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• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  probably helps a great deal if you are in the right place to begin with. As ... setting. There is a great deal that I enjoyed about engaging in one ... what MIT means to me.  The short version is that it is the place in my

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  When I graduated in 2018, I was talking to my partner about how lost ... routine. I invest in acupuncture and massage appointments to help my muscles ... , partly because I wake up at 8:55am to get to a 9am class. Every morning I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  how to get to it is really satisfying. Additionally, I like the two ... ones. If you think about it, math is how you get your WALL-E's, your HAL ... and how it works, I've found it difficult to figure out how to use that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  , it felt great to just take all the time in the world to get out of bed ... few days in the end of August where prefrosh get to explore living ... note="yesterday here is referring to last last Saturday. you know how

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  wasn't getting out of campus enough. I knew I wanted to start a company ... I saved to travel and pursue my goal of getting myself out there ... plane for a Phi Kappa Sigma conference and spent a week getting to know my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  Last weekend, I went to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). All MIT students get in free with their MIT ID Card, which is always exciting. Look at the good weather, even in November! I wonder how long this will

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  the mid-5s, with the great teachers getting in the 6s and the, well, worse teachers getting 4s and below. So, you want to only have great ... upperclassmen in your dorm will be of great help with this. People who come to MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  your breaking point, and learn how to make time for yourself in order to ... visualization, or to watch a significant person in the field talk about it) 5) Get ... sooner. David D. '17 You're coming to MIT, one of the best universities in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  What I Have Learned From The Early Decision Process At MIT Here are some of the things that impressed me.

  

  covered that. So let's get to the meat of the matter (or for you vegans out ... of clubs in school to activities that help to relieve human suffering ... of you are chomping at the bit to jump right in. As the Black Eyed Peas

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 6, 2005
• 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 ... out The Great Pumpkin in the background. Oh, MITblogs has become like an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  longer essay? The Part II is a great place for us to get to hear your voice ... very helpful in getting to know you. Finally, I read the interview ... throughout the reading of the application), I'll dive right in. How do you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  give me the ability to run up walls. But the whole get up did greatly ... really cool.       Feel free to tell me how awesome I am. ... confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  . Who would have thought I'd need to remember how to do things like factoring polynomials and calculating the area of circles? I'm trying to get ... Just thought I'd reiterate, for anyone who's applying to MIT this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Etiquette Workshop: The Keys to Painless Networking Jodi Smith taught the UPOPers the keys to painless networking!

  

  held in a reception area. We had the opportunity to put our new knowledge to the test while conversing with alumni and employers. It was a great ... appropriate for the situation, like you wouldn't walk up to the CEO of GE and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  take pictures of the machines (: In the meantime, in order to orient ... Shop training, they actually teach you how to make a neat little flash ... coordinates. However in order to establish your coordinates, you need to edge

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  episode that I appear in is #297, so there are many, many other great ... I have heard the term “Shoulder Season” to characterize the time ... of time here in the Northeast between heating and cooling seasons (or

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  be doing better: close to MIT, there's Sapporo Ramen in the H-Mart at ... so I hear: I've yet to go) but it's good in a pinch and when you ... Bridge to get on the Boston side, there's Santouka, which is a fairly

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  shaky at first (this applies to all players, no matter how great you are ... unconvincing win in the group stage and how disappointing it was to see that, but ... knows that if you sit me in front of a TV and give me a game to watch, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  like I'm in the midst of an apocalypse, as opposed to how chill leaving ... remote UROPs/jobs for the summer and it's nice to be in a space where we ... for granted once I left MIT, so it's wonderful to be back in this kind

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  * For me, it was really awesome getting the chance to work in a lab and to ... ’t have worked in a lab nor done research to enter. It’s that time of year ... …I never told them but I like to pretend that they cared. But, in all

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010