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• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  (although we were allowed to take thursday off for Thanksgiving). I spent ... fairly normally before we'd even left the ER. It's hard to describe how ... Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading. :-) I know

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  of my Notion because I'm not writing this post to show off how ... pilgrimage to Lamont Library in Harvard and camp there for hours. It's far ... down again. Couldn't go to sleep. I watched Hermitcraft videos for two

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  leadership to high schoolers). Like CodeIt, students who serve as mentors for ... learn how to keep them motivated without frustrating them but also without ... for two half-semester courses, 6.0001 (Introduction to Computer Science

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  to get this one waitress when we went out for breakfast, and I ... -and-greet in April, and I compared that tiny get-together to “seeing color for ... living on East Campus for a semester. But then I came back to MIT, and as

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  renovated shortly before I came to MIT, where sound goes to die except for the ... , how to get to these stores and so on...? Sure, Anon (can I call you ... necessary are laptops? Like when you say you've known people to survive for a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  this post will be helpful. How does the waitlist work? We are aiming for ... predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the ... students remain on the waitlist, and how many we wish to take from the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  well. They can range from $10 or $13 for a half hour session to $100 for ... . I worked through the summer, kept my job for weekends during the ... also worked a full time internship during the summer, in addition to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  “adulthood” that I am actively trying to avoid. However, I still must fend for ... there. Odd. I still go out often for dinner, or decide to hang out with ... regardless of what you call it, there are many, many ways to acquire sustenance

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  to be about how you predicted many of the pitfalls of this place. It ... for us. I was talking to two pre-frosh who I would come to know and ... beginning of my sophomore year, I came onto EC thinking of how I wanted to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in Burton-Conner! What you won't see in the i3 video!

  

  I found an old clip on YouTube that I uploaded a long time ago that I somehow never blogged. One day, Adelaide '09 and I realized that we both had pirate hats, lab coats, and light sabers (I know, right?). So, what

  • by Snively '11
  • July 30, 2009
• 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 ... accidentally connected the tungsten stick to the welding arc (for context, this

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

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  live in Conner 2, or plan stuff for REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick ... for this. It's a pretty good gig to be honest. Your application will be ... right outside my office for some spinspiration It's time for those of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  , and for the next several decades—which marked MIT’s move from Boston to ... MIT’s music program would begin to form. For the next quarter ... for a college orchestra. The success of this concert will have much to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• 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 ... to no avail. Finally, we applied for a 5-bed property that's a 20 ... expectations for achieving this were hella low, we managed to pull it off; we

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

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  screen and waiting for that green PASSED to show. [caption id ... finish all my work for my other classes, I'm usually too hosed to even ... , and, surprise surprise, my eczema to flare up! For the past two weeks

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• 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 ... = Production of Educational Videos 21M.601 = Drawing for Designers 21A.502

  • 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 ... For the fifth consecutive year, we will admit students from our waitlist. Within the next few days, we plan to admit approximately 60

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 13, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  place to watch the fireworks in my next entry." Without further ado... 1 ... students and alums often will create special boats for the occasion of the ... , MIT alum Nathanael Herreshoff created a revolutionary design for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  seems like an impenetrable problem. How to rebuild after all this, how to deal with so many displaced people, how to implement infrastructure in the poorest country in the Western hemisphere - and most of all, how to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  pretty psyched to see just how cool the PE offerings at MIT are! A small excerpt from the PE course listing for last quarter. Here's a link to the ... was to learn how to work out in a gym without breaking any fancy

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015