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• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Overcommit Responsibly sidequesting like a pro

  

  friends I hang out with regularly, decent grades, and 8+ hours of sleep per ... experience. For example, 6-8 hours of sleep a night, 4 classes per semester (2 ... commitment clubs, 3 low commitment clubs, and get 8 hours of sleep a night

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  the answer is 5″. Sometimes “just algebra” takes me an hour. 3 ... connection to you. You MUST ASK FOR HELP from somewhere–TAs, office hours, the ... anywhere between 4-8 hours, depending on what you yourself are better

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  Thai food, watched a stupid, mindless movie: and slept for 12 hours ... , keep in mind that I was pretty worn out at this point. 12 hours of sleep ... deciding to go to sleep so we could be in lab within 3 hours to finish the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  admissions department doesn't keep track of the average number of hours that ... million hours of work in a soup kitchen ain't gonna cover four years of F ... your life. Raw numbers of hours probably don't speak as much as the hours

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  happening. My friend, Paul I. ‘24 recently told me that I don’t keep my word

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  For my last blog as an undergraduate, there would be nothing more suitable than submitting it at 11:59 pm as I do with my assignments. So here is MIT by…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  After three and a half years of being at this school, I’ve taken quite a few classes. What have I even learned from them? I’m bad at remembering numbers (sometimes…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  The MIT Monologues (MITMo) is a spinoff of the play The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, talking about the intersections of sex, gender, relationships, disability, sexuality, etc. written by people with…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  a joint post with Admissions Officer Jeremy, we stan Song: burnt espresso, by Sidney Amos Paige: Nearly three years ago, I was writing my college application essays over cups and…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  A few weeks ago, I visited a friend at Harvard. She snuck me into the observatory. There were murals on the walls in a manner that distinctly reminded me of…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  Warning: this blog features spoilers for the video game Celeste regarding the plot. I highly encourage you to play the game if you haven’t, it’s one of my favorite platformers.…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  It’s 7:59am. The natural lighting fills the room– every square inch of a pink shag rug, and every piece of laundry that I still need to do– but none of…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  ="alignnone" width="918"] after the Mitski concert with Selena '24, Laura '23, Caitlin

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  I’ve been reading a lot of slow, contemplative writing recently, which is the kind of writing that always makes me want to write my own blog post of that nature.…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  i’ve been thinking, recently: in times of need, who takes care of me? of course, growing up, the answer was my family. i woke up one morning craving the napa…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  Growing up, Thanksgiving was an extremely important holiday for my family. Every year, my mom and dad would invite all the Chinese faculty and graduate students from the local university…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  “I’m going to UROP this summer!” I told my mom over the phone. Later, I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she said, “Aren’t…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  Bowl Buzzer Pickup: For Science Bowl, we needed to lug 24 boxes of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  ! "24.00 was probably the most life-changing class I took." "CMS.614

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  classes that require you to do that (I highly recommend 24.191 in the spring

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018