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• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  issue with my group was that we had no idea how many people would able to ... , no matter how frustrating it is! Questions To Start: How big is your ... rent. It's pretty wild how easy it was. ...Then, all you have to do is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  Own Bicycle (exactly what it sounds like), 2.670 (learn how to use a ... known how to MIG weld. However, I did not. I had been trained on TIG ... 'll burn holes you don't yet know how to fix — but not too quickly, or else

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/15/16, at 6:28PM ET

  

  I've stopped watching this sneezing puppy long enough to ... decisions online next Thursday, 12/15/16, at Tau Time (i.e. 6:28PM ET). To ... your MyMIT username and password.   In order to verify that you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21E our major in a diagram!

  

  about the requirements of 21E, and were inspired to make a diagram, sine ... 've taken to meet the req's! Legend GIR = General Institute Requirements ... = Fun and Games: Cross-Cultural Perspectives CMS.100 = Introduction to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 9, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2010

  

  waitlist committee has been working hard since May 1 to determine how many ... waitlist. Within the next few days, we plan to admit approximately 60 ... with aid packages. Admitted students can then choose to accept our offer

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  whether war is intrinsic to human nature, what causes war, how particular ... substantial entries to come this week): First, I saw a link on a military blog (Naval Open Source Intelligence) to a relevant MIT OpenCourseWare course

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Piece of my Heart Hey, look, a Turkish internet cafe.

  

  schedule, and I figured out how to eat. Anyway, I've figured out that you ... apparently caused by a law requiring any restaurant with seating to also have ... to have full internet access from work until Tuesday, so don't expet

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  One of my favorite classes this year is CMS.100 -- Introduction to ... worldwide fan communities. The idea is, people tend to think of media as ... means long meetings with production staff to determine the feel and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  how to grill. I needed people to help carry all the meat in, and store ... government) asking if we wanted to host a community barbecue in our dormitory. I sent out a few e-mails to gauge interests, then replied "yes." At a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  how to fail. Perhaps even more importantly, I always found something ... . It’s already exposed me to a lot, some of which doesn’t even have to do ... expected many things. What I did not expect was to be treated, so suddenly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  r e~ made me realize how accustomed to MIT campus i’d become in the ... about how much i procrastinate on my work, there was nothing to consume my ... college is supposed to be a stepping-stone to adulthood, where

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  IAP for short. It's an excellent chance to do whatever you want! If you want your time to have formal structure, MIT provides opportunities to ... ") at a variety of companies with MIT alumni. I chose to do an externship

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  can link it rather than having to figure out how to word it every single ... 't have to do every single thing at MIT and it is okay! How do I know what ... . How do I get to know people? How do I find community on campus? For me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  environment completely foreign to me and see how well I could do. I arrived at ... and thought to myself how I, a Texan, was going to survive another ... with. However, beyond learning how to run an agarose gel and set up a PCR

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  more piano songs - in fact, I think I've forgotten how to play some of ... had learned how to spin. I probably still could, but this is definitely ... time to do anything because I was [annotation note="this was a mistake

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  financial aid award, when your supplemental forms are due, how to pay your balance, how to find on-campus student employment, and how your online ... answer your questions, so don't hesitate to ask. Let us know how we can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  A few weeks ago, I took some much needed vacation time to attend ... country has had so much progress when it comes to the LGBTQ+ community. At ... admissions officers and college counselors were discussing how we can support

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  senior year and I know how scary it is to package your identity up into ... across the world. I know how frustrating it is to hear "It gets better" or ... MIT. And I know how even more frustrating it is to hear it from the very

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  States. It will not tell the reader how to get into college or how to run a ... to publish it as a free PDF for anyone who wants to read it. Now that it's up, I wanted to direct people to it. The foreword sums it up well

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  tear-inducingly beautiful data visualization that you are about to see ... . I present to you: immersion.media.mit.edu. The Collective Learning group at the Media Lab put together a VERY COOL THING (that seems to be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017