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• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  "]ghost[/annotation] UROP for my lab, and creating an entire personal website from scratch ... seminar program that was literally just for teaching you how to do good on ... internships really wound up lining up for me this year. I was lucky enough to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  tools and devices that were redesigned to be inexpensive enough for people to afford. A major challenge for many people is finding fuel, usually ... professor could ask questions for the students to answer with clicker remotes

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  taking...) -- according to the website, "The swim test requires that you ... It is currently 10:53 AM. I have been at work for three hours and fifty-three minutes, and I want to take a nap. Since that is not really an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  looks to his or her peers for validation or rebuttal. He is overly ... , he is admitted to the Class of 2011. Let's back up for a moment and ... provide help to his peers than to ever ask for help. In this way, he became

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  to do this for me. Later (in a silvery package) I received an official ... medical; y'know, places that have to deal with my legal name. For the most ... Bridge finalist. My friend, was accepted. I was so happy for him, but I was also

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  other. For example, when I look back to high school, I was surrounded ... appealing pieces and a better life. You'll know how to gauge for success in ... . Before I came to Boston, I dedicated quite some time to ironing out the

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Commencement Webcast MIT gives me a diploma in T-3 hours...

  

  Well, here it is- the big day. I have to report to the athletics center in about 20 minutes to get ready to line up for the procession into Killian Court for commencement. (Unfortunately the weather isn't nearly as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  a ring for 1000 people can't be easy, and no one is ever going to be ... thing: I personally would have preferred to have a woman on the ring. Why ... the seal features two men. But here's the thing- I'm still going to buy

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A ... person with some unique circumstance) and you open up your grade report to ... - “Absence satisfactorily explained to and excused by the dean for

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  my other classes. After using the search tool online, I managed to ... to know what to pack, how to eat for cheap, etc, let me know! ... So while I like to pretend that I don't procrastinate sometimes, up

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  .). People start gathering for the concert at noon, but you can also listen to ... determine the right trail mix for your personality. That perfect trail mix was ... my turn, but I look forward to taking this most useful personality quiz

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.270 What's a 6.270?

  

  just an intro, with future information to come. The main reason for this ... root for Team 9 (also known as Team Awesome). We're in it to win it! Our ... Who knows what course 6.270 is without having to look it up? Anybody

  • by Snively '11
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Collections Simple

  

  getting rejected by a lot of things. I've been dating the same person for a ... thankful to MIT for letting me do something so niche for such a massive ... best two weeks of my life. I am so thankful I got to leave America for

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  person. Thank you for being my shoulder to cry on for all these years ... For my (maybe?) last blog post, I felt that it was only fitting to ... up and teaching me how to grow from my mistakes. For pushing me out of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  MIT Look For?", but that was really a way to open a conversation into ... , that my to the question of what we look for is the kind of thing you can read on our "What we look for" page, or that my response to "how can I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  better. It’s weird to feel so connected to someone I don’t personally know ... goes especially for science communication. I have been subscribed to ... and Mr Wizard and Beakman and it was very hard for me to watch those

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  carved out a good niche for my artistic inclinations to speak from personal ... you about, only to find it's actually an electric drum set for which ... -sided die to determine how much you'll pay for the show; being notified that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Dang Right, We’re Cooler Than You On the eve of Decision Day (D-Day), I bring you three things that adds to…

  

  speak for himself: "You wanna go to Harvard? I wanna go to MIT. You ... ." Just watch the video - it speaks for itself. A big thank you to all the ... who happens to drop by! Think of it as a CPW for adults =p - check out

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  website!) After that, my Mom wanted to go [blueberry ... over to King Orchards. All the blueberries were picked for the season, and we didn't want to pick prickly raspberries, so we went for the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  for advice on how to make time for personal projects during the semester ... DISAPPOINTED upon hearing this - you thought for a while that they were going to ... november 29th, 2022 10am: you attend nano lecture but are unable to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022