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• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  of now I think you can make local calls for free. If you're like me ... the price. You can also look around your hometowns for used bikes or ask ... clock. Bring something that you can rely on and that will actually wake

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  month. You all need to decide where you’re going to college next year ... where you come in. Decide my fate! Vote what major Shannon should choose ... freshmen can’t actually declare course 20- you have to apply sophomore year

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  can't tell you honestly where I'm headed. I don't know that much. I do ... Where to begin? Well, in order to understand me, what drives me ... , depending on how you look at it. I was 8 and lived on the outskirts of one of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  If you go to MIT, the odds are good that you'll get a B at some point ... the sophomore version of pass/no record. More specifically, you get to choose one class per term as a sophomore; if you get a grade you're not

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  you to have a wholesome Ash Wednesday David S. '21 is only eating the ... at 1 where I worked until 5:15 and went back to my dorm but on the way ... around 6 but stopped by desk to pick up a package from Amazon (canned

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  cuts in, and it shows the result you'll get when you unfold it. It ... 2009: The fantastic thing about SnowDays is that you can share your ... website, you can see other people's comments, and write a comment yourself

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  , Gauss' Law. You're cool. The rest of you can go away. No love, Keri ... . Dear fates, Why do you hate me? You get no love either - Keri 5 PM ... . Oh hey, self-esteem. It's nice to see you again. Am sufficiently

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  program so far. I figure you can go look at pictures of the French Riviera ... . Situations that you could never encounter in an MIT class, but where you just ... DID YOU KNOW? Frank Zappa played The Pope on an episode of Ren and

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

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  where I can predict what they’ll say next because we talk literally ... , as i have done, as i can, as i shouldn't, etc."]“as you should ... can do it, you’re an academic weapon” or “push through, you have the

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  never going to leave the country. I always get this before I travel anywhere (e.g. "I'm not actually gonna get there tomorrow because something ... outside of what I've always known get realized was really striking. I was

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  can be said of when I lost (games 3 and 6) where I lost the lead once ... . You can try it out. Especially if you're bored like we are. Depending ... , if you're wondering why I'm back, you can pick one of these as an

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  of contraceptives that you can get depend on the type of student ... basic tuition, you can get a lot of services for free at Medical. You can ... % effective!): A PSA to all MIT students with uteruses: YOU CAN GET AN IUD FOR

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  general. A lot of you talk about getting into MIT as though it is your goal ... school, you think "I just need to get into [top college]. Once I get into ... are good and keeps you going when times are bad. That gets you out of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  , there can be multiple ways to get to the same point, and you have to be ... you’re trying to print something huge, you can’t have a regular printer ... robotic arm, so you have to do way more math to figure out where the tip of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  working on taking this invention into the clinic, where it can be used to ... of the faculty and students at MIT, and you can be a part of it! ... their attention to the gecko. Geckos can scale smooth walls at a whopping

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Almost Famous You probably think this entry is about me.

  

  . And you should know that. It also resulted in me getting this delightful ... DID YOU KNOW? "This Jesus Must Die" from Superstar really sounds a lot like "People Are Strange" by The Doors. Hurry up, I think you only

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  dialogue: “Ravinder, you can do calculations in your head that the average person needs a calculator for. And yet you fail in Math. You have a gift, so use it wisely. You want to bet? But bet legally. Not streetside

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  just did in 20.109 (Bioengineering Lab), engineering a system can mean ... , you have to prioritize which input is the most important in your final ... covered that. Let me explain to you my life in the context of those ELLs in

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  dance floor kits and components (you can see most of these on the webpage ... 're just chillin," says one member. You can make business your pass-time, too ... that has some sort of entertainment value will get its 15 minutes of fame

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  've gone through Rush enough to get a bid, you probably already know ... heuristic get to you. MIT fraternities are very different from fraternities in ... that's not right for you. You can trust them. If you want another

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011