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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  Native Americans in the area who taught them how to fish and hunt local ... their families to take part in a few time-honored traditions: huge, home ... attempted to move the holiday earlier in the year to increase the length of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  back to Boston, because my time there really made me appreciate how much ... and I need 54 more units in order to hit that 180 number."]I need to do this in order to graduate.[/annotation] Luckily, my classes this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  Point in a couple of days (this one) and I plan on trying to clean my room/get ... . We used mills to drill holes in some polystyrene brackets, and we ... is in the video, I guess, so I present to you what a spastic spider bot

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  the two? Would you ever toss a coin to decide, in this case?" I get ... because of your scientific passion and not just to get into college. Nick ... really need them and don't have them, your counselor can expect to get a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  egalitarian in that way. We really want to do our best for the students and ... example, a father and daughter drove from rural Idaho to see my meeting in ... fairly regularly. In my years at MIT, I've seen sneaks of such films as 8

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  (sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year) How I Learned to Stop ... , it feels lonely to do social science without being able to share in the ... did get me into the learning zone. I didn't expect that the audience to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  some really great techniques on how to "ground oneself," which is when ... because it's hard to get your brain together when you're in panic mode. So ... times like these I need to know I'm not alone in how I am feeling. I was

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  you’re not sure what I mean, allow me to tell you about my check-in ... was a ridiculous amount to see and take in. I could sample any color or ... that contributes to how the overall campus felt (har har, more theme

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  . Content caters in large part to the demands of the audience, who can email ... brainstormed on how to take that energy and translate it to the rest of MyMIT, as ... seemed to get more and more popular. And then, one day, I stumbled upon

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  existed in my high school is defeated here, that I have no reason to avoid ... isn't like me. Not like me in the sense that had we gone to the same ... , my roommate needs me") to get out as fast as possible. I tried to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  'll have to turn in several blank answers because you don't have time to get ... assignments" that you get in high school. Big differences between psets and ... )...parts to the same problem - so in actuality you are doing like 20 smaller

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  frequently. all in a week's work, right? to wail and complain about how ... dimension in which i get to know people. but that meant that all weekend i ... one. when i was applying to be a blogger i wrote this in my blogger

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Lots of good and important stuff for both EA and RA admits.

  

  your future classmates, and to get emails and screennames to be in touch ... , check it out! Join the Facebook Group: Facebook is a great place to meet ... wise: if you're flying in, book your plane tickets early (You may want to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  said that she wanted to write up a little entry about how GEL prepared ... lounge, one of the upperclassmen in my dorm stopped by to comfort me. “Don ... -defined problems fed to you by a benevolent manager, then you’re in luck because the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  to get a question in edgewise. TAs also look to avoid these OH and they ... The last two years at MIT has been a large exercise in learning how I ... absolutely fall in love with the class (shoutout to Tim P.(but to be fair

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  hours each week in office hours helping students get familiar with the ... plans for how she'd apply her programming skills to her physics studies. I ... . I somehow found myself somehow talking to her in Lobby 7 for nearly an

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  members in the service so during the semester, it can be difficult to get ... Market to stock up on food in case I couldn’t get out during the blizzard ... one in which we get to build solar cells with the help of viral phages

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  some work done. Desk is such a great job--basically getting paid to do ... physics (grading = another great way to make money). It's best to work in ... difference is to give you a portrayal of what a typical day is like in both

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  great export: How accessible is campus dining? In my realm of discussion ... for during the regular semester. Want to learn how to speak in Tagalog ... acceptees to MIT this year. Congratulations! In order to ready the potential

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  (which was great), and I watched the entire second season of Kakegurui in ... I often don’t, choosing to spend another hour or two in bed. I couldn ... , all around us. On New Year’s, another friend and I went to get lunch

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020