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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  day would be fairly dull to keep up, at least in my opinion. It's really ... lost it before you could get it down on paper or somewhere else you'd remember? Notebooks were my solution to that. I have pages of melodic

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Simply Brothers Finding brothers and brotherhood in MIT's fraternities.

  

  our tempers and egos to get the better of us. But one way or another, we ... to the contrary, I'm the only guy out of four children. That's right: I have three sisters. And while I love all of them dearly (am I allowed to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  , essays, tests, revisions-- to and fro like clockwork. When the bell sounded for the end of the period no one stood up; instead, heads bent to clear desks- packed with papers, binders- to gather pens and notes, to close the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  want to get you in, have some explosions, show Hugh Jackman half ... credits if you happen to see it. Which isn't a bad idea; you get what you ... think it was edited from a two-hour movie down to the point where it was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  to really get into it. We had our own Baker House jerseys and ... 't really want to go to a "jock school," the kind of school where you had to turn out for the big football game and get drunk beforehand, or where

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  -die in a car, and I’m still unsure why sixteen-year-olds are excited to get ... to get me -- I’d finally found my fellow lizard people! Socializing on ... attempt at pretending to be smart. Getting on campus didn’t fix my tendency

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  in the sense of rushing to try and get an answer. yes, the answers to ... to get, what are you supposed to do with your 80 to 100 years on earth ... trying my best to get into good colleges. But trying to think about the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  competition in getting into MIT and you should want to put your best foot ... about how the interview is an effort to get to know the student as an ... ring and bright black and pink hair. i'm applying EA to MIT and i was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  transcript. hence, don't try to get a 100"]A, B, or C[/annotation]) or No ... -night failure, I decided to get up [annotation note="9:00 is early to some people ... classes get harder[/annotation] and more foreign, I'll have to utilize this

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  state that I have been reduced to[/caption] For people who aren't caught ... . I lied to someone's parents It was[annotation note="Parents come to ... gets posted), starting last Friday. I forgot it was happening. When two

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  months on campus before getting kicked off due to the pandemic. now i ... 't have enough experiences to warrant me being a junior. why am i perceived ... not used to being "older" and "wiser." i took classes with people two or

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  20 Things I Learned In 2020 from a course 20 who is in her 20s

  

  someone I didn't get a chance to say goodbye to :( Oftentimes, there is a ... are so freaking capable of adapting to drastic life changes. It might ... to use. Cartography is still very much a thing. It's okay to not be

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 1, 2021
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  calls it the Brass Rat). Basically, every class gets to choose a committee to design the class' ring. For such a small piece of jewelry, it has so ... appear from year to year (such as "IHTFP" and the ivy leaves), while others

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  what you're going to get. But I do expect that my MIT experience will ... On December 17, 2011* at 12:17pm EST**, I was accepted to MIT. After ... . That's a difficult question for me to answer, because there's so much I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  related to photography. I’ve taken plenty of HASS classes in my day, but this is the first that doesn’t seem like work. That’s not to say that I didn’t enjoy my other classes (I’ve been known to offer to take on other

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  much get to watch videos in every class and check out various photographs ... /high-schooler, you should get your science administrator to check out this page, so we ... - Thanks to this class, I'm finally learning MATLAB. This class is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  studying astrophysics at M.I.T. had to get him to explain exactly what that ... graduate school, Garay plans to get a jump start by attending a summer ... herself completely so I could get to this point." An appreciation for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  !) and busting my butt off at my JOB. I chose to get an internship in ... I went to 9-to-5 life in downtown Manhattan. Some of you might have ... world. One other thing many people do during IAP is get an internship. So

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.

  

  , it'll get you where you need to go, but sometimes it breaks. If it ... day at work. Due to a lovely and thick stacks of nondisclosure ... ' toys, are then sent to packaging so that they have a solid model to mold

  • by Snively '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  won't learn. What's the point of taking classes to get them over with ... love!-- there's obviously a lot of strife here, and I just wanted to ... makes up ~7% of the class each year. Is that a lot? That's hard to say

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007