ahold of my senses again and remembered how to ... 't include me in their follow forever. in a way, it was comforting to just read

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  really lovely way to keep in touch. Once you get over the activation energy ... . The benefits are numerous:  You get to hang out in the admissions ... . Did I mention the snack palace?  You get to hang out in the admissions

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  shower. Wait for it to warm up. Get in the shower. Shower. Get out ... to process STEM-related content in the mornings than at night. Doing ... steps. Get up. Grab a change of clothes. Wait for the shower to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  failing to know how the people around you are really doing. In the past few ... lives. We see that one kid that sits behind us in lecture. And to all of ... things are going great. I want to hear about that essay you finally

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  Get Your Wii On. A Dome Hack!!!

  

  In honor of the release of the Nintendo Wii the Great Dome found ... back to one of my favorite video games from when I was a kid, Zelda! The ... Triforce was created by three Goddesses to serve as a symbol of their sacred

  • by Bryan
  • November 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  important in education and how it has tried to build that into a lasting ... the SATs today. I remember how much it sucked to sit in a room for ... to get back to reading, and hope you all have a great last month of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  and Big Hero 6, and in the spring he teaches "How To Make Something That ... everyday physical objects, starting with "How To Make (almost) Anything" (aka ... Gershenfeld. The class "How To Make (almost) Anything" (also "How To Make" or

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  on campus as of late concerning how to best achieve a safe, caring ... midterms was not much better and I began to get really concerned. My fiery ... something I learned to do well in high school. I talked to TAs and LAs, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"

  

  love to do - great. But sometimes you need to just take a nap in the ... you must get in touch with your alumni interviewer by October 20th to ... in a play, and organizing a student rock concert to raise money for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  "]Lobby 7,[/annotation] so if i needed to get to a class in Building 16 by 10 ... get to MTC in under five. WILD. this is so revolutionary for me ... with my ~beautiful new bike~ in hand. reasons why i didn't want to get a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  in the class and go work together to get it done. We do this because it's how problems are solved in the real world, by small teams of smart ... MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  . A great place to find a parent to talk to would be in the Parent ... us in the Admissions Office the weekend is more about getting ready for ... the weekend it makes sense for me to offer some tips about how you can

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  few blocks away in any direction. First off, there's Toscanini's about ... went at the end of last semester before it was time for us to take our ... blog entry, you can probably tell I support diversity in ice cream

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  best described in How to Write a Great Statement of Purpose, by Vince ... prom date who is a math teacher in rural Washington now and trying to get ... tripping over each other to get onto the page. Sometimes it is hard because

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  now we finally get to see the parts in real life. If you haven’t seen an ... or worse, it’s going to be over in three hours.  Projects, however ... been working in teams to design, build, and control robots to assist a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  , representing the Hamentashen team. In order to understand his slides, I’ll ... guys will get to see it. I assure you that the real thing was much better ... MIT was packed to capacity with students eager to hear six MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  where the TA was doing an introduction for how to code in C++, and he ... . I bought my computer off eBay in 2015, right before going off to ... computer died. Or the time it took multiple hours to get a simple piece of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The Great Snowball Fight of 2013 fame. glory. snow. killian court.

  

  of the movie was a little joke by Pixar. And I refuse to bow to the ... storms, so that is the last time I will mention Nemo in this post. It ... of snow on MIT: What better way to celebrate than with a giant

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 9, 2013