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• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  now... In any case, it's easy to get lost in the details of MIT as a ... year in Burton Conner, as I was still settling in and still used to ... aiming to get tonight? Do you have enough food to survive?  With whom will

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  tell us in the essays. Think about why you are applying to MIT. Do a ... that the interview is not only a way for us to get to know you better, but also a way for you to get to know us better. Show up on time

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  this week and she wanted it to be posted in honor of the November Rule ... to discuss sex and learning about ways to engage in enjoyable and ... Offered By MIT Medical Free and Readily Available to Everybody (walk-in, no

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  professions, in a way Santa and Poseidon both have a lot to do with to snow. I ... Here’s what I woke up to on Friday morning: massive snowflakes, falling sideways and sticking to everything. I wasn’t brave enough to take

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  , and it's been...exhausting, in a sense; I miss being able to bump into friends in the halls, at Stud, or as I'm hurrying down Dorm Row to class. I went to campus recently to get a [annotation note="all students were

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  isn't meant to be an "Oh non-MIT people just don't get it" in a snobby ... connect with people. I have many friends in my work and I'm grateful to ... good. I never know when to shut up, and I'm the loudest in the room half

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  their moments, but it's all in order to prepare you for your ultimate pass ... 250 C or when I want to sparge the water with helium to get out any ... magnetism are actually kind of the same thing, I started to get a little

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• 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…

  

  room to get a drink and trip over freshmen psetting together in my ... seems to taking in far more frequent, two-length cycles. In the last two ... plasmid formation to the accessory optic system to gender roles in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  replace your recurring nightmare of being forced to swim the Charles clad in only a beer keg with one in which you are compelled to eat far too much ... somehow forgot to submit the event on the left on time, it's not on the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  you really dropped the ball". So, here's to accountability! Get Fit ... home, I have not stepped foot in the gym. For 2020, I want to see how ... website or anything. I am planning to learn Python in January so! Very

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  -credit basis to drivers until they’ve paid off and own their own vehicle. In ... Assam – it’s famous for its tea and it’s home to the hottest pepper in the ... intuition, was able to straighten the 1/4 in mild steel shaft to near

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  publish two novels anyway), and one day I might want to get an MFA in ... did what was needed to get a bachelor's in computer science. I ... passions for math and writing, and that I wanted to get into a selective

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  objective: "Get to the top of this wall, in any way possible". This flavor of ... get afraid, and have to cope with risk and the limits of safety and your ... getting more and more tired and a fear of slipping creeps in on me. I squirm

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  I get to mentor the four very lovely freshmen who live here in person ... in the world. I didn't know that we actually had to debate each other ... write a really great paper. We're hoping to get it published somewhere if

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  (try “Science, Technology, and Public Policy”). I don’t get to turn in ... weekly/monthly spike in deadlines, I get a continuous flow of work. The ... classes alongside similarly involved people, and thus don’t often get to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  be insufficient in order to get where you need. With my research, it ... draw from in order to get the information I needed in order to be ... , you have to agree with the professor's solution in order to get the A

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  Now that I'm a junior in college, I'm supposed to be almost an adult ... apparently, this means I'm going to have to go find a job- also in the real ... based in Madrid. They asked me to come visit them at the European Career

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  to people all the time who get burned out in classes because it just ... down. Then I'll throw it in the box, and whenever I get antsy about ... meantime, I'm out enjoying all that Oregon has to offer in the way of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  ?" etc etc) I've gotten more exposure to politics than I ever had in my ... though I realized there were other ways to get involved without actually ... like everyone under 40 is crazy about it. I'm not going to get into my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually ... are invited to MIT’s campus in April 2016 to meet expert judges and ... interested in INSPIRE, how should they proceed? A: To start, all you really

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015