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• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  if you get there early you can buy a used copy. Also, it's been my ... to get. Usually you can buy older editions of textbooks for a lot less ... Laura asked: "where can you get inexpensive, used textbooks? one of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  of you who are intrigued by what is in my opinion a highly bizarre ... don't get cellphone signal here? GPS doesn't know where it is, and ... country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  twenty countries on my own (I suppose if you're bored you can guess a few ... ). New York is a great city, and there has long been a Battle of the Titans ... , a l√° 30 Days) – so this is essentially a dream come true. This

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  teacher ("you'll just sit there," I said, which would turn out to be a ... , you choose to live with a[annotation note="One person who lives on Putz is a Putzen. Two or more people who live on Putz are also Putzen

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  will look like out in the real world. A real world where I can't just ... , we are living in a society where it is becoming increasingly more ... . Pullling a Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Jobs or one of these guys, if you will

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . The process of making what you can from a situation doesn’t require a ... taught by a specific person. I trust that there were clubs you wanted to ... . Whatever it is you wanted: hold onto it as tightly as you can. The hard part

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  MIT. I can't tell you whether it is worth it. Not while knowing that I ... who I am, and encourages me to develop my interests." A place where ... community would push each of us towards our goals. A place where I feel that

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  . Regardless, Haymarket is the place for best grocery deals, ones a buyer can ... Boston is a marvelous city! During the school year, I have ... Street MBTA station, the Boston Common, oldest park in the country, is the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old virtual stomping grounds; I've missed you a lot. I like what you've done ... push boundaries, to improve the world. There isn't a day that goes by in

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  I can really say is that 22 is a recurring theme at tEp. For example ... I don't have a video of the pianola at tEp but you can watch a nearly ... [/caption] [2] Thirty-three purple squids Take a look at the sky, what do you see

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  while at MIT If and when you are accepted to MIT there may be a day when ... answer: Hacking is not a club and you will never see it listed in any ... MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  asked, "Why throw something away when you can tell a story about it ... from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... that lived in a hermetically sealed jar in Random Hall and is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a ... dome!), which is where I go when I really need to get work done. If you ... music room, where you can probably find me crying/angrily singing: The

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  something is an emergency, you can call 617-253-4481 24 hours a day for ... about your life. If you feel like there is a small possibility that you ... "fight or flight" response, or it can just be a feeling like you don't want

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  that a professor can be a mentor and a listening ear and not just an ... years. I think I also knew that this is a pretty big deal; I expected that ... , there's a startling amount of diversity in character and interests among

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  you can make friends there. Later on, when you establish a community, you can certainly move to live closer to your friends, but there is also ... cost of living (though you can purchase a meal plan while living in any

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  . You don’t know how to get back down. You finish a problem set. There ... classmate you’re talking to says he’s a HASS major. You blink. There’s nobody ... . There is an email about Boba sales in your inbox, and every time you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  Bazaar. My favorite is probably Growing a Language, a talk you can watch on ... make up for a lack of maintainers. This is where SIPB comes in. As ... different? Low-code authentication solutions? If you're using a low

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  I remember exactly where I was when the email got sent out. There was ... of the people. And this very long never-ending day is a testimony to that. There was a sense of joy because the MIT community had really come

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  with a research paper. A research paper is structured thus because you ... essay - you're trying to convey a slice of your life, and thus you can ... , since it makes the "lead-in" a lot easier (you can basically just segue

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008