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• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  I'm on the train home to Philadelphia. Currently: four women run my life--SZA, Solange Knowles, Sappho, my mother. Schoolwork saturated the ... snippets from the past month. (I've kind of been following my own schedule

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  If you had a rabid enough interest in MIT and resided in the ... exaggerated position, just to start. Regarding the myth that, as soon as some ... make things explode using only sheer power of will, I need to set the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  , I mean that I'm not attending the last two classes I have today ... blog and come on - it's not like I'd be able to focus with the sky so ... through classes, time goes more and more slowly, the lecturer seems to have

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  ship it all the way across the country. But we do, so I started packing a ... half of the things on it until I get to Cambridge since most of it is ... , especially since I haven't been doing any of that (thinking, that is) for the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  made a comment, half-joking, something to the effect of "I can't wait to ... 't ambitious didn't feel true. Maybe the problem is my definition of ambition. Do ... approach to work, science, and passion. So, I've spent the summer mulling

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  it's about time I tackle some of the more difficult things for me to ... , however, a freshman only lottery over IAP. I was one of the lucky ones to get drawn for this lottery. I did not accept the position because I was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  under Microsoft called The New Technologists program. I wrote a bit about ... for working with me for the past seven weeks. I have learned so much and ... . Week 0 In the first week of the program, we were paired with another team

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  farmers' markets in the summer. It reminded me that summer was special ... about writing one or trying to contribute, to do the work to untangle my thoughts and express the frustration or the whatever else was in there. But

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  ="Burton-Conner"]BC[/annotation]this afternoon, and it truly felt like home <3 Despite the bulk of my traveling ... leaves in a few hours. Instead, though, I've spent the past few hours ... sophomore year. I'm trying to be more conscious about the time between my

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  IAP stands for Independent Activities Period. For the month of ... really explore the fields that they are interested in"]UROP,[/annotation] taking cool classes or traveling. The freedom to do whatever you want is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might ... his way out of the building?” My house is a confusing maze of stairs and winding hallways. “What if he accidentally opens the wrong door and goes

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  . Interview answers have been edited for brevity. Give me the one-sentence pitch for your channel. Sarah Chieng: My channel tries to capture the ... , hanging out on campus, talking about my MIT experience, or reacting to the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  the very easy and simple meals I put together for myself. Also, for ... eight hour eating window throughout the day (typically 1pm to 9pm). I'm also trying to be a little more conscious about the food I intake, trying

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  In the past five weeks or so, the pace of my life has dramatically slowed down. After running at 75 mph for the past year, I barely walk at 3 ... ’ve found myself with a lot of time to “stop and smell the roses.” There

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  the culture--when there’s something wrong, people are invited to fix it ... blogger--Anna H. ‘14--posted this blog post to the admitted 2018s Facebook ... ’t change--indeed, it’s possible they won’t have to so long as the way we

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  "]la-ing,[/annotation]trying to blog (...the operative word is perhaps 'trying to'), and having ... semester of working all day and into the night, and snatching thirty minutes of relaxation at the very end at the cost of thirty minutes of sleep; a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  harder. This semester the four of us were on CASE’s (Class Awareness ... and knowledge of the social class system. Some of their programs have ... And a lot more The CASE food insecurity team has Provided food care

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  't be concerned about the difficulty of majors it's all about what you ... address the topic in a proper way. First, some questions. Is Physics major ... makes up ~7% of the class each year. Is that a lot? That's hard to say

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  luckily I’d had my own disaster-semester in the spring, and we compared ... closer as friends and also relieved a lot of the shame we both felt ... things will be different in the future. What a lovely conclusion, right

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  of MIT students this fall, the characters talk about two types of depression. One is “anhedonia”, or the inability to feel anything, unable to ... feeling where a person loses the ability to even understand what happiness

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018