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• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading ... . Caffeine is great in a pinch, but eventually the piper must be paid. 2. It ... don't know how to cross streets in the city, but I do know how to get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  idea was, I just knew I had one. After that vague little spark, I sent a ... in October, I was scrolling through the @mitadmissions feed when I came across an animated short of a lady making bread. I probably watched the

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  & Engineering. "It is a role that becomes Matt, because he is not ... winner, Whitney-Johnson, is a senior in civil & environmental ... Women. In 2005, she founded Emerge Global, a non-profit organization that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  clueless is normal. We are beginners in everything we do, from reading, to ... at some subject, then you probably like it a lot, which is important in ... My parents tell me that when I was two years old, Tarzan was my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  VSEPR Google News is the best.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? A jurassic beaver once ruled the riverbank. I've had an extraordinarily busy (and short!) week that I will describe to you all in detail ... because I set my homepage to Google News. I only did that because I didn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  . one reason is so that, when i get up every morning, and get ready to go ... covered, I wrote a very sentimental letter to the Class of 2015 on the ... ; about MIT) on my own graduation day in 2013, but how much, in hindsight, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  'll answer these questions. Our approach to application "essays" is not a ... manage the situation? (200-250 words) People often ask me, "How do I stand out in an essay?" or something to that effect. As MIT admissions

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  ride, which I shall summarize: In exchanging vows of love, Siegfried, a ... where he gives Siegfried a drug that makes him fall in love with Gutrune ... around. All in all, a fantastic first-time experience with opera! I am

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  , many of them run out of power in the morning - and electricity is a major ... ’Assainissement, which is the national Haitian drinking water association - they organize a ... meeting was with a man named Jean Francois, who was in charge of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  , looking through my archives, I can see that we were in fact having 5 ... 's no better way to do that than to look at my webmail inbox--to see ... immediate attention. Yes, there was a point in my life where 75% of the e

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  INT to the INT to the IN(s)T i3 Videos! woo!

  

  Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) (n.) - a DVD you will ... ), after you choose to matriculate. The DVD is a compilation of student ... ). The DVD comes in a nifty little graphic-intensive booklet with all the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  , revealed that “Maxwell's Equations in a Vaccuum” is an esoteric euphemism for “Fruitcake that will sustain you for two days in case of a nuclear attack ... face made for a virile sensory cocktail that stayed in my nerves

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  recall that I'm in an a cappella group with a lot of really great people. Well, that a cappella group is having our last concert of the semester ... soundtrack is pretty brilliant. Yes, it's that one movie about believing in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  admit that I was despairing a little. There are almost 300 people in New ... happy that I live in a dorm that can mobilize within 24 hours, to go from ... meeting that evening, I found out that "host a community barbecue at 5pm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  like growing up in the old house, as we called it, but that’s a different ... ’s spadefoot, as big as both of my hands clasped together. I’ll keep that in — I ... ’ve come to think that home for me is not a place, not yet. It is the things

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  can for sure say that I feel the most confident I've been, which is a ... leaves in a few hours. Instead, though, I've spent the past few hours ... being halfway through my undergraduate education, and that is something I

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  that is why it is in our nature to attempt to make other people more like ... identities; when we say "this is who i am" we simultaneously say "that is who i ... to live." THING I LEARNED: hindi text is encoded using the devanagari

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  Music for Pre-decisions De-stressing manifesting calm and cozy vibes to get you through it

  

  Waiting for college decisions is difficult. Trust me, I've been there before. This is a collection of songs that helps calm me down before going ... ://open.spotify.com/playlist/34w1NkAVcqH4pn9xpuuGDp?si=6ca6d77b70a546b2 Is there a song that helps

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 8, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  . I’m not even going to pretend that I understand what is going on in ... that most of the freshmen who are placed in Maseeh end up moving out, I ... , this is a tradition that has been going on since 1969! So how does it

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Freshman App Questions We're happy to help.

  

  Ahoy! I hope you arrr having a great September. As you know, the MIT Freshman Application is available at MyMIT. The Early Action ... Application section of the site. I am happy to answer your questions (that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2012