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• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  . There is a Target close to campus, where you can buy extension cords and ... . There can be restrictions on what you can carry so it is best to plan ... , congratulations! You have a lot to be proud about. From experience, I can say that

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  deciding... "Anonymous" wrote, "I have a Q: is MIT gay-friendly? (intl here ... rights. Currently, Massachusetts is the only state where gay marriage is ... vows. Legally and culturally, Massachusetts/Cambridge is quite gay

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  in a place where to a degree the world comes to you and you can meet a ... feeling. So is all this "you can change the world" message just lip service or can you actually do it here at 18 years of age? I return to a

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  I think it is different now. It is one thing to understand a fact or ... some photographs of our trip. A legal compound a few kilometers outside of Lusaka. A guesthouse, where foreigners often stay. A school

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  year, Anna's Taqueria is celebrating their 150th deciyear! (You can groan, now.) MIT is a fairly unique school when it comes to on ... .50, you can get a more-than-filling lunch with not-quite-all the fixin

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  much rest as possible. Is there any way you can take a break for the next ... room of Urgent Care, a triage nurse came out and said, "Yoshimi? You can ... to Medical! One drawback to the program, however, is that you don

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  the Google Alert. You can set it to email you whenever a certain ... talking about my UROP. It was awesome. There was a little description about our "Liver-on-a-Chip" project. Our research project is partially funded

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  when you buy/order something at a store. I think it's in their employee ... on the tray paper. 25. If = there is a Pokemon store in the mall. Then ... you usually visit a kimono shop, where the shopkeeper will help you put

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  drugs, I have to use drugs, show them that you can be smart." Lynnor ... school and to get accepted into a great college. Sometimes this dream can seem out of reach because of where family lives, but is that always true

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  something, you put it on the list. As you can see, this is a pretty all ... are the most occupied: you can see that 2-4 pm is the most common time ... edit it, anyone can see it, and it's always there to remind you that you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  Part I: Academics   "You do know that MIT is unlike almost any other college in the country, right?".   A few months ago I was ... junior or a senior there and was blown away by the setting. "Absolutely

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  countries holding hands at the same time" picture: There is also a playground ... cost you a bundle to get to or from there. So don't think "Ooh, la la la ... hike up there. What they also have is a monument marking the highest

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  now there is not a darn thing you can do about it. Costs for this set ... student to someone who can provide the care and send you a bill. So the ... throat is swollen, can’t talk much, they’re gonna give me a CAT scan, my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  book and annotate it because there is so much I can learn to grow as a ... this is a niche subject, but they’re good books to read if you happen to ... regard. Even though this is a fiction book, I have no doubt that there are

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  or be on campus and take classes and do a million things? You can. Or, you can stay home. It’s whatever you need to be ready for another ... came and had samples and there was a huge taste-off where people could

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  . Moreover, if law enforcement is given unfettered access to this data, they can surveil individuals without having to lift a finger, and can mine that data ...  watchful eye of police. If this data is not secure, malicious actors can likewise

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  for 6.081. But I'm tired and confused (why is d+=1 legal normally but ... "radium is more reactive than that!" or "Hey you forgot manganese!" It ... . Seriously, this is what we do for kicks. If you think that's lame, MIT is not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  , if you’re mildly sick, give you drugs. Lean On Me, started by a group ... , where you can browse through the alumni list and contact former students ... insider tips. Even by just observing them, you can learn a lot about the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  though you can simply buy a very large bin and solve everyone’s problems ... worse than running river water. So, you can't just have a giant rain ... filtering plant? Are the pipes directly beneath the building? Is there a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  of Music. (I know, that one is a little out there.) But the point of ... engineers and the other 50% are biologists. You need a place where the myth of the lone genius working alone is turned on its head. A place where

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012