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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  MIT grad school now, don't expect to get out with a PhD in less than 5 ... who take classes at Harvard use it to get experience in language classes ... possible to get degrees in two courses at MIT in just your undergrad years

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• 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 ... do my part in trying. A smile can go a long way. It is not my job to ... are so freaking capable of adapting to drastic life changes. It might

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 1, 2021
• 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

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  to Earth. Artificial gravity can be generated in space by rotating ... takes a while to get used to. It is important for astronauts to adapt to functioning in artificial gravity before their missions to space. Junior Jenny

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  of chlorine to personal containers as people get their water from a ... you don't have to worry about re-contamination in transit. There ... I included this picture in a previous blog. I was tired of working

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  . Sometimes those people get in. More often (and truly, mostly because of class size and rarely because they're not qualified), they don't get in. When ... /she doesn't make it. In no way am I comparing my feelings to those of a

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  to stand behind the cart and push it in the direction you want to go: the second is to stand in front of the cart and pull it such that it ... ones involved in pulling, it’s easier to maintain good posture, and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Ich Spreche Kein Deutsch. Apparently that's how you say "I don't speak German"...not that I would know.

  

  get to go to Europe for the first time in my life! (2) Teaching's funnn ... In general, it would be considered a good idea to know more than just ... any German. Not kidding: I just googled 'how to say good-bye in German

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  So in hopes to show you more about what classes are like, over the ... scorers won a free trip to Japan to compete in an even larger design ... . The idea is to get as many of these balls into the highest scoring bins

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  managed to get someone to fill in for the clinician. I was given some ... else. I rented out a small room in some building, I learned how to feed ... the toilet. In front of me, next to the door, was a featureless white

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come to MIT Get a free haircut!

  

  interested in learning to cut hair; anyone can email and ask for a cut, but ... break I'm going to get to know my new camera better! I've started using it ... It’s spring break! Time for students to stop frantically trying to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  . Don't go comparing yourselves to other people who did or did not get in ... to wait for me. I have three months left in my undergraduate career, and I'm going to spend it having a blast with the people I love in a

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  phases of my life. a while back, i was waiting in atlas to get my ID card ... facilitated this. good thing i’ve now placed myself in a job where i get to ... , writing. it took me a bunch of bad drafts to get here (nobody wants to see

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  different options next summer... thanks." In response, I have to say that my ... far less to do in terms of taking care of myself when I'm at home! There are a couple considerations to keep in mind when deciding whether to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Fall Hits MIT… in the form of a Giant Spider! I promise I'm not a blog-hog, this is just too good!

  

  Let's cut right to the chase: THERE'S A HACK IN 6C! Natanya ... couple babies! But how did the little spiders get all the way to Lobby 7 ... a web! I've decided to name him Lucifer. He's huge! He has the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  note: you are required to purchase a meal plan if you live in a dorm with ... of the post offers ways to feed yourself in a non-dining community for ... -fry, which required standing in line and waiting for the order to be freshly

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  my final draft) In spirit, not much has changed since I wrote that ... .  But primary sources are so hard to find, right?  Right? Michael's Knowledge Theorem: if you want to learn more about any topic, there's a world

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  , took a trip to Cape Cod, ate our weight in free food and got to raid one ... protesting about “demonisation” in response to proposals to stop us binge-drinking. Under the plans, alcohol will no longer be sold to under-21s in off

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  chance to get settled in. :) By the way, I've discovered that if you read ... even if there's no reason for me to get up, and usually get less, but ... tomorrow, it ends. Tomorrow, I get on a plane and fly to Newark, New Jersey

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  you get in but your friend doesn't; or when you get in, but your arch ... nothing was happening. To be honest, sticking my head in the sand like an ... implications people seemed to give them whenever they came up in the context of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019