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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  modest person so I don't want to embarass him by saying how FREAKING ... can teach generations of MIT students how to create anything they ... MIT.  The honest answer?  THE PEOPLE!  So I'm going to tell you stories

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  big-ticket items like "who gets to live on-campus next year?","how much ... idea how to make one. Finally, I got the [annotation note="more to come ... on the Internet. Due to my lack of unboxing-video know-how, I didn

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  formulas and facts laid out for me isn’t enough, I have to know how to use ... .310, we were allowed to fill one 8.5” X 11 sheet of paper, front and back ... order to maximize the amount of information that I am able to distill into

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  how well your classmate is doing. The goal, of course, is to compare his ... real-time how we measure up to others. This is a bad idea, regardless of ... told us, "how many times I've seen this happen." The goal is to fire six

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  fluorescent glare in the school library, to eloquently preach about how the ... -old's high school. We were there to listen to a presentation about a new program for his junior year that would allow him to merge the arts with his

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  said that she wanted to write up a little entry about how GEL prepared ... coursework, and that’s how to deal with all the parts of your job that aren ... , but luckily some of the core skills of the GEL program taught me how to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  about how to submit work on the web. While we will make every effort to ... music activity at MIT in the music community are encouraged to submit a music supplement via email addressed to [email protected]. For performers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  entry. It's amazing to compare how I act and write now with some of my ... , everything was completely new, and there was a lot. At MIT I learned how to machine, prototype, design, sketch, how to do mechanics and select materials

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  learning how to cook and clean and all of the other skills required of ... things is this blog. I can't tell you how many people told me not to apply ... trip to get fruit snacks from the vending machine. Bryan runs into friend

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  ! how exciting). Adam and I went out to dinner, shopped on Newbury Street ... I sold several old textbooks back to the Coop, sold a few more on Amazon Marketplace, and got stopped next to the Stata Center to take a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  needs legs to stand up right? No s***, I thought. But how can I even ... experience showed me once again how easy it is to get lost in the production of ... to how well you do; so when you do receive criticism, it’s always your

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  you're presented with so many opportunities that you don't know how to ... excitement is. I realize a lot of college is about learning how not to make mistakes a second time and learning how to take control of your life. So

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  reading my posts? How were they responding to it? Was the post successful ... it getting chaotic? How do I make sure that there is variety to the ... about to get incredibly busy again (and after three months of relative

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  uncertain about the process of identifying schools and how to apply to college ... conversations about how to select the final school that she will actually attend ... , do you feel better about how to think about your decision? D: I feel

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  nobody went to her office hours and how she sat around and ate a sandwich ... could take a plane to 77 Massachusetts Avenue in August and call myself a student if I wanted to. (I am, of course, blatantly ignoring the huge mass

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  to me how many MIT and Harvard undergrads know a lot about how the ... 's because we all want to imagine how things would've turned out, in the ... 't know how to drive, I relayed the instructions at all the wrong times, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  ="Introduction to Solid State Chemistry. Satisfies the Chemistry GIR."]3 ... outcome. I don’t think I did enough, despite knowing that I pushed myself to the furthest limits that I’ve ever taken myself to. Looking back, I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  a life in the tech industry." "MAS.863 - how to make almost anything! Really taught me how to actually make most anything. Expect to spend a lot ... and voice and how you can use these as tools to create a persona or

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  the deadline to accept MIT's offer of admission? You need to return our form by May 1 (postmark date) if you intend to enroll at MIT. How much ... I'm back! Here are the answers to some common questions that have

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  fairly normally before we'd even left the ER. It's hard to describe how ... Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading. :-) I know there are a lot of questions in the comments and I'll definitely get to

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005