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• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  , I have to say that that probably takes great moral fortitude in its ... , it's a great program, apply to it!!!!) But in all seriousness, I ... university in the US - perhaps even the world. i usually can get MIT signal in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  classes like these are such a great way to get your body moving and back ... today also and I am quaking in my boots because I don't know how to do ... machine they found in the Vandille museum, but before they get a chance to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  Getting a bad grade, but still realizing how much I’ve learned to get to ... president of a dorm Built a CPU in 6.004 Learned how to CAD (computer ... Breathe in, breathe out. Wow. I’ve barely had time to breathe let

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• 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
• 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 / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  outlines for how to get into MIT are do well in school, be nice and pursue ... well beyond trying to get into college.   In my first couple of ... odds of me getting in panned out, and in some wild reality I actually

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  for high school. Sometimes it's possible to get extensions or have ... school. In my humble opinion, xkcd used to be a lot funnier than it ... Boston has to offer. Get started soon. Sometimes, you should just T it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  about finally getting more piercings to care about how silly I looked. I ... . I went to Stingray with Priscilla in June 2019. To get there, we took ... is a sort of rite of passage in Boston to get a piercing messed up at

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  officer to get a more official opinion! If you're interested in learning ... get to college, you will be able to sample classes in a variety of ... pursue in math/science. 4. I'm worried that I'm never going to find a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with ... groceries. I go to chain restaurants with parking lots. Sometimes after I get ... /con Should I go to MIT? list was "I can't take my car with me." Freshman year

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  does the academic calendar look like? How easy is it to get a research ... , technician jobs). Some people choose to get their master's in order to build up ... the blog, because I get to impart all kinds of advice from an almost

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  learning how to read circuit board schematics and getting firehosed about ... my life, I get to actually do cool engineering-y things with my actual ... Opportunities Program), which means I get to have an on-campus job doing cool

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  of getting better at art, or feeling immersed in how enjoyable it is ... 'getting things done' to this extent takes a great deal of complacency. half ... 's gone, time has slowed to a crawl. my area issued a shelter-in-place until

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  ’t want to be sucked in to big and long-term lows. Whenever I cry or get ... ’s wrong?” “I’m not in a good mood,” she said. She didn’t need to say why ... emotions do in fact fluctuate with the state of the world, which I want to be

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to ... registered for the course getting really excited to be there only to find out ... 'm unable to fit the last open section into my schedule. You know how

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  of Science/Museum of Fine Arts - MIT students get in free to a lot of ... least I know how to do laundry... 8. Watch every episode of Arthur in ... me to learn how to do it. Apparently, it comes in handy when you

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  Indulge me for a moment. How many times have we seen the movie in ... he lives, thus he is reactionary in his approach to education. Mills ... with little effort. Performing well in the classroom and getting good

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  participates in the concert choir. Finally, in the future, Emily plans to get a ... to be in attendance. Emily's connection to outer space is not the ... theory and observation and also to improve the understanding of how these

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  provide support to students who wanted to study or work abroad in Japan ... to start MIT-fill-in-country-here." Then, sometime in 1994, someone had ... really excited, and decided to apply. Here's how it works: I went to http

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  ’t become not awkward, but I’ve learned how to use my awkwardness in a cool ... much more confident in starting a project I don’t know how to do; I can ... sometimes, but this semester proved to me that I can get it done. 2.009 pushed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024