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• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  , which is as complete a record as anything else of offbeat communications ... students their decision letters in tubes, a practice that dates back to when ... got in a room with former blogger/current producer of the MIT+K12 Videos

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  This is it, finals are in two days. One of the things that scared me ... . How does one go about studying? The general recipe is to just lock yourself in a nice room and do nothing but work. That's my plan for the day

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  's false humility with a point. My case illustrates how success is always ... 's Cookie." Lewis, an art history major at Princeton, is a famous journalist ... played by accident in their lives. There's a lot of other good things Lewis

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  "normal" (though really, there's a limit to how normal anyone at MIT is ... diversity, how is it that geography ended up such a predictor of "normal" vs ... "structure follows function". This is a good axiom for biologists, but it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  mit is as a prefrosh, to a rising sophomore whose gone through all the ... grade like back in high school? for example, were you a straight a student ... it. I guess now is as good a time as any to ponder the intricacies of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  to us later on, "Sure is a lot of brass in here isn't there?" When I ... reasons why I enjoy ROTC so much is that there are so many opportunities ... leadership training is probably somewhere at the top of that list, but that's a

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  younger and learning the basics of living in an urban environment, I had a headstart in that regard. However, no transition is without a few roadblocks ... in a long time, the only person I had to be responsible for was myself

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  , matriculation, and formal hall (which is just a formal 3-course dinner served in ... with a degree in Mechanical Engineering with Biomedical Engineering ... University in England. I am reading for a Masters degree in Integrated

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  drawing together a closely-knit, conscientious community in which nobody ... 's actively involved in G@MIT (GLBT at MIT), a Trans Task Force, and MIT ... issues in the student body through workshops and a variety of lectures

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  ) Space is, for lack of a better word, neat[3]. Last semester, in 8 ... in the realm of observational astronomy—so much so, in fact, that ... . I'm kind of awestruck at how you can go from "this galaxy is

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  't have a final, and isn't a CI-H? No problem. Firehose is most useful for ... ="my freshman year in new vs old courseroad" /] CourseRoad is also very popular ... which I ended up pursuing. There is a new version and an old version of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  in google calendar. (toons has rehearsal 2x a week) check in with my friends and ask how they're doing. do this regularly (toons does this ... lists? messaging out "is anyone awake? wanna talk?" in the middle of an

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What is the MIT QuestBridge Supplement?

  Our MIT QuestBridge Supplement is a way for us to gather some ... , our supplement, along with their QuestBridge application, acts in place ... MIT will be contacted directly about how to access the MIT Quest
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  , and I was in no way obligated to work that much. I ended up joining a ... energetic bunch to begin with) so the wedding is sure to be a hoot! As much ... IAP is a wonderful time here at MIT, where the month of January is

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  ! ----- CURRENT STUDENTS! Are you a student who is double majoring or minoring in ... from my class, who is a double biological engineering (20) and music (21M ... on April 23, but you know how MIT is... :) ----- Chris: Since when

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  Dilijan, a neighboring city in Armenia. I thought about how I would rate ... “On a scale from one to ten, where one is ‘Eat to Live,’ and ten is ... a fancy restaurant in Republic Square, Yerevan, after I and some other

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  is (seemingly) taking more. I came across a previous blogger's post ... productive." Indeed. MIT is a weird place where people feel inferior to their ... classes are still challenging, especially as I try to squeeze in a week

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  see how that applies. But it IS possible to balance it all, and in fact ... it turns out, managing your time is a fairly easy process. Here are ... the things you do in a week. You'll see gaping swaths of time that you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  much faster than I need to be going at this point in the walk, which is ... organize my thoughts in a coherent manner, but a lot of it is concept salad ... , doing, this, for approximately as long as I want. It is, in its own way, a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  ’t try to work in a fog. I know how to say “May I pet your dog?” in 5 ... A 21st birthday has significant significance in the U.S. because you ... available to everyone in most other countries since they were a preteen. I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019