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• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  the tablet. Tablets are amazing. I love them. How cool would it be to be ... I've had dial-up internet for as long as I can remember. One of the ... , then you won't be at a huge disadvantage with a desktop, but it

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  To-Do List for Regular Action Applicants With the deadline a month away, there are things you need to be doing now.

  

  . It will save you and us some angst in the long run. [For example ... MIT website. [If your interview has been waived, don't worry about it, we ... falls before most schools notify. Having an interview with MIT does not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

  of local MIT meet-ups is a positive one regardless of how long you ... MIT Class of 2021 has been assembled, it’s time to welcome them to the ... ’ve been having about MIT: How hard are classes, really? What kinds of things

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  ", so does our admissions committee. The process is long and arduous. It ... 've discussed data and how to understand its validity. All of these posts have ... process and, to the extent possible, explain how and why we do the work we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  open book and open notes. And it does help, sort of; I think you'd be at ... Today I am hijacking Laura's entry on tests, because a) it ... will learn at MIT is not a collection of facts, but how to think about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  its way out, seeing as how it was (thankfully) not renewed for Season 4 ... 's my strategy, and I'm sticking to it. Anyway, now the seniors are long ... . Yeah, that was a few days ago. I was distracted by the front desk and its

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  that i am butchering what kubernetes actually does, i'll just say that it ... realize how foreign that sounded even to me just two weeks ago. it was a ... warm fifteen minute walk. i tap my id at the elevator and take it to the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  lyric is about relationships and breakups, but it’s also how i feel about ... ? is it your work or personal relationships or something else? p: i ... : yeah, i think it’s common for these kinds of narratives to become very

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  language, but the brain does not ignore it, says Perrachione. “The brain can ... is identified, you will find your solution,” says His. “It does not ... enjoy it, for a glimpse of a hot field as well as a bit of the research

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  said and done, i feel better. but i don’t know how to do it in ... don’t want to force them to be happy again, because it’s better to let them heal on their own time. i want to tell them “it’s okay not to be

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where do Trees Come From?

  

  how to keep students from cheating on them. Yesterday in 11.125, we ... does that huge increase in mass come from? I want to hear your answers and reasoning in the comments... just think about it; no Wikipedia! I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  tried setting up a dual boot between Windows XP and Ubuntu but I messed it ... bootloader. After three days at the mercy of How-To Geek and Super User, I finally fixed it. As scary as it was almost breaking our very important

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  something to offer and something to learn—it’s how every class year gets built ... Dear Members of the Class of 2022, It's been an absolute pleasure to ... jokes. Now that I'm leaving the Institute, I feel confident that it's in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  )—and love how every section is so different because it has different pairs of ... 2 hours long, so it’s like a mini DT show. (People can choose as many ... , and I really hope it keeps getting better and better long after I’m gone

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  a lot of it is learning how to learn. At one point a TA asked me ... knew how to persevere. I've already made it through countless classes ... matter how much I probed and poked at it. Of course, it was disappointing

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  Believe it or not, this is not a post about how the bloggers are ... webpage. In fact, it does fill a webpage. A final ironic twist: My college ... -study, grocery shopping (trust me, it takes time to choose between 20432039 kinds

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  ), and I should document it more. The days are long but the years are short ... release how I managed to do this because it is so embarrassing to my core ... me. If anyone has advice on how to stop this I would appreciate it

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  -scale bridge and calculate how strong I could make it for very little weight. I ... of how I could use the course material to design it. Stress, beam ... arriving at MIT, you might harbor the notion that it is a magical place where

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  , what does it mean to be mentally healthy? at the lab where i UROPed this ... no one to mention it to. Only then does it get lonely. "n ... how I feel about the pace--I like that it is demanding (particularly for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  first place, considering how much entropy he put in it.), Stamps, the kind ... Today I will tell you how to get into MIT. You get into MIT by ... solve Shor cells in the C shell.” Long story shor(t), I moved out of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010