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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  country to visit the great state of California!  Growing up on Long Island ... a shuttle with a lot of other students each day to JPL.  There is also ... one that Herbert is working on.  Some of the major projects at JPL

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  I promise to do my best to try. If you have memories of Woodie or ... introduction: to the tens of thousands of FIRST participants around the world, and to the decades of MIT students he taught in Mechanical Engineering

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• 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 ... year, there were 50 mentors, which is a lot to coordinate). Also, because ... is the time to explore, so do make use of it. Of course, exploring is a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  .999% of the time. But alas, I cannot teach you in person, so here is a how-to ... A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of ... . And there is one really, really cool thing you can do on chalkboards

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  is, or how to go about acquiring it. The other type of depression is ... depression. One is “anhedonia”, or the inability to feel anything, unable to feel happiness or pleasure. It is described as a type of numbness, a numb

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Events

  How to have dinner with your Professor and have it paid for by the UA!

  

  and 2-5 friends can ask any of your professors out for a feast, to any restaurant. It'll definitely be better than dining hall food. Which actually ... incredible opportunity to develop a closer bond to some of the world's best

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  't want everyone to be the same -- part of what makes MIT exciting is ... individuality to be applying to MIT. What we don't want to see is immaturity or ... and it is hard to predict how flexible or concerned any individual

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  perhaps it is an appeal to something which happened on a historically ... 're going live on 12/17 at 12:17? No. What they have to with is this: history ... some other momentous events from history which occured on 12/17s past

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  Wednesdays, or Tuesdays and Thursdays, where on each day we have a chunk of 3 ... trips, and guitar hero III. I learned how to ski; I beat a song on hard; I ... folks again this time to do some research on the payload (science

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  't white or Asian (two labels which together described just over 99% of my ... relatable or helpful for you. There's a lot of different ways to deal with issues like these, but I think one of the most important things is to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  seen him on NumberPhile, or you may have read one of his books Humble Pi ... of trying to give a sense of what four (or more) dimensions kinda means ... mathematically, but actually trying to visualize higher dimensions is a bit of a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  . The case of Patagonia is also in stark contrast to the United States ... many perils of harassment or discrimination. I did not stop to consider ... , girls, or gender non-conforming, it is always a privilege to meet

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  should build a new version of this which is better in the sense that it ... which corresponds to 36.90% of the world's urban population! People ... iafisher.com website which features a series of geography quizzes regarding

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  to design or machine parts or whatever it is they do. Ditto computer ... professionals to spend time on outreach. I don't think that this is because STEM ... energy crisis, you win. The path to getting respect is: work really hard on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  no more than an inch or two of snow at a time, figuring out how to stay ... is making sure you don’t overdo it. A good rule of thumb is to have a ... clutch. The general idea is to invest in a pair of boots that are warm

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  to avoid it is kind of a problem, which is why there is currently a ton ... This is another one of those entries that's going to make admissions ... a variety of reasons, none of which I'm going to touch. The long and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Frank Zappa played The Pope on an episode of Ren and Stimpy. To begin with, a World Cup fan with the fortuitous name of "Go ... football (soccer) fan eh? Your comments sounds like a girl's who is trying to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  on campus at the ungodly early hour of 6:30am, then headed off to the ... my new year's resolution for this year is to manage my lifestyle better ... top of that, I”m a news editor for The Tech, which requires me to be

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  first to create a portrait of a person or a place. Abby showscases this ... on an issue, either showing both sides of an issue or heavily ... pan to me, or even walk backwards as I walked forwards. One of these

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  time to time. Let me know if you intend on making one of these blogs, I ... have a couple of things I need to tell y'all. First, Blendie (the Rrrrrrr part of the title). I could devote an entire entry just to this, but

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008