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• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  ...whatever) just wait until you get to campus. There are always upperclassmen trying ... bookstores in Kendall Square. The Coop is guaranteed to have your textbook and ... . So don't run out and buy textbooks yet! Wait until you get to school

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  coach before I apply to MIT or just (if i get in) show up for tryouts? And ... seriously considering playing in college. Athletics are one of many ways to ... needed to. On collegeboard.com's website, there is an option to send scores

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  . You get to try a career for a few months to test the waters. If you don ... enjoyed the experiences I’ve had in labs, but I started to realize that it ... . Turns out, they were the next day. I usually like to prepare a few days in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  leading to the Bachelor of Science in Art and Design degree ... everyone thinks of when they hear "architecture major." We learn how to design and how to express our design's intentions with models, drawings

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  on All the fruit, having him explain to me how lemon guava in Malaysia ... job that I love, getting to meet —  in person, or via application ... At some point in the pandemic I began to collect tropical fruiting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  completely until you’re here in a dorm, in a town you’ve only been to during ... , we headed to Quincy Market in the heart of Boston, where I had been ... literally in the perfect place to have too many things to do around off

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 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 / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  's like to take Thermo, or all the cool traditions in their dorm, or their ... walking to the end of the world (in Minecraft), has strong opinions about James Joyce, and thought about many things as she learned to swim in the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  , but people have been telling me that in order to get in you MUST take ... list of things one ought to do in order to get in. Do note that they don ... do to get in." No one activity is "better" than another: the best

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  is a somewhat privileged position to be in (and given some of those ... , go to docs.new (the most useful website shortcut frankly), and put ... to help prevent burnout and introduces some variation in your life

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  ", and how it's natural for us to tell people things in a way that makes it ... importance because you might just pay attention to the little things and get ... decisions and let the little things in life pass you by. how would one even

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  directories here are in Georgia and Arial, again two Windows fonts. How to ID ... to its lower left, the one that starts "THIS ACCESS POINT", is in ... how the lowercase C in Flama has closer [annotation note="Strike one for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  . Wouldn’t it be cool to learn about the things in [EECS Opportunities List ... announcement email[/caption] The prospect of getting to fiddle with technology ... . My expectations for getting in were [annotation note="per the usual

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  , explicitly foregrounds these concerns in discussing how the MIT education, and ... efficiency of management and to eliminate fluctuations in economic and social ... special talents, and to provide an environment in which these may flourish

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  of reasons. I wanted to get better at guitar and paint more, in ... love getting to go to so many. Getting my job offer in September. Learning how to sail and having the confidence to sail. Getting over my fear

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  learning community in which you will be encouraged to explore how these core ... coming in for the festivities. Most of us know each other as we chose to ... , who wanted to bring back the grand old hacks of the past. In honor of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  ?” someone asked. According to Google, 6:00 pm. “How long does it take to get ... websites and documentation are more likely to use “MIT”—so much so that the ... , to participate in the Discover Aerospace FPOP! In my overly simplified

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  clarify exactly what a sorority is. According to the Panhel website ... recruitment! Recruitment is a five day process, where you get to meet a lot of ... are nothing like what the media portrays. I'll try to dispel some

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  lay in its ability to transport me to another world, another story, and ... the best places in the world to be a student” and the top two reasons ... research, MIT, and life in general. One digression led to a conversation on

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  Okay, so I just figured out how to add the Spanish keyboard to my OS ... ...it's kind of pathetic, I suppose, that I just figured out how to do this. But ... yet (I'll get to it later, I'm about to go to sleep...), but basically

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008