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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  pieces, and how drawing connects to everything. From 7 to 10pm, the class ... being drawn. How does the angle of the eyebrow compare to the angle at ... mouth now sit? How does the nose size compare to the eye, but also the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  less as a “how to do MIT” and more like a “here is a hodgepodge of advice ... This week, I worked as an Orientation Leader (OL) to help first year students acclimate to MIT. It was a fun, high-energy job. Every OL was

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  I know -- I know how to theoretically gene-edit things with plasmids ... learning how to make your slides something other than sans-serif black text ... Have you ever wanted to feel happier and thought, hey, maybe if I eat

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  realize how foreign that sounded even to me just two weeks ago. it was a ... me five minutes to collect everything i'll need to explain to you how ... weeks, i think i know how to do this task. 5:30 PM after some finagling

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  particular astro-lingo. There is a danger in this: you might forget how to ... workshop where the goal was to train graduate students how to effectively ... of questions because I either know the answer or know how to find it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  . How can a college class bring me to tears just at mentioning it? Shame ... how my nose twitched with frustration as I hit "Yes, I would like to ... hungrily gaze upon the little pieces on the screen as they hop from square to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  money. This probably has something to do with how at MIT you don’t pay ... many hours and in one more hour (it's midnight rn) I will drive to Atlanta to attempt to fly back to Boston since essentially all of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  interested in INSPIRE, how should they proceed? A: To start, all you really ... In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually blog about, I had the chance to connect to Vaishnavi at one of the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  students/affiliates/alumni how to create fancy cocktails the correct way, and ... Ahh my IAP is going to be so cool!!! There are quite a few things ... students have the whole month of January to do anything they want - from

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... password that you use to log in to your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  a lot of time this spring thinking about how to make it more ... me to do the session there since I ate quite a few meals in that same ... closed. But I digress...last Friday morning I was assigned to do the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  how to get your own radio show? Here's your chance! You'll also be able ... ! Hopefully you'll be able to join us for Campus Preview Weekend. When I was a prefrosh, I couldn't make it to CPW, but I visited on my own about a month

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  Pederson won the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 1987 for figuring out how to ... awarded the Nobel prize, bringing the grand total to 63 faculty, researchers ... amazing ability to turn genes on and off at their whim. I used RNAi during

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  the problem was and then verbalize how to treat it appropriately. Is it ... the Early Admits to the class of '10 as I possibly could. And it was seriously a lot of fun. First of all, I finally got to meet Alia and Mike

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  'll start re-reading Harry Potter again to see how many details I missed ... getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a ... : "Today is the last day the world will only have 5 Harry Potter books to

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  actually loved a ton! It was basically just a writing class on how to write ... Hey guys, I first want to start off by apologizing for not being around recently. However, I will make it up to you guys over this summer

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  's phone blaring some YouTube lady telling me how to cook some complex meal ... 's engineering/PM minds to try and figure out how to fit as many features of a ... coming soon) into a new one in the heart of Boston. Unbeknownst to us

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  changes. How one chooses to display data could very well affect what ... overview of how to best organize and display data to gain valuable insights ... graduate, how I got started in VR, every blog post I've written related to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  ." As an unofficial advisor to DreaMIT, I know how amazing our undocumented students are, how much they have contributed to MIT as students, and how much they have to contribute to the nation and the world afterward

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  . Evaluate on these three measures: i) how much fun you had ii) how much progress you made iii) how that progress contributes to your overall ... , reading assignments, projects, and permission not to follow through with any

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015