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• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  know now (some tips!) Have one day in the week where you all get ... define your budget and expected costs. You can't expect people to live with ... you get the right people who are reliable for the job. Take into account

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  applying to us for Regular Action, but we presume you're getting a lot of ... admissions cycle. As before, you can apply to MIT at this link.  We have ... we can.  By giving you some more time, we are also supporting our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  ’ll find a group of people where you’ll feel like you belong. If you can ... ’s awkward to get a call during dinner from someone you don’t know. But, we ... regardless of your high school preparation. You can also make life easier or

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  find 3 formulas for them and then you will get an answer, if you are ... semester's worth of film, but also access to three printers where I can print ... problem was to get the answer. What about the answer? Why does it even

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  . Every living group throws a billion events so you can get a better sense ... run my own project, and also have a pony. You can have all of that ... structures. You can work here in exchange for U.S. dollars or class credits, or

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  you to someone who can)! That's part of why I'm here! He also asked ... is clearly better, because: 1. you can eat it and it is tasty. e is ... all the freakin time. But Anna '07 was less sure. 1. you can also

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  for it. Get your physical MIT ID. You can get them at any kiosk. I don ... get one. Think of one thing you can look forward to every morning. It ... other school in Cambridge. Try every dining hall, so that you can gauge

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  understanding, for being too slow. Why can’t you get this? I wish I could say this ... that. “How can I be so stupid?” is common. “Why can’t I get this ... multiply the length times height. So you can calculate the area of that

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  wrote: "How do you guys decide if someone gets admitted? Are there a bunch ... friends on which I can write on in my essays. I would be so grateful if you ... wrote: "Any idea how I can talk with Akash?" You can find anyone here

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  we have literally the best seats that you can get without being a ... you having to get up. You forget that this is an institute of world-class research because it's also the place where you live and play and work and buy

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  and good about getting old. I hope you can have some good nights, too ... me: is this my fourth semester? can you explain that to me? my mom ... know how fast you can lose everything you counted on and have your whole

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  had those nightmares you get before a big event, where I screw up ... quizbowl is, you can probably skip this intro paragraph and go straight to ... . If you're right, you get points; if you're wrong, no one else on your

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  second major. Also, if you stay a 5th year to get your M.Eng. degree in EECS (and many EECS majors do), you can continue towards your second ... you out with all of this. kiki also wrote, "Matt! Question: I am getting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  also seem like everyone has a place. With jobs, if you get through the ... unspoken rules in a way that gets buy in from everyone?  How can any of this ... Stepping between closing elevator doors, it doesn't even occur to you

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  ground beef. I know. That's insane. You can't microwave that stuff! So ... . (Where would mankind be without microwaves?) I hope I didn't get grease on ... translates into English, but if you can speak Spanish, you should definitely

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  a particle at a given time. However, you can predict the probability ... small amount of time later, you know that it must be somewhere near where ... amount of time before! You can say nothing about the location of the

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  what you've done to get to where you are. Answer the question, and it ... incoherent pen-markings in every wild direction on their notebooks. You can ... who you are. If you're a senior right now, getting through your

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  , and if you don’t understand how to use a tool, for instance, you can be ... Summer guest post series*   Have you ever considered how everyday ... together parts, manufacturing can be disorientingly involved. Unfortunately

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  where you can swap the two roots, which is a very simple symmetry. For ... , then your math is going to be fragile and prone to collapse. You can ... different from each other as they seem. In fact, in certain situations you can

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  . This is where you try to connect with the readers and show them who you ... ability to use thesaurus.com will not get you into any college. I love ... , refined loquacity is your style of writing, you can save the fancy words for

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016