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• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  For the past year and a half I lived in Cambridge, worked full-time, and did all sorts of adult things.⁠01 including but not limited to: having hour long phone calls…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  Today is August 31st, the final day of REX, but I’m writing this from the comforts of home in Seattle, more than three thousand miles away from MIT. I’m slowly…

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  Today is the first day of classes, and, as new MIT students are introduced to the fun of the firehose, we also wanted to introduce our new bloggers to you!…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  visual depictions of my summer i've been a busy, busy bee.

  

  Cinnamon rolls I made with Elisabeth ’22 shortly after I moved into WILG (Womens’ Independent Living Group) at the end of last semester. They turned out really well, though we…

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  We’re big fans of Spotify here on the blogs and have been for awhile. You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu’s post about his life in the cloud; back…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  The Tech has an article out this morning about a new HASS concentration in Computing and Society that I am stupidly geeked about and want to share with you. First things first:…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  career fair haikus this post contains your Daily Value of sodium

  

  🎶Will the stars align? 🎶 🎶Will my interviews go fine?🎶 🎶Will the job be mine?🎶   Please accept me please I want a job so badly Please 🙏please 🙏please 🙏please…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 28, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  Hi!  We are the REX chairs of Mccormick (Adina G. ‘22, Camellia H. ‘22, Emma L. ‘22, Faduma K. ‘22).  While our names only represent the first 6 letters of…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Class of 2023 is arriving on campus for their orientation, which happens contemporaneous with Residential Exploration (REX), which is part…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Astrology Forecast for the Class of 2023 Some big aquarius energy is coming...

  It’s an incredibly exciting time of year, as the Class of 2023 is arriving to campus to begin their orientation to MIT. I’m excited to connect with our newly enrolled…

  • by DJ Rock
  • August 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  i’m writing this post while sitting at an LAX waiting to board my flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can’t quite…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  The word advice comes from the Old French avis comes from the Latin ad and visum⁠30 and if you look to your left, you will see a biochemist attempting to…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  All dates are auspicious, but some more than others. For me, August 10th will always hold a special significance⁠35 Beyond the matter in Lisbon, I mean. as the day I…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  8:00 AM wake up. check my clock and go back to sleep. 9:00 AM actually wake up. i take a shower, stop being naked, and am ready to head out…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who else is watching infinity train?!?! *a fangirling hub that we will update every day this week*

  

  Nov 2, 2016 Three years ago, this was released! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY6kfVWv01k We LOVED this short the first time we watched it!!! The concept of the show is oozing creativity! Tulip, the…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  Heads up: I’m not sure if any of this makes actual sense. This is really just me trying to work through my t h o u g h t s…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  Step 1: Wait and Hope You have to wait. Not a week. Not a month. At least a year! Check your emails frequently. If you wait and hope hard enough,…

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  my summer is coming to an end. i think shuli mentioned this in a previous blog post: the days go by slowly but the weeks speed by. here are some…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July illustrated

  

  Inspired by Ceri’s Dear July  Dear July,   You are special this time. Not that you weren’t before, but it’s just that this time you are particularly special.  Because you are…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 31, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2019 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, the Class of 2023 has been spending their summer deciding where to live with the assistance of the MIT guide to…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2019