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• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  -styled notification at the end of the Infinite, I challenged myself to find as many ... , over time, become entirely irrelevant to what you first intended to ... right from the get-go, but after walking down MIT's Infinite Corridor, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  freshman. Covid [annotation note="you got up to five other people who you could interact with normally; you had to remain socially distanced from ... taught me how to stand up for myself, hold others accountable, and take

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

         “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it's still an improvement.” “And what ... slightly embarrassed cough. —The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a ... wants to do that? When I do an info session for prospective students, I like to mention that there is a writing requirement here at MIT. To some

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  first got to the office, our information sessions even showcased a picture ... and raise them to just their second story heights at first. Then, once ... ="aligncenter" width="1000"] The first three units in progress.[/caption] We decided to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  extracurriculars. On my way to the first one, I realized I just couldn't do it. I ... As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since sophomore fall, and not really had the courage to do it or the time to think about what I wanted to say. When I was a freshman, I wrote two posts about

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  get around to this coffee table that I'd first dreamed of more than a ... for my grandmother, who loved to hear, and tell others, about my ... left with some extra wood stain, varnish, and desire to build things. So

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  attention to the class of 2028 and beyond, I want to take a moment —  alongside President Kornbluth — to reaffirm our commitment to diversity in a time of great uncertainty about the future of affirmative action, and to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  ’s not as if it’s his first book and he is dying to have an undergraduate ... letters with actual human handwriting. I was therefore super pumped to find a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it would be interesting to document my Thursday because I usually end up ... !   November 13th, 2014    8:30am first alarm (turned off) 8

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  I finished my first semester at MIT. There's so much to write about. I could write about my IAP UROP. Or the Infinite Magazine. Or getting ... concepts I learned. The things I made. I just haven't. Instead, I want to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Etiquette Workshop: The Keys to Painless Networking Jodi Smith taught the UPOPers the keys to painless networking!

  

  appropriate for the situation, like you wouldn't walk up to the CEO of GE and ... appropriate if you're introducing yourself to a veterinarian or fellow dog lover. 5. Do your homework! If you're going to an event sponsored by a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to ... head-to-head, and in this example, the boat and the wind were in opposite

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  after the first semester, though I'll admit that may have been due to the ... fire hose of learning was opened at full force. I'll try to sum the ... students to forums, where they could talk over pizza and snacks. They sought

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  and have fun!  The Infinite Infinite The first major letdown that one experiences when they visit MIT for the first time is that the Infinite corridor ... Infinite and out lobby 7 to grab a bite to eat from the [annotation note

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  to make sure it was working”””” and read just the first line and couldn ... .  We had a snow day and when I called my grandmother to tell her, she ... eat the ice cream to celebrate; if I did not, I would eat the ice cream

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  'm about to dive head-first into the craziness that is medical school ... first time one of the bloggers has written about being pre-med at MIT, but I thought it'd be worth it to add my own thoughts into the mix

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  quivering mess the first time we had to do that, and not because the water was ... On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  first, choosing where I would go to college was simply a matter of getting ... about why I decided to commit to MIT. I tried to keep it as close as possible to the original, but I did have to edit out some details. It’s the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020