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• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  , but it doesn't seem to be working anymore.) If nobody that you know has ... shipped online then it's usually not a big deal. Oh...one last thing. A lot

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?

  

  abstract works, like the Francesco Clemente below left. Unfortunately, the ... pick up their art beginning on Wednesday. Any winnings not collected by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mikey Yang ‘05 Name: Mikey Yang; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Troy, MI

  

  : The people. Hands down. The people at MIT are not what I expected them to be at all! Everyone works hard and studies, but they hang out, party

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  disadvantages, it's worked pretty well in the past week or so. Friday night, Adam ... think it would suck to be a penguin... I'm not so much a fan of the -80

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  , doing some door work; image courtesy Amrys Williams Unfortunately, the ... awesomeness that make me glad to be at MIT (not to mention projects like this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  MIT is different. Here there's not just too many things; there are many ... not enough time to have all the lives I wanted.' and I really felt that ... finally understand. It's obvious that this is not an understanding that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  burnout and exhaustion from all the things I was trying to accomplish on not ... – what if it’s only possible for me to be okay when I’m not actively working/studying? What if I’m doomed to feel like shit whenever I try to be

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  distinguish a time when I was not trying to convince myself that I actually deserved to walk those hallowed halls of MIT. I would NOT have made it through if it were not for this queen. It was like having a mwakenya (cheat

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  wrong with your fancy new antique organ! Bellows not working? Fix them ... Step 1: Wait and Hope You have to wait. Not a week. Not a month. At ... ordeal while trying not throw up. Throw up anyway. Regret not being able to

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  students was international. MIT has since worked to increase this number ... undergraduates at MIT were international. My summer research, however, did not ... not Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Course XI. Sanitary Engineering

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  ’s not rare to see a freshman and a senior hard at work together. On the ... MIT evening is like, and I will not be able to tell. By “evening” I ... the debates may end in an unresolved shouting match. Not the angry kind

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  your covers so you're not in public when you find out. You might want to ... maneuver and odds are you're not a very popular person for it. 3. Stay Off ... personal insecurity than anything else, and it's not going to help you in the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  other in history. In most of these places the power will not be restored ... , because they haven't been able to work on them with the power out. While I ... else, you may work on them with pencil and paper: We know you lead a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  , and what not to expect. Your host: There's no one standard for ... you and your host are not a good match, don't suffer through it ... looks like the CPW Weather Machine may actually work, especially Friday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  not unduly harsh. The past week or so a dull thudding began at 8am sharp ... chain saws were used to dice the branch up. They did their work efficiently, by the time I woke up for the second time at 11am there was not

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  train stations for the past three weeks. It's long, hard work, hence my not putting up a new blog post since I left MIT. </sarcasm> My ... Juice is amazing, my dog's sitting on my left foot...") and not in any way

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  analogy I used recently with a friend. I'm still not sure if it works but he ... . I want to see it work the way it's supposed to, so, if you're an ... living groups?" Well, first of all, that's not exactly fair to FSILGs, as

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  over three great weeks. As this was purely a vacation, I decided to not do any work on my trip (though I do hope to do a work-related visit to ... . It was the one locale on my trip that my grandfather said I must not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  nice wrinkly organ that sits between my ears is not working so well, so I ... building, I eat here more often than I'd like to admit. The guy who works ... . A handful of actual restaurants (ie, not run by campus dining) also

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  entire work force of the factory was able to improvise such detailed lyrics ... work a family-oriented theme. If there's one thing I know about Roald Dahl, it's that he's not exactly sympathetic to thbe families of his

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005