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• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  , I need familiarity. At that moment, the novelty of college and MIT ... lifestyle, independent of family and old friends, who were now one Atlantic ... manageable, because I had seen much of the material in high school. One of my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Does the Khan Academy offer practice SATs?

  , and tailored feedback offered by the popular nonprofit learning website Khan Academy. Students can access hundreds of previously unreleased
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  are full of broken links. What up, guys. I got a degree from MIT and it ... then you will be made of fail and then the little voice in your head that mocks you all the time will point and laugh at you for ten million years

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  graduate degree at MIT, he got his undergraduate degree from this diverse ... buckets of mail, plus all of the online application pieces. It's pretty ... MIT portal, be patient. We still have a lot of application pieces to enter and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  the first day of classes is Tuesday, YIKES! But I didn't get through IAP without learning a little bit, at least. Let's hop in the Techno ... 'd spend 4 hours every Saturday at etiquette school trying to learn how to

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2010

  

  with aid packages. Admitted students can then choose to accept our offer (it is an understood part of admissions that some people will shuffle around during the waitlist period; you will lose your deposit at the other

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  ."]abroad.[/annotation] Some of the international scholarships in the UK would offer 2 years of ... 's are only 1-2 years and happen at a much less formative period of life ... schools I looked at. A friend of mine is applying for grad schools in a more

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  said you love is still a healthy one. Yes in the course of one year at ... topic for a lot of students at MIT, and that's because everyone has ... months all of you prefrosh will shed the "pre" (presumably through the use

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  A couple months ago, I wrote about how to make money at MIT. Much to our collective dismay, there is another side of the coin: spending money ... to take care of pretty much all of their expenditures, choosing to live

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Upon hearing one of Bach's motets late in his life ... KIum said she would buy every piece in Uli's collection, and some of them ... those prints mightily in the warm weather of Saint-Tropez. Then again

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From The Middle Of Selection What interdisciplinary fields will exist 100 years from now? What will people be able to…

  

  . I only wish we had room at MIT for more of the amazing people on the ... we offer has grown over time as a result of advancements in science and ... here and over at College Confidential. Haven't had much time to hang out

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  waitlist? We offered 389 applicants -- approximately 3% of applicants -- a ... accept our offer of admission. Some years, we overpredict (as in the past ... the offer of admission from another college before May 1. After May 1

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  text of Learning to Learn at MIT below: It was the end of my freshman ... first semester at MIT was pass or no record, I was in real danger of ... would lose a semester of time here at MIT. In addition, because of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  just take a ceiling tile down at Random instead of having to lie on your ... three days felt like the longest three days of my life. My total sleep ... lot. My adrenaline was at an all-time high, fueled by the Institue

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  questions and comments everyone had. One of my co-workers, Robin, offered an ... tattoo. Christina finds the corpse of a jellyfish and we throw it at each ... The day in question is Thursday, one day before the end of my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  I can’t speak for the accessibility of research positions at other ... Note: This post will be updated at irregular intervals today ... in a chair in Hayden Library. Although arguably, it’s just a bunch of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  shook with rage. I narrowed my eyes, glaring at the orange ball ahead of ... photo of a Burton-Conner room also with an amazing beach theme (jaw ... with photos of the various dorms distributed to incoming freshmen during

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  Hall has a step at the entrance. Don’t trip over it. Tomorrow you should ... recognized me and asked for a sticker because of something I said a year ago ... , if you’d like. What follows are this CPW’s super-exciting events at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  -you-can-eat dinners that each of the five dining halls have to offer. Which dining hall ... variety of food Maseeh offers. As someone who observes a halal-diet, my ... Although eating at Next House involves a 15 min march to the end of dorm row

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  So the four year roller coaster called "Quest for a degree from MIT" has come to a close. And of course, it wouldn't be blogworthy unless there was more of a story than that. So this semester I had just one

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007