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• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

    Did you know the soda can top (or "pop" can for those of you ... 's literally nothing I can't turn into a formula):     Where S is ... all the interfaces that you can see the nonlinear and coupled solutions

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  't strive to be the best we can be (because some of the people here are ... the best you can be in high school. Take the hardest classes you can ... is one of the best things you can do to prepare for college. Not only

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  biological systems are so fine-tuned that biologists can only push research ... . (We probably aren't them.) A software developer can make a code push that impacts millions of strangers. A biologist can publish a paper that

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  incoherent pen-markings in every wild direction on their notebooks. You can ... can't understand my notes is not because they are written in some odd ... amount of time, anything can be understood, no matter how complex, right

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  case you can't pick up a bland, regular copy at a T station somewhere in Boston, you can check out what an independent game company in Cambridge ... through mazes so we can later examine what goes on at the level of neural

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  The most exciting series of words you can ever hope to hear out of an ... exciting, because MIT students take "awesome" and "we can" to a whole new ... show in the past year can come, and cast his or her vote. There are four

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  ! Which is a pretty remarkable nerd collection that you can peruse whenever ... academic reason. It's one of the few shops where you can be a little more ... primary concerns I get from students: 0) How can I do all of this? There

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  are in the program. You can do the minimum 3 times per week PT (physical ... , and I want to show you how awesome that can be. Once a semester we go ... of higher, and passwords so you can identify friendlies. Each team has

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  can pop into her lab and annoy her =P Or give her chocolate, since she ... Exploratory subject, which means that I can take the class, see my grade, and ... until then, I'll be trying to get as much experience as I can continuing

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  . Your existing skills, goals, and potential are things not even MIT can ... can’t be all summed up in rewards just yet. Work and motivation don ... definition of the word, you failed to get in MIT – but you can never believe in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  cycles – making rounds from “Hey…I can do this…” to “OMG. This is impossible!” and back again. But true to my procrastinatorial roots, I can ... , five 1-or-2 hour sessions later, I can show you somewhat close to what I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  you can move your part around on a table (like an etch-a-sketch) and then when you pull a lever you can lower a drill bit into it (like a drill press). The main difference is that you can move the part around

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  you the most good. Interpretations of each can be found on a page of ... awful chore that they're glad to be done with. Unfortunately, this can ... until you live here you just can't know. Be completely honest in your

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  of 2013 facebook group. Sophomores and juniors can attest to the fact ... swallow you in the middle of the night in January. You can't really trust ... years ago (SERIOUSLY THIS CAN'T BE RIGHT I'M NOT OLD ENOUGH FOR THIS), got

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  . She can change all of our banner pictures, update our biographies ... ? Well, every student at MIT is assigned server space so that they can ... and organizations on campus can apply for locker space, separate

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  . GPI operates under the goal that WE can be the generation that ... mobilize our generation, we can see it done. Last March GPI hosted the ... -Carb Triple Chocolate Mocha thing you can’t go without every afternoon. What if

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  I can remember, back when I was applying to MIT, there were two huge ... menu for the "From" field. Now you can decide to either send from ... to, but it can happen. I wouldn't let this stop you from making the

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  : it can be tedious and time-consuming, but you've gotta do it. And in ... piles : Bring Home, Keep, and Junk. (If it helps, you can think of the ... Skullhouse. As for Junk? Well, most of it is headed for the trash can. I don

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  , completely mind-numbing oddities that can be found in the tubes. Do you ... old links still redirect, so whenever I comment I can just leave my URL ... can sell that on eBay!" or I said, "Wow Ben, thanks, maybe I'll go sell

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  + Roller Blades = awesome. Rumor has it that I can get a fine for skating ... think about what it'd be like to have no cares or worries. As it is, I can ... (unless I ask them or I can dig around and find a hacker to ask but I don

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008