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• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  ago when we first arrived. It's incredible, to say the least. Right ... get up, say good morning to my roommate, and head for the bathrooms ... a twenty-minute shower, and go back to my room, pick out my clothes

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  Hey guys, I first want to start off by apologizing for not being around recently. However, I will make it up to you guys over this summer ... was a terrible idea. At the end of the first semester I had to scramble

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  narcissism and desperation to be the main character tells me I'm the first. I ... and I told him that for once in my time at MIT, I want to be good at something, to have my niche. I've been struggling a lot in finding my place

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  might say “go to S^3 and get this approved first, then sure.” Or once I ... the second! I feel like I’m finally starting to get math." But then, the ... for ten hours it’s 7 a.m. jesus christ, go to sleep," but I can’t cause

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  newspaper, and I decided to help out the staff at The Tech. I wrote my first ... technology?" Here's the story: I went to a school called High Technology High School, and a lot of my friends and I would semi-jokingly refer to us as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  blankets out of old MIT shirts, but the idea first occurred to me as ... experience, so the first thing I think I'm going to do [annotation note="At the ... parade! It was the first Pride parade that I actually got to be in, and I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  [/caption] Nevertheless, I persevered, and five days after my first run, I managed to ... Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the Great Campus Exodus in March, I decided to pick up running again. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  This semester I’m taking Intro to Photography. For the first half of ... techniques to make what I see in my head manifest on paper. It’s emotions-consuming -- when multiple test strips fail to produce what I want, I cry, if only

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  World: MIT Speaks, that showcases 25 undergraduates' responses to the ... , and what should the United States do to solve it?" Two fellow bloggers ... congratulations is in order for Zahir Dossa, who I profiled in my first blog. A

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  the first to go come the zompocalypse. Seeing this got me thinking ... Hackers don't waste any time hacking CPW this year. It's the first ... , doesn't see the zombies as a threat, forcing hackers to help protect the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  themselves to a differential equations textbook, buy their first starbucks ... through high school without doing any work, then I got to my first 8.01 test ... percent on a test at MIT, rest assured that you guys will be the first to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  Name the first thing that comes to mind when you think “MIT” and ... : FIRST Robotics (or any sort of robotic shenanigans, really). Rocket ... in common? Well, first, they’re all what people traditionally take

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  toast. I then head to first aid training for ESP, where we learned things like how to provide first aid to wounds. Then I headed to a vacant ... lunch is pretty much my first meal of the day. After lecture, I head to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  first week+ here at MIT, so if there’s any acronyms I can explain to you ... the first 90 seconds. Before long, one of us (me) succumbed to our (my ... page, but otherwise we can move onwards to the next acronym in the first

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2029. The comments on this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us ... : "I’m not going to tell you that it doesn’t hurt, but I will tell you

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Late Night Dial-Up Users Beware!

  

  handle it? I've decided to post all of the YouTube videos that I've favorited since I've gotten here. "What does this have to do with MIT?" Look ... about the environment caused me to watch them. Also, many were shown to me

  • by Snively '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Circus School Mitra flies like a trapeze artist; fruit flies like a peach.

  

  I am a very lucky duck, and was treated to an afternoon at the San ... secured into a harness. First, grab the [9 pound] bar with your right hand. Then your left hand. (It really helps to trust the person holding on to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Examination Nation 9 hours to prove that I learned something this semester.

  

  Materials II Before I begin to arduously study for my 1:30 final, I thought I ... morning. To: Bryan From: Matt Sung to the tune of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" At first I was afraid; I was petrified, Thinking I could never

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  take an overenrolled class. Generally, priority is first given to seniors ... the first class and decide the class list then.  I’d like to share the ... endeavor. Aside from making sure that I’m on track to graduating on time

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  I'm writing today to remind our applicants that we do not give any kind of preferential "bump" to students who apply to MIT during Early Action. This is a longstanding policy. There is no reason to rush your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020