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• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas." Ahhh, New York City, winning the lottery (for Avenue Q), gourmet French Fries, Taboo, Mitra and I got TO SEE ... I am, I got to Boston's South Station at 10:28 AM ready to depart for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to abuse your PNR experience: Go AWOL all semester and then just try to ... transcript. hence, don't try to get a 100"]A, B, or C[/annotation]) or No

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  figuring out how to draw a free-body diagram involving a monkey, a tree, and ... (supposed to be) studying for a 9.24 (Diseases of the Nervous System) test ... really feeling all that enthusiastic about studying. Plus, I had to go back

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  from a direct application to an employer. Everything elsethat they ... networking is to talk to people. Well actually, there's a little more to it ... find an internship, a job or just find people to talk to about what you

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  learn at MIT will be how to fail. Okay, one time I said that the most important thing you'll learn is how to ask for help. And that's still true ... is how to design a robot, or how to calculate the thermodynamic

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I track the progress of my application?

  days to be processed. Materials are not automatically loaded into a student's application—all materials have to be processed. We ask for seven business days to process materials at the busy Early Action and Regular
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does MIT help student entrepreneurs?

  team mentoring approach with groups of three to four mentors sitting with the entrepreneur(s) in sessions that provide practical, day-to
• FAQ / First-year application

  How can I explain my special circumstances?

  plenty of room for you to tell us about any special circumstances regarding ... feel may be helpful to us in evaluating your application. Every
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I reset my password?

  No worries! You can unlock your account and reset your password by clicking, “Forgot your password?” You need the email address you used to ... correctly, you will be sent an email with a temporary PIN that you will use to
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  to know how to work with others. So that's what you'll do here at MIT ... MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student ... collaboration. Students are encouraged and expected to work with each other on
• Blog / Events

  Paris Hilton comes to MIT Just kidding, but I bet that got your attention

  

  talked about the Clinton Foundation and how they were able to bring the ... come to MIT, we wouldn’t even have the time to find rotten tomatoes to throw at her. This past weekend was an extended holiday because of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  what you have to do now? Chill out. Seriously, pat yourselves on the ... something you're going to want to fill with stress. Make plans with your ... DO stuff. Whatever it is you like to do, get out there and get it done

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  everyone takes anyway, so I'm here to explain how your first midterm seasons ... Security Strategy, assess how well the United States is adhering to its own ... to questions I genuinely have no clue how to answer. Since the class

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  rented my first apartment; I had to find furniture for said apartment; I have to rely on my kitchen for dinner, not a dining hall; I have to wake up before 5 a.m.; I therefore try to fall asleep before 9 p.m.; I don

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  's more fun to take classes with friends.) How big is the average class ... certainly useful if it helps me pass a job interview or teaches me how to use ... pervasive in all of engineering, including: How to document and communicate

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  ’s go on a trip. To Salem,” I asked my partner a week ahead of a long ... , I had to choose the latter. One perk of being a poor college student ... part of trip planning was then figuring out places to visit. In my mind

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  knowledge and experience is now a year outdated. Why listen to me every other day when, instead, you can listen to freshmen who are less jaded and ... an avocado that's getting a little ripe, it's much better to eat the

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  , impressionable students training diligently to become Pokemon masters. Never was ... vector is “something that has intrinsic pointiness.” (This also happens to ... students are people just like you and me, except that they like to talk about

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how ARe you today? Do you Nintendo? On an unrelated note, part of me thinks this and this might…

  

  Alright, a quick peak out of blogger retirement today to share some ... 's very similar to Nintendo's other handheld DS systems but includes some ... . Basically, in a ploy to get people carry around their new 3DS systems

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  would be started to float around. How many students would be allowed back ... Many bloggers have been posting about their decisions to live off campus, and their explorations in finding new places to live. Today, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020