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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  House, the dormitory where I live. The role of dorm president is often a ... sign-offs, regardless of the context. I think you can't go wrong with ... emails I sent during my term, where things were particularly difficult

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  back tight, lives with her mother in the same apartment where she grew up, in the Bernard Baruch housing projects on the Lower East Side. What ... daughter. "I can find one of those cheap places to stay and I can spend the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  just for fun (more on all that in a future post) -- I was back on campus ... , at Snowbird in Salt Lake City. Disclaimer: to be fair, I took a tram up ... day -- and I still needed to train in between everything as well. For

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  , so I'm not actually publishing a paper. In all seriousness, in the past ... couches, and working in the study carrels or cubicles. Once I saw someone ... light sleeper, because the noise in the hallway can get loud. But there

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  . But now -- now I am an MIT student, and so I can enlighten any of you ... baby:   Going in order from above, let's see what I've got ... classes where I hear wildly, wildly different things from different people

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  I spend several minutes in and around Building 68 elevators most days of the week. Often the elevators are where I find out about cool talks ... favorite. [annotation note="I had a long back-and-forth conversation in my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  , both ours and prospectives, a carefully designed space where they can ... ? and we want your help in answering them. In the comments below, I would ... admissions). These things can be technological (i.e., a particularly nifty way

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading ... recently. I come to the second to last piece in the folder, which is the ... , I don't think I have ever in my summary of a student used high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  immerses the user in a beautiful underwater story! I was the only extern ... . At some points, I literally had to repeat in my head “This isn’t real ... Management, and 3 in Unity Development. I was on the Unity team, and loved it

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  as early as you can! But since I was in such a time crunch, I printed ... guide to preparing (or at least a guide to how I prepare) in the hope that ... national assessments. The first SAT test I took was in 7th grade--I don

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  free time and not care about my impact on the world? you think i can just ... think i’d strongly prefer a world where more people kept an explicit goal ... making decisions like what job to work at after college. i think we’d be in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  It's a beautiful day here in northern Virginia, where I'm celebrating ... material?" I'd say it's best to try to get things in by the beginning of ... that you can always send in any materials you wish regardless of if you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  might remember I spent two months in Uganda that summer under a Public Service Center Fellowship. In June 2009, I traveled to Uganda again with ... brings computers to secondary and primary schools in Uganda. I have been a

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  for them in what little free time I had. It was my most stressful high ... —balance, time-management, something. In my first few weeks here, I got a fair ... quadrupled in the space of no time, and I felt that I really needed a lot more

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  me. But although I can't remember where I found the numbers, this is ... thing. I highly suggest it!) So does this mean that you can pour all of ... community college) and get good grades in them. And, of course, you can get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in EAsT camPUS A few of the basic things to know.

  

  type? 1. You can learn how to cook. What better way to learn how than to live in a place where you can have a big, awesome kitchen with personal ... known to make a home out of EC as well.. 3. Residents live in doubles or

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • July 31, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  gratitude gets overlooked. There have been many moments where I felt ... somebody can feel like shoving a gift in their face that they didn’t ask for ... , life is precious and tomorrow I could die in a freak accident, so I should

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  (actually, I don’t. But it’s the principle...). That’s where Maggie’s flowchart comes in-it takes all the worry out of pre-meet packing. You can ... Now, I know I’ve had a tendency to bury the lede a bit, (although I

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  , Sleep; pick two" and just having been here a few months I can certainly ... that can be part of the challenge that's so exciting. I mean, would you ... 't! (That's usually how I made notecards in high school). Notecards are meant

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  Sherlock Season 3 is really bad. 3) This blog post, which I re-read in order to answer an e-mail. Hysterical: - the line "I can't type endless text ... -children. Other people from who knows where Furniture by IKEA" I met Cam during

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013