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• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  I saw going to college as a rebirth. I really disliked high school. College was a chance to both remake myself in a friendlier mold and to build ... something I have to rebuild. I was a pretty lonely high schooler. I didn

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  : how to delegate things. delegate is a fancy word meaning getting someone else to do it. in esp we have a saying, which is "your job is not to do ... "hey do you want to pick this up?" and neither of you put a date it won

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  encourage other students to work to the best of their abilities; in a sense, there's a great deal of "peer pressure" to achieve excellence. Some of ... lab or get a paper published in a top journal. I have to admit this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  college? what?? Like many I’ve talked to, I’m still stuck a couple ... drink water. (Speaking of which, here’s a friendly reminder to go get ... organizing stuff. I have tried to start using a google calendar, but it’s not

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  night, my mornings tend to (1) start early, and (2) be a little hectic ... order. Time to make lunch! Salad + fruit + almonds + a roll orrr PB ... becoming a doctor, I wanted to get a little insight into the pharma aspect of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  arts to make the world a better place. We deferred 6,210 applicants ... can be a difficult decision to receive. Take a deep breath, shake it off ... decisions. We recognize it's a lot of effort for all of you to apply to MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  decided to clean up the toilet, which was also a photoshoot on its own, with ... wanted to expand the idea and manufacture a bunch of calendars to sell. Is ... a fresh one from Home Depot. We upgraded from trash toilet to lowest

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  locked it up for me, after which we took the bus to Harvard to see a comedy ... was press a button to lock your car and you were good to go? Parking a ... like I am stealing, since I'm only unlocking a lock that is locked to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  , what information to include and focus on, and how to write for a comic ... assignments grew in length (from a 1-page comic to a 20-page full issue with a ... , we read and discussed a new webcomic or graphic novel to see all the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  vacation outlining a lot of changes I'd like to make to MyMIT to make it a ... functionality a bit to make sure you're seeing new stuff all the time. The major part of my proposal was an outline to turn the portal into more of a

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  respite from a very busy IAP (which I'll hopefully get to blogging about ... IAP yet, and I couldn't think of a single unified topic to write about, I decided to answer a bunch of questions from the blogger bot that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring break Q&A: Part 2 where I FINALLY answer the rest of your questions :'D

  

  Thanks to everyone who left questions in my Q&A! I haven't gotten ... 're that ambitious. Work on a project that you've always wanted to work on ... while you're a student, and a class that you planned to take in sophomore

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2026
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  reference, the previous sign was a printed banner which to me felt pretty old ... sheets.   Afterwards, it was time to turn the letters into a format ... to my friend Ty who is a senior in the house that was more experienced

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  . I’m a teaching assistant. To get funding, most MEngs have to TA or RA ... fellowship. In particular, we have the 6-A program, which allows you to intern ... market was difficult and they struggled to land a job. Totally

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  tickets to a performance of Carl Maria von Weber's opera Der Freisch ... class burst into flames of the warring variety, and I was treated to a ... -needed arguments were raised in the early stages of the battle, not to mention a few

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  classes. How to use a bandsaw A bandsaw is this machine with a thin metal ... it into the saw in order to make a cut. To use a bandsaw, after ... a knob to raise the handguard, turn the machine on, and push

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  engaging. Bonus: class participation involves a daytrip to New York City ... into this class on a masochistic whim and loved it. Whether I add it to ... interpreted as a challenge for student groups to 1-up each other in distributing

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  imagine that they all convened at one place to throw a huge concert, and ... stretch all the way down to Mass Ave and around the corner. It took a long, hot hour just to get inside. Now, being a freshman, going to the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  've had to learn at MIT is: hitting a wall is okay!  Actually, it's great ... , find themselves in a place they never expected to be: the back of the ... , something that matters to them. They remind me of a dog chasing a tennis ball

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  slowing him down a whole lot. Skate skis are a lot easier to learn since ... happening afterwards, I went back to my room to take a fat nap, having only ... resonance for an hour straight took a lot out of me, but I was free to look at

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • January 16, 2025