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• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  yeah, here is how to (im)properly get an independent study, a sequel to ... Find a few potential professors (preferably including professors you have ... responded saying he’s too busy this semester to be a supervisor Decide to go

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  questions just a year or so ago. A great place to find a parent to talk to ... and the best way to do that is on foot. Even just a short walk along the ... to find on-campus student employment, and how your online student

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  point—had to find a way to cook the ramen in the absence of kettles. We ... sent you from the shame row to his office, where he kept a hair clipper ... people to wake up filled the stalls, and from them, a queue emerged. We

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  small reminders for myself for the future. finding a place Clearly ... recommend finding new roommates. You're going to want space and not be able to find any. The average college kid doesn't have the luxury of renting

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  ’s perhaps my favorite aspect of the Institute—the chance to grow in a tight ... opinions and a willingness to talk about them. -- I also think it is the most ... how to cook good food. It is a little annoying if you just want to grab

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  --I worked really hard to get into a place where I would have to work even ... -control to only let the emotional floodgates open a little. I apologize in ... burnout. They seem to lose their motivation and desire after a few years in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  EPIC, but was also a sweet finish to a hectic junior year where I took ... places and to travel broadly in your time away from school. Just a month ... -minute bus ride from my apartment, where I work on developing a novel medical

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  . A place where sleep regularly takes a back seat to the intellectual ... more inspired by where I had gone to school. When others were exploring ... might be a place where there were others like us. Where we could challenge

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  introduction to physics@mit. This entry has been a while coming. I started ... trips, and guitar hero III. I learned how to ski; I beat a song on hard; I ... sensitivity of our instruments ultimately requires us to establish a noise floor

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  support to live and work abroad for a summer or a semester, without worrying ... wanted to spend a summer in Berlin specifically – it's a very unique city with a character that appeals to me immensely. So, this summer I'm doing

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their ... ), there was a class each term which had the curious tendency to absorb all ... ), I decided that I wanted to try a different approach: below the 48 unit

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

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  to get party hats, but I couldn't find any at the store, alas. Dorm choice I get the feeling that a lot of people find MIT's dorm choice ... temporary room. Don't unpack. (A good strategy is to pack a suitcase with a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  semester, to find out where my limits are." So I signed up for 8.012, and ... . People talk a lot about the "transition" from high school to MIT. But the ... want to put myself through such a difficult class so early in my academic

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  trying to find joy where we can. Spending time with our friends, making our ... 17th. I typically try to keep swearing to a minimum on the blogs, but ... " actions to take from a health standpoint can still be extremely difficult

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  When people ask me where I grew up, I hesitate for a moment before ... family then relocated to Carmel, Indiana, a city just north of Indianapolis ... to be a professional clown? Absolutely not. But now you can say that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  form of pork I find to be often more delicious than bacon? Chinese ... of bacon of comparable value to your kidneys in the living room with a ... things I want to and need to get done than one in a day -- when there are

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  very interesting.(I have a super slow net connection to download or hear ... . decisions...I am not able to believe that a nobel prize man like prof ... , "Is it possible for a junior to be admitted to both MIT & RSI

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  exactly where you want to live, exploring may help you meet your new best ... greatly. It is a special MIT gem. Talk to your family. Stay in touch with ... excitement of novel college life subsided. A common suggestion is to make ~1

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  make a reference to the scene in Veronica Mars where Logan was attacked ... that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document to ... to a bloody pulp with my awesome newfound kickboxing skills. I'd almost

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  a round of 10-hour psets, but turned out to be wildly effective during ... to GIRs, but you'd be hard-pressed to find an MIT student who doesn ... campus, where I developed a module for automatic query expansion based on

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011