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• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  doing projects for my HASS classes, and twice a week I’d sit down to grind ... you’re doing, because it’s okay not to know and to ask for help.” “No ... intrinsically liked MechE for a long time, and how I chose that I didn’t want to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fold, Throw, Recycle I used to get in trouble for doing things like this.

  

  In kindergarten, I used to get in trouble for throwing paper ... this email just now in my inbox. I might try to revive my skills. For more on MIT AIAA, check this out. Photos from the event to follow.

  • by Bryan
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Homemade mayonnaise is actually acidic enough to kill ... , endless categories, and I want to fill them all with my insights on The MIT ... . It almost makes me want to stop writing my usual blog entries about

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  “Walking in LA” by the Missing Persons and “Welcome to New York” by Taylor Swift, with which I have been annoying my family for almost a decade now ... city is so hyped up. The reasons other people seemed to have for loving

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  blog entries that I completely lost the motivation to finish as soon as I graduated and went home to spend a wonderful summer outside in the sunshine. (To answer the questions from my previous entry: no, really, I graduated

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  for Windows. I travel more than I used to, mostly to visit friends who ... just staring at computer screens trying to solve puzzles for “fun.” Last ... might stay here for a few years, and it became I'll see if I'll want to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  , and I have to go shopping for microwavable popcorn. Still, I can ... . I take a five-minute break to check Facebook for messages, and spend ... grade each of them on an A+ to F- scale (wondering for the umpteenth time

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Looking ahead to IAP My favorite MIT event...period.

  

  Eveyrone! I know it's hard to believe but IAP is fast approaching and, along ... , January 12th at 12pm in Lobby 7. Thanks! Jennifer for The Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb At Midnight ------------------------------ Just to show

  • by Bryan
  • November 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  , but the Admissions Committee will primarily look to this report for your ... appeared on your MyMIT Tracking. The deadline for ECs to submit their reports ... to check on any such documents (there is a time for this later

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  Some of you asked for pictures of a Senior House dorm room, and I decided to do you one better and give you a bit of a dorm tour! So here are a few glimpses of the Haus. (The Haus/House spelling used to be an

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  little worse for wear after yesterday's heavy flying. The time to beat was ... . Adam (who we are forever and ever indebted to for his amazing flying, and ... :30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  ’s schedule. Luckily for me, my classes are unique enough that I don’t spend ... , I’m taking Genetics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Introduction to Acting, and two classes for the GEL Program. Mine just might be the most random

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  . One day, to us on Earth, is defined as the time it takes for the Sun to ... . For another, their signal is very VERY weak compared to most of our ... , and get big computer clusters to "fold" it for me. When it finishes, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  program for teens who want to get into MIT right after middle school. The ... the harder subjects for the senior-year projects when we get to use real ... Since its founding in 1861, MIT has been a special place for

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Cómo Elegir Una Computadora Portátil Para la Universidad

  

  sin un sistema operativo. Después de tres días, a merced de How-To Geek ... . Algunas tiendas, como Best Buy, incluso le devuelven dinero en forma de crédito de ... portátiles en mi carrito de compra en línea de la tienda Best Buy que tenían

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  during our travels, we get to meet amazing students and talk to them in person about what it's like to be a part of MIT. But even MIT hasn ... personal side to your knowledge that might make it even more interesting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  ("Beethoven to Mahler", for you words people) takes up the baton and covers ... Beethoven to Mahler Last semester, I took my first music class at MIT: 21M.235, or "Monteverdi to Mozart". 21M.235 is offered in the fall, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I’m waiting for my green card?

  All applicants are requested to fill out the application with their current citizen status. In our first-year admissions process, you ... green cards are considered to have non-U.S. citizen/non-U.S. permanent
• Blog / How to MIT

  how (not?) to concentrate a quick guide

  

  food; order more Wait for more food to come; browse memes They forgot the breadsticks; call back Eat food Wait for breadsticks; try to ... Try to concentrate on assignment Fail Browse memes Try to

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • May 9, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  vindication I felt, being able to root for her, was strangely freeing. I wonder ... 't budge. I couldn't bring myself to say anything. He asked for consent an ... felt liberating to forsake a personal life, and when I was younger, I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022