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• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  dreaming of schools where they didn't have to worry about getting wedgie ... room to get a drink and trip over freshmen psetting together in my ... advice blog (written by someone who went to all her Tuesday classes with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  these commercials, I really don't know what to tell you except turn on the ... , however, is about making the switch from high school to college. If I had to make a shortlist of the changes that I made or had to make when

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Written Post Oh man my handwriting is atrocious

  

  not get to draw Beth R.F. '18 and Crystal W. '18 properly. Here they are ... like her little doodles, and I still get extremely happy whenever I find

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Want a bike? Get a fairly decent bike at the Next House bike auction

  

  I'm done with the MCAT! Well, at least for now (we'll see once I get ... 3rd week of school, but you can usually get something ridable for ... can't wait until then, I suggest going to http

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  companies, Sam says, is that they can aim to get 10% better every week. Short iteration cycles allow them to get feedback from customers and improve their ... goal of colonizing Mars.  You can't get to Mars without making a lot of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  exposed to other ways of getting around, I'm thinking about what I want to ... to go running. Usually when I spend four days without exercise, I get ... love seeing the city closer up, getting to know all the roads

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  fortunate to get a D. In fact, I hadn’t been that happy about a grade since my ... than I ever admitted. But I did, undeniably, fail to graduate on time ... dropping all classes where it was clear I would get a B or lower. How did I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  , I need to supplement my diet with human food. So I took a picture of ... blog post, and here it is. This came out as an experiment to figure out ... for most of his lunches and dinners, for example. Come to think of it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  “unlike any other” place that is MIT, we still had to get back home to the ... full day on Saturday while surveying the yard in anticipation, I said to my partner, Janyce, “Come on, we’re driving in to Cambridge tonight to

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  's Ring Premiere to get an idea of what I'm talking about. There are some ... misfortune to be around me the last few weeks. All I do is complain about the ... crazy lately. Plus, at home, I never have to walk 15 minutes to work

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  My Funny Valentine No kissing on Valentine's Day.

  

  to my Valentine who will get her Valentine's day kiss when I'm no ... infection rendering my voiceless and without a desire to eat. So I think my ... Medlink. Enter Medlink, Mike. Medlink Mike: What seems to be the problem

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  I'd like to publish on this blog some of your reflections about applying to college. Not just applying to MIT, but the entire college ... excitement, the same fears, the same pressures. I'd like to provide an outlet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  Pounds, 17. "I'm so ecstatic to get into college life." What drove her to ... CL South junior goes to MIT a year early Date March 27, 2006 By KAREN ... prompted her to study hard and earn good grades. That hard work paid off in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  So summertime brings me to a crossroads in life, my fraternity's chef gets a summer vacation, I'm morally opposed to eating Top Ramen or hot ... than those flavor packets. What is a bachelor (laughs) to do? One

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-year Grade Reports And Other Common Questions Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the last…

  

  has not been received, we will personally contact your school to get it ... Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the ... MIT has received my mid-year grade report? You really don't need to

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  a blogger outing to go get ice cream! Best day ever! Argh, now I have ... of the day is that I got to eat lunch with MIT President Hockfield today. Apparently she asks five or six students to eat lunch with her

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  and ready to mail. And again, you will have to wait to get your letter ... forward to watching "The Incredibles" tonight and not thinking about ... 've been lucky enough to work so far with Stu, Quinton, Salvador (the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  't promise to get to them soon, but I'll try my best. For reference, I've done ... in the comments we didn't get to answer (watch the webcast for the ones ... pretty common. I've been trying to encourage the freshmen to get 7+ hours

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  navigate through a maze, and I started to get the hang of Python. I started ... development' or 'I want to learn C++' I committed to it by getting a book from ... .189 Intro to Python to get up to speed for 6.01 in the fall. Even if you

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  friends, you're likely to finish the movie and the pizza and get into a ... CPW, or throughout the year...how do you get to do this? There will be a ... before 9, so even if you go to bed at 3, you can still get some solid hours

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006