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• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  to be on the Burton half of the building in a double, but my room had ... , "Hey. It's my first day on campus. What better way to start off my MIT ... copy of the How To GAMIT (How to Get Around MIT) on the first floor of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  Believe it or not, admissions officers occasionally try to do things besides reading applications to MIT. One of the things I enjoy doing in my downtime (besides playing with Legos) is watching the Colbert Report, which

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  general rationing problem in which some people must lose out on what is ... strongly depend on the moral measure of intuition to arrive at a solution ... scenarios, either of which will result in loss of life, what scenario is the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  -dimensional person, which is what we strive to do with all the other parts of the ... based on the availability of alumni in your region of the world.  It is ... not, because it is based on the availability of ECs in your area

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  roommate or a room on another floor; of course, you might also decide to move ... it, which is just as well because I don't know what was going to be in ... and is already planning to accidentally-on-purpose show up at scheduled

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . The Media Lab is much better at this sort of stuff than I am, after all ... will get a lot cooler to play with as time goes on. Some of my ... depending on what semester they filter by, which is something I highly look

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  explains his life to me in terms of his calendar schedule, which has ... ’s all this other stuff on top of that”. She’s worried about being able to get a job to help pay for school, on top of doing a lot of great things

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  energy on campus from Day One. I want to share my experience of being an ... . During the first week on campus, MIT organizes a lot of activities to ... 10 or so students to arrive on campus. So, we decided to meet up and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  credit to Mitra Many of you have seen that the MyMIT portal is down. No ... , contrary to what you might think because of its steel industry heritage, is ... one of their specialties) was even better than advertised. Then the Red

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  in a non-dining dorm or you’re not on a meal plan and you want to learn ... on sale at the deli Cheese, like muenster cheese, which is amazing, or whatever else is on sale at the deli Tomatoes (if you like

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  /meters, approximately (or, exactly sizes, if known)? Is it possible to find in Internet ... to go off of or do you know what you're doing like the back of your ... has, but on the page about MacGregor housing there is only wired

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  everyone is, not just in terms of skills or intelligence, but just their ... extremely self-conscious of everything I do, it was difficult for me to feel ... . On Sunday night, we made an impulse decision to watch High School

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  powerful, yet so subtle, which is a facet of it I love. I never get tired of ... know what parts I need to pay more attention to. of course, this is the ... choreography videos for K-Pop songs were available on YouTube for me to learn, so

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  kept piling on, or how i thought giving myself large lists of things to ... , climate change and covid and so on- and all i do is focus on my breathing or ... this state of being is actually fairly similar to the previous one

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  random shit to keep track of, but honestly, I had so much going on in high ... ... Customization is annoying. Bro, what if I want to indicate progress on something ... had to stay on top of. Also, in middle & high school, teachers don

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  much fear of judgment or failure. I still have stories to tell and ... felt that I had stories to tell and no means with which to tell them ... training wheels of the class helped. I learned to think in terms of change

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  market success at a time when all of our conversations are focusing on the ... ," Jones says. It is, of course, just a book, and that's a fine thing to ... time around, but on the morning of July 16, 2005 -- when the sixth book

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  in the service of narrow goals. Be too scared to change for the better ... We're closing in on Pi Day and still in the midst of making decisions, which I know many of you await with varying degrees of anxiety. But while

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  what I know (which is not Google calendar, my iPhone’s calendar, or any ... what I think is either Indiana or Illinois. By the time you read this, I ... , both of which were yesterday. It’s funny how slowly three hours passes by

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  then on pi day all you have to do is follow up that email or note with ... waiting for wifi access (especially on a retreat day where I was supposed to ... thrill of waiting for the admissions results page to load by proxy, via my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014