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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  very last person to speak. I concluded the neuroscience group ... , debate just wasn’t quite the right environment for me to perform in, but it was the perfect environment for me to train in. I think that, slowly, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  as an AeroAstro is amazing in a lot of respects. 9AM classes for ... (like I did for most of last year) and I feel like I've found an amazing ... /Build/Fly team, training all our delightful new members and gearing up to fly (and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  According to my favorite website ever, StatCounter, somebody from ... do, and *then* find someone to pay you for it." -Gerry Sussman Well ... rapidly cool hot metal?". Well, that's what I've been asking for a while now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  classes, they count for little to nothing in your final course grade. You ... notorious for taking some people more than 10+ hours to do). If you ... I don't think it's a good idea to be on 72 units, for the sake of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  requirements.) It's a little harder to do this for math classes, especially ... , right? So let's see how I do. Feel free to ask in the comments for ... icosahedron! And this turns out to be too complicated to allow for a quintic

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  to have tiny Santas). The recipe says to bake for an hour, but in ... you are for whatever reason someday required to secretly make them and ... Career Fair is a magical time: in addition to the opportunity and the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  interviews has changed (though Stu's advice on how to prepare for it remains ... , they should limit themselves to nagging you to do it, and not do it for ... , test scores, etc. They want to learn about you as a person. This is your

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  wheels on them so you can roll them out into the lobby for visitors to see ... Insta page for everyone to see. [carousel image1="77025" image2 ... 't know what to put that day, but I was surprised by how much personality

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  for the space ship to explore the Solar system in 30 years if it is ... and quirky people you will ever know- yes. For learning how to live a ... -Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  . ;-) And to the person who suggested the RSS feed for my blog - fantastic ... Creativity - thanks for your post and I am so sorry to hear about the student at your ... stopped arguing about trivial things, folks started to look for the good in

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  , but team size is 15-18 students rather than 2 for 2.09. Near to 2 ... have enough real ones to make up for it. The Bay Area is pretty conducive ... even put them on the MIT Class of 2012 website SO if you wanted to put a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  decided.  Asia’s reason for applying to WISE was simple: “it was free”. We ... to see for herself that there was always something going on at MIT ... could only say hi and chat for a bit. She thought to herself, ‘how busy

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  Just a few hours to go, and I know you're feeling the stress. We're feeling it too, believe it or not. I have to tell you that the selection ... , wonder and sleep deprivation that MIT students come to embrace. I don

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  , waiting for me to unpack it again in August. One of the many things Stress ... some reflection, I've come up with three reasons why it is hard for me to ... . According to my own personal [annotation note="p a t h o l o g y

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  same applied for 7.013 in the spring. Alright - to be honest - it isn ... knowing how to swim. For the math requirement, please refer to This ... important for you to get your Calc GIR out of the way as soon as possible

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  everyone a place to go for Thanksgiving dinner, and we tell residents to feel free to invite their friends and classmates. This year, we cooked for ... stuffing than I care to count. Personally, this is also my favorite night of

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Like Never Before Kevin Rustagi '11 talks about the MIT LMC and then some.

  

  LMC (Live Music Connection). To be brief, the MIT LMC is basically a ... website, as well as iTunes. Kevin gave me a copy of the CD, titled Like ... (Live)) . In addition to talking about MIT LMC, Kevin also gives his

  • by Celena C. '12
  • August 30, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  [/annotation]are harder to motivate for oneself when there is no clear rewarding outcome. It ... spread out), it's common for either you or your partner to be ousted from the social group and it can become hard to turn to the circle for help

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  own person and that I have to take care of myself and I have to make ... am discovering who I am and building the person I want to be. I am ... decorate my room? Does this person like me (the person can be referring to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  lose a life for each such word. I’m supposed to meet up with my advisor ... things where MIT tries to compensate for beating the crap out of everyone ... for us. But to get to Woody’s, we have to go through All That Is Wrong

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014