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  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  students can learn about the various organizations on campus, how to plan large events, get funding, and how to get involved in student activities ... many companies will be eager to hire. But how do you talk to companies at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first time I ever went to New York City it was to ... , there's nothing like coming home to a pot of boiling beef stew and this ... Little Richard's commentary. I'm really glad that I'm not going to have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  , cultures, and so many other things as well, so we wanted to capture small vignettes of this to communicate how diverse this campus truly is. I'll spare you the details of how challenging it was to produce a documentary on a

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  general or how to get one? (Thanks to Anjana for help with the title. I ... the Google Alert. You can set it to email you whenever a certain ... alert. After opening the email, what I began to read about seemed like a

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  . Some of you seem determined to make this personal. I don't know how to ... every right to be asking it. I certainly would be. I wish I could get ... most likely, you are absolutely qualified to be here. Can I look at your

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  The four questions I'm going to address: 1) "It seems like the food availability on campus is a little scarce. Do you have time to cook, even if it ... have time to pursue other things as well as research? 3) "Do you know if

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  What was I looking forward to most when I arrived on campus for ... HUGE envelope full of colorful stuff for you to drool over.” of course ... . What could MIT give me that could top those three? I went to the second

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  always having baked goods to offer. She studies Course 6-3 at MIT, but in her free time, she blogs at FoodParsed, where she shares easy-to-make recipes with the rest of the world. If you're interested in learning to cook

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  me, "Isn't MIT supposed to be super hard? How do you find time to have fun?" I think this is a very interesting question to pursue. So one ... early evenings throughout the Infinite Corridor as I head to different

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  about how many pages of paperwork the MIT Athletics Department (DAPER) is forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the first thing I had to do was ... lists all of the forms that need to be filled out, along with their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  lecture halls to Athena clusters, 15” Dell Inspirons clutched tightly under-arm, to scintillate our understimulated brains by opening emails with ... -2024 bore witness to my transformation from a directionless physics major into

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  ? or was it taught to them, and if so, when and how and by whom? i ... for most of my life i was very prone to envy. part of that was ... , and so on - but it also extended to non-academic endeavors as well. for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  ’t actually know how to do them. And this “fake it til you’re happy” thesis of ... I’ve been hesitant to write a blog -- especially one that pertains to ... but god, this semester is not what we all wanted it to be. So all the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  lyfe) and about how to mentor younger people and run large groups. I had ... 't know how to do a traditional task, or when my predecessor was officially ... . Maybe your experiences were similar to mine; probably a lot of them were

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  shaky at first (this applies to all players, no matter how great you are ... unconvincing win in the group stage and how disappointing it was to see that, but ... I had nothing to do and how it was such a waste of time. Now one day

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... and walking to the Cambridge train station in sub-zero temperature, say ... cold, but still!) Then I took a train to London at 6am and another train

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  PRIVATE TRANSPORTATION This includes but is not limited to cars ... the beginning of the year, so it's perfectly feasible to get an inexpensive bike here. It also makes it easier to get to really nice places over

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  how many times you have to go for it to pay off; the calculation of how ... , and semi-permanently, knowing how much you've grown to love the whole ... summer. It's been an interesting summer; I've really enjoyed being able to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  schedule regular times to see my friends, weekly or biweekly. put it ... friends and ask how they're doing. do this regularly (toons does this formally, every rehearsal) take my friends off campus (the bus to wellesley

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  . Basically, the book is about a bunch of strangers coming together to live in an apartment, only to find that they're all related at the end to a ... the heirs that the race is on to claim his treasure, and leaves behind a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008