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• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  ’re fine. Most of the time, the factors are beyond your control, and it isn ... has to be perfect. Sure, quality beats quantity, but the quality of your ... friends in the middle of the night, and just do things spontaneously in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  millions of other people around the world, and Be comfortable with, or ... . We are not particularly picky about the definition of a blog. Broadly ... commonplace. If you haven't traveled much, put yourself in the role of an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  Well, I'm back at MIT after a lovely Thanksgiving in the land of the ... an American suburb. We took the commuter rail out of South Station on ... to laze around and watch War of the Worlds with Adam's dad (um, lame

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  , everything was new, from the campus to the classes to the experience of living ... orientation, and I felt [annotation note="I was older than most of the other ... want one more year of Baker breakfasts with the boys and I want to start

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  't explain (the likes of which you won't see again until prom) and bandwidth ... I love being at the most (a good thing since I spend most of my waking ... not however the end-all deciding factor of whether or not you'll be

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  now it's time to start getting ready for the class of 2013. I've created ... of mine include but aren't limited to: 1) CPW 2) The MIT ID Card 3 ... a giant party that you get to be the guest of honor at. Soak it in

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  you are living somewhere far(ish) from the center of campus (like Next ... just got mine from Costco at the beginning of my freshman year and I ... packs of 5 for $3) and they're great to store in the bathroom. Wash them

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  of junior fall, I lied to my advisor for the first time. He looked at ... dropped none of them. The next semester, this semester, I learned to hedge ... call MIT my home. I feel like a welcome member of the MIT community

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  containing a draft of [annotation note = "I meant to revise this throughout the ... [/annotation] printouts of my 18.200A (Discrete Mathematics) lecture notes The ... ever see one of those social media #inspo posts featuring an

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Where Have I Been? Oh, what a bad blogger I have been.

  

  backend stuff with the web site that was long overdue. Lots of it you can ... biggest weekend of the year, so we begin working on it months in advance ... applications lying around the office. One of these days I should really maybe

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  I saw fireworks from the freeway… Happy 4th!

  

  (Name that tune) Clearly today is July 4th, and thus the festivities ... the Baker BBQ Pits and then watching the show from the amazing roofdeck. Unfortunately, those friends are all spread out around the country this summer

  • by Bryan
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  spoiling extra groceries. Then the last week of the month would roll around ... my initial estimate, with the second column the actual total of that ... the data right in front of me. I could no longer say to my mom, "No

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  loading docks. 2. v the act of finding cruft and hoarding it 3. n MIT ... the day-to-day. Hack = hacking, of course; punt = punting work, playing ... .03, 8.02, and a hass class." hosed: adj the state of being exhausted

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  A Continuing Experiment in Cooperative Eating or, every food picture I have ever posted from pika

  

  's meal, all made here, by us, with friends. (See our calendar for the rest of the week's events; read/watch this if you want to know more about ... The streets are paved with slush, everything is cold, and my pajamas

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15, at 12:15 PM EST

  

  the rest of the committee's ability to read without annoyance ... knew that by reading the title of this blog. But you also need some ... the release of admissions decisions, we WILL be mailing admitted

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  You Complete Me What makes an application complete for Early Action, and related Q&A.

  

  I see that there's been a bit of discussion in the comments about the ... set of scores now; we won't need them until we go into the Early Action ... , we will consider all of your new scores. MidYear Grades: We do not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  That’s where you’ll find me Where troubles melt like lemondrops, Away above the chimney tops... my CPW schedule.

  

  :17pm-8:17pm, Saturday Battle of the Bands, Saturday night CPW ... the information session for visiting high school juniors & ... the Big Screw, 3pm, Friday A quick look in at the Ted Kennedy lecture

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A Round Two Answers to some questions

  

  knowing absolutely no computer programming besides the rudiments of html ... what are some of the classes/teachers you've particularly enjoyed? I didn ... Street. Me? asked: How about sorbet and the such? Most of the ice cream

  • by Bryan
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Making A Splash on July 4: The Celebration in Photos July 4th - A Photo Essay

  

  names, and in the true spirit of MIT, a friend said: Friend: If I had a ... all about the BBQ and fun with friends. I took in the action from Baker ... the day. And also, for more on July 4, check out Matt's Blog. Videos

  • by Bryan
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  2016 as part of the Class of 2020, which means most of my friends are ... most of the remaining time I have with these people, because they're so ... lots of different clubs since my freshman year, but the only one I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020