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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  fantastic benefit to working in my lab because when I'm done with my work, I ... until then, I'll be trying to get as much experience as I can continuing ... dance shows coming up this semester that I'm going to be participating in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  Ben Jones, The Blogfather, started the MIT Blogs in 2004. The idea behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. MIT was one of the first universities to have
• Blog / Athletics

  Get to know Tim the Beaver! Tim shows off some moves at an MIT men's ice hockey game

  

  siezed the moment. To the 2016ers, here's what you can expect when you arrive on campus in a month and a half! Get pumped! ... spectators waited patiently for the Zamboni to finish during a men's ice hockey

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  comfortable enough to dip your finger in, you are ready to add your cultures ... school students will be leaving home to go to a university knowing little about life outside of their parents' houses. Everything from how to clean

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is ... because you had to write up that pesky problem set in LaTeX? Are you bitter ... that just walking to Next is the faster option. I have a skateboard, but

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  the lecture did happen to be a good time. We learned about how you get ... are caught up in their research, maybe just want to show off how smart ... love every single day.” Does that mean I might try to get an internship

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  ’t die. I tried to take steps that would make getting murdered less ... volunteer to work on someone's farm, hostel, airbnb, or house, and in exchange ... week) In order to write to the hosts on their database, WWOOF charges

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  living in my thoughts a lot and i'm not sure how to write about it in a ... 't include me in their follow forever. in a way, it was comforting to just read ... getting rejected from my top job choice and so i felt a strong urge to bury

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  compelled to remind everyone that it's never the numbers alone that get you in ... were sent in early December. Do I need to get them sent again? I hope not ... ). ------------------------------------- SpeckJr wrote: "I'm definitely sending in some supplementary material to

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are ... , learned independently how to program in Matlab, conducted your full set of data analysis in Matlab, learned how to use Latex, written a 4-page

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  wanted to get more work experience, and those things were true, but i also ... was currently in, and as long as i did so things would naturally get ... strong the urge is to open emails or look at your phone or get up and take

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  another week or two before I get back in the swing of things. Incidentally ... test yesterday and I had to learn like ein bazillion words for that, and ... .112 and 8.01 problem sets this week, working in huge, huge study groups

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  situation anyone in our family encounters. 1. Get psyched. 2. Stay with it. 3 ... the failing gets to be primary. This might sound surprising, since people seem to think that the most important thing they'll learn in college

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  to Boston from a family vacation in Toronto, I took the T back to MIT ... midnight).   As soon as you get off the plane, follow the signs to the Silver ... to read anything in the picture above. You can see the map online here

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You should get this bundle right now definitely clickbait

  

  the games I've enjoyed from it that'll hopefully convince you to get it ... -placement puzzle game, where you put engineers and scientists in certain nodes to try ... I'm taking a break from playing all the video games in this video

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  this is going. Yes, I applied to MIT just to see if I could get in, and ... , precisely, one goes about getting into MIT. My first response is generally to ... 're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  do the independent study in Ask him if he would be able to get the ... , we are taking 6.910 Independent Study in EECS!  We really wanted to ... yeah, here is how to (im)properly get an independent study, a sequel to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  . I bought my computer off eBay in 2015, right before going off to ... computer died. Or the time it took multiple hours to get a simple piece of ... research project...or the time I spent literally ten hours trying to get a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  attachment. It's easy (especially to do a UROP summary), fun, and you get to ... news headlines include: *Macular Degeneration Induces Reorganization in ... *Why Do Insects Stop "Breathing" To Avoid Damage from Too Much Oxygen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  wouldn’t be able to get in, just because you are never fully prepared to ... also knew getting in would be an uphill climb. Oh, and first I had to go ... significant challenges in my life up to that point than getting an A in math

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014