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• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  -adjacent social circles for example, a few months ago i heard about several ... detail, once upon a time i was a staff member for a summer program. there ... world we live in and it probably won’t be for a while, so in the meantime

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  eat a little something before heading out to get to Stuyvesant for an 8:00 meeting. The chance to eat a real bagel was a treat, and a must for me every ... in a plug for your having the interview. Last year I posted a blog

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  inputs for length, width, and height. Make a rectangle using your width and ... too limiting most of the time; they're a good starting point for ... them. Trust me, I've been there. But luckily for you, I've spent years

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  that lay the groundwork for the challenges ahead.  A few things that I ... generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced ... seek ways to unlock the secret formula to secure admission. For starters

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week before my eligibility for student employment runs out, and I vaguely recall ... while I was here.   32. Take a lot of pictures. One of my major

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  numbers for a century and a half now. It'll remain written as a Roman numeral for a long while. The numbers in this catalog are pretty much today ... "acquaintance with good literature". For literature, the catalog lists a whole

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  following Alaska Gold on Tumblr for a while because she writes lovely poetry ... I really enjoyed Ana's recent post about a single day in her life, so I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  important habit, professionally. I have a much broader appreciation for the ... having a home on campus would be important. But it took me over a semester ... with your college family. This should have been as high a priority for me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  India and spent a lot of time preparing for the JEEs, an Indian engineering exam. I thought I would go to a school in India for the longest time ... -country. Simultaneously, I balanced a full-time position at a wine importer's office and

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  with people for a while. 11.20 - 11.27 pm: I zip over to the laundry ... could sleep for a much longer time. I roll over to cuddle with them and go ... ends. I thank my professor for a good semester and leave. I have a 1 pm

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  home for my 4 years at MIT. It was a cool experience starting classes the ... for registration, a booklet that talks about the recruitment week ... with how this decision of joining a sorority has turned out for me. I am

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  weekend CPW's origins are rooted in a program for prospective women and ... –10 for women admitted students, and a Minority Spring Weekend on April 12 ... the Tech in 1986, or in the 1986 Report, except for a single ad thanking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  's insane. Equal in insanity magnitude is I became a blogger in 2008, which ... hometown city appears on road signs after a long drive – so close, but so far. I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) for a while, but ... topics I wouldn’t devote a whole post to, but consider important as ... parts were in one document and both caused a rollercoaster of emotions for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  bed and get ready for work. It takes a long time. I am not what one ... made out a detailed schedule for the week yesterday, so I already know ... , room temp. 10:30 AM. I start making LB agar, a kind of salty Jello for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  Greek Perspectives on the Good Life, a required class for almost all ... , for example, the following hypothetical conversation: A: Why do you ... apply for a UROP that inspires "second conversation thinking" over one

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  again Is it better to go to MIT for undergrad or grad school? Important ... different from each other. For instance, med school places a greater emphasis ... to Do The Thing IMHO, the single most important thing for grad school

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  action on the issues that are important to us. We all need to step up for ... also know what it is. (6:15) The "expectation gap" is a new term for me, but I like it as a framework for thinking about what we want the world

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  halfway through a botched sophomore fall to receive treatment for clinical ... required courses, or that they can only handle three classes at a time for a ... pursue internships; one of my fellow panelists took a semester to work for

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  night prefrosh were here for FPOPs. One night, [annotation note="a ... this post but trust and believe it was also a time consuming process ... I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024