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• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  small and manageable to a literal firehose. So, I found myself with a ... appealing pieces and a better life. You'll know how to gauge for success in ... not crocheting for practicality, because a lot of what I crochet is

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  looked like. So I ate my mathematical-vegetables and went on with my life ... trying to figure out a) what maths after calculus looks like, and b) if I ... student (at least, for a high school student). But I remember sitting in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  institution, and principally this office, for giving a goofy kid with curly ... hands with a rueful expression and said to me "That’s like asking me to ... away from home. And here's the video I made, with iMovie, at age 22 in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  look through a rather long list of names, degrees, and job titles ... their work and explain things that I was unfamiliar with. IAP is a great ... gym to stay active and played tennis a couple times with some old

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  -up are Cheats and Munimuni, both with 3 songs. There's 5 songs that are ... – How to Save a Life and Reese Lansangan – No Snow, both mentioned 2 times ... ? Uncertainly, like For The Fickle, is another song I associate with goodbyes, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  ’s MIT-speak for “undergraduate research”), I work with a team of awesome ... need is a little curiosity and enthusiasm for a topic. This could be ...  Burchard Scholars dinners and we got to talking about INSPIRE, a cool project that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  for years to friends of mine - Doug Adrianson and Hope Frazier, both ... publish it and orchestrated the myriad of things that need to happen for a ... 's tendency to take things apart. And maybe someone will vote for a candidate

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  helped me a lot with understanding and processing the events from the day ... ground myself a lot better with where I was in the world and specifically ... use. I got it as a gift from my mom and it works pretty well for my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  population. I take 5 HASS classes, rather than the “usual” 3-4 technicals and a ... .901 Political Science Internship and Research reconvenes for a discussion on ... time for cleaning and organization with the sound of music. At the end

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  preponements, a fancy term for moving the exams to an earlier date. Preponements ... to work and study. The term hasn't quite ended yet! To give you guys a quick look at what a day in my life looks like here in Switzerland, I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  friends and being able to hang out with my whole class for the first time ... number six for my whole night and it was 10/10 looking back at my semester ... had three floors, over 30 rooms, and a hot tub, so it was a very very

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  opportunity to work through the entire design process and end up with a nice ... finally decided on a strategy and went with it! April: Things started coming ... .007 has come to a close. If you're saying, "2.007, huh?" click here and read

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  with four potential PhD advisors... and eating a lot of free food (and ... engineering grad school admissions (both for you guys and for my favorite ... GPA isn't as important as research experience. Period. I have a 3.5, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  ability to come up with bizarre plots. And both my bio and physics psets ... . I keep reaching for both of these - and then I realize that I have an ... my schedule such that not a single class of mine runs past 3:30 pm

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  looking for summer work. Wow, I'm beginning to like this place! My mom and I flew in on Wednesday so that we could have a day for travel and use it to look around Boston a bit. We walked down Newbury st. and took a look at

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  admission at N.Y.U. and elsewhere are sounding a cautionary note. They say ... Action (EA), and January 1 for Regular Action (RA). While there are still ... Doc of the various deadlines and requirements for all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  Sweet! I've got my mp3, my dance moves, and a location, it's time for some ... blast, press play and watch for the signals to start dancing. 3. Ghosts ... MP3! **If you are using a PC, right click and Save Taret As **If you

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  I have SMASHING news!

  

  docked the commvee for some petrol while the kids fetch a cuppa and some ... wizards and warlords? Perhaps a primitive clamor for crops? An unusually ... say upon our arrival the seafaring natives looked at us a tad queerly

  • by Sir Nigel Blogberry
  • March 7, 2012
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  around, and I left that sleepless, exhilarating set of weekends with a song ... transition into MIT for incoming freshmen and provide them with all the support ... win. But as the people I’d be sharing a floor with for the next seven

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James ... Hopkins to talk about her work with zebrafish and cancer research that ... Watson. Zebrafish and Cancer: What's the Connection? is a rich narrative

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007