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• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  in Stata A brief tangent--I have always loved to explore. MIT is great ... Dear Internet, I’m pleased to announce that I’m publishing a paper ... is loosely stated as such: “For every student sitting in a library

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry, no dorms yet but… ya wanna see some classes?

  

  lecture because that is pretty obnoxious when a professor is trying to speak ... a test (it's pretty funny if you're not one of the kids) I could do ... I have tests in all my classes in the next few days so I thought it

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline & Taking Questions Advice for RA applicants; I'll answer questions Thursday.

  

  is ready to go, click that button, or stamp that mail! I hope these ... Please remember that January 1 is the submission deadline for ... fully staffed over the holidays and is, even as I write, busily processing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  time difference ruled that out. I had a couple of old friends who, like ... you do the same for them. Here at MIT, we hold each other up in a ... . Don't do what I did, and figure that you'll blaze around independently

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  on Tuesday until after I've taken a nap. This may sound nice, but is in ... that may be six, since I'm still waiting on one. You do want to get ... 're like in the lab. This is a pretty important part of the package, since

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  that I took part in: web.lab! It’s a student-run course here at MIT ... guess what I’m taking away from this IAP is that there’s a balance to be ... spend a week with in a foreign country. Turns out Harvard kids aren’t that

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Ask Me Anything no, really

  

  really got used to it. I learned a lot in 21M.302; I looked at some sheet ... 've passed all of my classes, so that means I am officially done with ... ? Well, it means I not only have a lot of free time for writing blog posts

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • December 29, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  [/caption] I often joked that 6.115 in a nutshell was, "how do you make something ... throw print statements everywhere in the same way that I would with a ... this kind of stuff, I wanted to appreciate hardware. It helped that a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  and a circular saw. I found it fun enough that I signed up for Maker ... several minutes of sketching until I got a shape that looked like π enough ... upon hours of work, and I learned that it only took an hour or so. And a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  that they do in fact believe I ought to become a professional astronomer ... street is that this could mean a Nobel Prize for MIT's Prof. Alan Guth ... into the wrong exam hall, I said "Um, yes. 8.012 is DEFINITELY in this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  ! Well, let's back up a little bit… For one reason or other that I cannot ... it a second thought, because it's just not something I imagined doing ... a lightbulb literally went off in my head. I could be learning Korean

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  that you cannot respond to emails in your inbox when I know for a fact ... structures in the end. This is a typical time vs accuracy tradeoff (I as one ... is solved. I'll use all this in months to start developing a model

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roadtrip! Spontaneity is my middle name.

  

  So since the semester is over, and Boston is a little wet to say the least, I decided that today, I'm going to take a little road trip to NYC. Don't really know what I'm going to do once I get there, but I figure I

  • by Bryan
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  "] “is it okay if i take a picture” “only if you use it in a blog post ... some puzzles, which will be marked. This paragraph is not a puzzle. I ... -puzzle content in this post too. Worthwhile puzzlehunt information What is a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  through it myself, but the basic idea is that your advising group lives in ... programs and freshman advising/seminars? When do you choose your classes?" I ... residence hall and participates in activities with you there. What I think

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  is setting in, I always told myself, "If I could do this 100, I can do ... classes is remarkable). I loved doing a ~5 mile loop from New House, up the ... House in New House) had a little terrace that overlooked the river, and I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  —drafts that never made it past the first sentence and exist in a folder on his ... proceeded to…well…post a blog? And, that's it. I think we all learned something today. Oh, my name is Kellen and I work in the communications wing

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  only is it a pretty big line to get in your head, a lot of the times I ... in a place called "Malinckrodt". (I wasn't an Orientation Leader in ... - basically, I'm hoping that in time her intrinsic fashion sense may somehow rub

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  placed a seed of doubt in my mind that I had caused the accident. "Oh", I ... admittedly is a baller - so I also love the Charles River Bike Path, which runs ... my right, when all of a sudden a big green sedan is cutting right in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  When I was a freshman, like many before me and many since, I lived in ... ask, Oh, do you play hockey?" From there it was natural that I would learn that a great way to spend an hour and delay doing a problem set was

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009