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• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  like a tourist" guide is not to stand around like a moo cow in front of ... there. At MIT, we refer to rooms in a format like this: 10-100 (the ... (only about a third to a half of whom are here for the summer, mostly

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  centimeter of precipitation - enough to finely coat the Earth's surface with a negligible amount of snow - to be a shocking amount. And that's understandable ... canceled due to conditions that make a compelling case for not having classes

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  comments to a post in some older blog y'all don't know about, when I was so ... torn apart my house trying to find a crowbar so I could break into my ... My introduction to most of the MIT Admissions staff - aside from my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  covering everything from Kanye’s visit to Harvard’s design school and a birth on a D.C. metro platform to wild architectural proposals and all the ... other writers/editors, a lot of the discussion boiled down to: what are

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Residential Life

  how to grow a vibrant kresge just add sod

  

  [/annotation] even with recurring episodes of tent.     This is a guide to ... in a non-competitive climate. This makes it weaker and easier to kill ... torment season. From August to March, the grass in front of Kresge is hit

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  bags to make our car dip just a little bit. To my left in the line for ... ones I will notice. I found out yesterday that I'll get to be a blogger this year, so I know it’s a bit eager to be starting to write already

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  monitor, and I was finally compelled to clean my room so I could get a ... motivation for my project was to test if we could quickly prototype an API (a ... Minecraft bot could do, I decided to focus on food recipes. Ideally, a human

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  to cook breakfast or lunch each day unless i bring a sack breakfast and ... 's paint night or a movie or going to Harvard to eat and window shop or just a bike ride. To summarize, simply become a reasonably well

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  orange books that tell you everything from how to do a 360 with your car to how to escape from a well. Today's lesson? How to Foil a UFO Abduction ... better and ready to apply to MIT now? BananAPPEAL quandries: 1) Is MIT a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  -taught dancers I've met throughout my life, seems to be a pretty common experience ... because I already learned a dance to it, don't like it, or think it's too ... . obviously, I don't have the time to watch them all, so I've developed a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  nights Time kept a rhythm, while we scraped along Now we start to peer ... Dial Gold." So due to my mother's frugality, I bought a huge package of ... ) Since this blog isn't going to be "substantial," here's a really cool

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  . there's really just that element to a live performance—maybe it's knowing ... something you use to eat a meal at a dining hall. people who live in dorms with dining halls are required to purchase a certain number of meal

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  to a vocational high school to study information technology. There I took computer repair classes to prepare for the CompTIA A+ certfication ... business at home to raise money for college. Choosing a laptop for college

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  This weekend I went on a rafting trip down the Kennebec river in mid-to ... saw the aurora borealis. I'm a little too sleepy to blog about all of ... would encourage you to join me. Maybe, if I'm so motivated, I'll write a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I went to a World Cup Game!!!!⚽⚽ and why I think it's just like Pokemon

  

  was fortunate enough to go to the Germany v. Paraguay game!! I've been a ... ; But I have a confession to make: I've never watched a full soccer game ... then I actually went to a game. AND IT WAS EPIC. WHAT A GAME. I love the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 2, 2026
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  [/caption] This rice cooker holds a special place in my heart compared to our other ... family a few weeks after we came to America. At this point, we didn’t have ... ’s frustrating to hear “listen to your gut” and “use your best judgment” in a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  to pretend they didn’t. My mom has always told me that crying is a sign ... excitement, a mobilizing force that will propel me to want to learn more for ... into college. We can count on ALWAYS being in a rush to accomplish more

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  Here's one less thing to worry about when applying to MIT: Students apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the ... asks students to list their "course of interest" only, and the choice
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  be a froshie and going to REX events (you have no idea how easily this ... =_____=)) But anywhoo, back to the actual subject. In many ways, I still have a ... Controls That Don't Work The Way They Are Supposed To. (a often circulated

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  my first trip to the farmer's market in Boston, on a lovely Saturday ... went to go do some yoga at a great (and affordable!) place on Newbury ... from Newbury St. all the way to Haymarket. It was a lovely day--a bit

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016