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• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  , he shares a lot of wisdom about MIT. One of his posts which I read on ... old methods of learning, or appearing to learn, did not really work. In ... desk space, so there is nowhere to work on paper. In addition, my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  mission to make the world a better place. We deferred 5,853 applicants ... Updates and Notes Form, which will become available in mid-January on your ... deferred students on Saturday. Because of the competitiveness of our pool

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  . From the murder of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, to the tragic ... is barely holding together. As events unfolded a number of questions ... ?" "Are you okay?" "What is the point? Nothing is going to change." "You

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  someone or something." The point of this is to say that it is hard. Your ... -minute speech on one of them, memorized, citing sources. Decisions were to be ... it gets better, and allowing yourself to accept that is important as

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  checking out the forums on The Art of Problem Solving. Tracy, it is best to ... . After that time, it is appropriate to send any documents again, by fax or ... is admitted to MIT is eligible for financial aid, regardless of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  .) LSC GUY: Hello, and on behalf of LSC, thank you for coming to this free ... , here to talk about his movie, Doug Liman. DOUG LIMAN: Hello, my name is Doug Liman and this is my movie. These clips are from a week ago, which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  Being a blogger is a bit of a weird job. Your only task is to write ... expressly intended to be published on the internet for thousands of people to ... 's thoughts on if a topic would make a good blog or how to structure a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  mechanisms which control anxiety. To do this, she performs brain surgery on ... . She is forming a committee which will work to reach out to more schools ... Engineering major (which is new to MIT), Brain and Cognitive Science research

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  concentration, which is public policy. I was slightly skeptical of 17.303 at first ... checked to see what parts of the problem were correct, which parts were ... . One main benefit of this approach is the ability to iterate more quickly

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  accidentally got glue on my eyelids and had to rub parts of the makeup off ... is 24 inches. I saw some videos of people tying two 14 or 18 inch locs ... 'm ashamed to say it does. I feel like the possibility of becoming great is out

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  thanks to our sponsors and to the wellspring of resources that is MIT AeroAstro)--most of the other planes were made out of monokote (which is sort of like ... possible. We wanted our plane, Corn Dog, to fly all three of our missions

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  of MIT's social scene is definitely a surprise to newcomers on campus ... in this situation, MIT Admissions is willing to give an extension on ... ) dorm is that there are lots of upperclassmen around to help advise you as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  “hands-on”. Before I got here I would've listed, off the top of my head: FIRST Robotics (or any sort of robotic shenanigans, really). Rocket ... “mens et manus” to refer to—and second, I never did any of them. Nor was I

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  introverted guy, so it's on me to keep conversations going. One-way is hard, and ... ability to sense which part of a multi-part song you're going to take, and ... usual author is at home in H-burg, I get to tell you about my recent

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  . Or as she said, "It's good to know where you can be better, but it ... developed, which owed to the discovery of restriction enzymes. These guys ... DNA is negatively charged, it'll be loaded on the negative side of the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  -- which, well, is not something to be proud of.  As my friend Steph C. '15 ... of school is to "teach you material."  Tight, clustered deadlines don ... what I am proud of, is the fact that I've managed to put in these hours

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  person wants is to hear me boast or make fun of them. This doesn’t mean I ... and all you want to say is “This weather is wild” and “It’s that time of ... . Perseveration is when someone gets stuck on a topic or an idea. For me

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  few months? three. one of the things i'm supposed to value the most is ... card force of will really embodies. this is a counterspell, which means ... to ponder the meaning of everything. what better time to panic over

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  after a bad breakup, or to binge entire seasons of a show he doesn’t like ... on any midnight walks, 3am snack runs, or even a nocturnal trip to The ... ="Edward is the machine on which I wrote this post! :)"]Edward[/annotation], a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  ? Of landing inside the best Wall Street firm from which to write the ... game of life on the lowest difficulty setting there is. Other fortune ... . The soil in which it takes root is constituted of the moments you make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012