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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  7.013, 8.02, and 5.12. (My brain is still recovering from the trauma ... , uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I ... 's because my brain can't do the think now because it thunk too hard and wants

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  . The women's track team had a baking night where we made one of our favorite treats, ice cream cone cupcakes. The chocolate one looks melted, but that's just an effect from the hardened frosting!By the end of IAP, I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  to use the word hate, but I’m going to be a rebel and use it anyway ... the mood to experiment? It’s kind of a big deal, picking a favorite, and ... the lights, raise the curtain, drum roll big. I’ve liked her ever since

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  instance, many people in Boston do like the Red Sox and say "ah" instead of ... boys do suck at dancing. In this case, however, I don't see the ... , MIT is difficult. This is partially because the courses are inherently

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  wild game or poach a cow from a nearby farm. (Actually, I think the only ... an oh-so-healthy college student meal of pizza ordered on the internet. (Seriously, Adam and I cook for ourselves all the time. But we're both busy and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  warning! suicide ment / This post originally was talking about the events of the past week. But to sum it up I thought I'd put it in short ... on the quiz -- for reference, I got a 0 on last quiz. I began to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  So classes started last week, which means IAP ended, which means the ... halfway into IAP, I wrote Sam with the intention of stealing his infinite ... , and 'cheap' prices. On the other side, I can get a Mac with it's super

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  for the last four years. I came in as a premed, somewhat intimidated by the idea of an engineering school, and unsure what I wanted to major in ... -on stuff, outside of a lab, was scary), or any math beyond the General

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Urban Studies and Planning at MIT! On the DUSP: Part 2

  

  Student Profiles from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning ... engaged in real-world issues. Since the posting of the last blog featuring ... "]DUSP[/annotation] student profiles, the department introduced Course 11-6 otherwise known as

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  The student blogger named Mimi is a much different person than I am ... start with things that have remained the same since I left MIT. My love of ... with it! The manga’s been getting good and I eagerly await Jojo day each

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  we’re halfway through the semester. november always feels like the point where the new-semester excitement wears off. there's something about novembers that make you remember, something in the sudden, bitter cold. i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  that was my biggest turn off from the moment I had originally booted it. For me, the hardest part is figuring out where to start. I started scouring sites like Reddit to try and figure out what the CS Bros recommended

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  : nope. can someone explain to me the passage of time? how to avoid ... write about how still, I think all the time about that heartbreaking ... good job of communicating) but because no one knows what the world will

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

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  . My sleep schedule has been all over the place lately after staying ... schedule at all, and then trying to fix that by listening to the advice of ... consider them in any deliberate construction of a sleep schedule. The social

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  'd fill you guys in on some of the nuts and bolts of a life in science ... looks like in the sciences, but in reality most people are sort of ... Neurobiology, one of three lab courses offered by the Brain and Cognitive

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  other schools, but here are some of the approaches I’ve developed from my ... entrepreneurship and had some vague inclinations towards consulting—I liked the idea ... humanities. The meetings were boring, I didn’t particularly click with anybody

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  hearing test because I named the pitch of the note being played instead of the ear in which it was played. I couldn’t have told you where “left” was, anyways, but it was easier to pretend I just misunderstood the

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  As we’re approaching the first of 2024, I’ve been thinking about ... year at MIT. I think fondly of that year, despite all the difficulties ... outdoorsy activities all happened at FLIPOP, the First-generation, Low

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  song: Passing Through (Can't the Future Just Wait) by Kaden Mac ... stare at the clock, and I'd count down the time left in the class period ... halfway there." And I'd repeat this throughout the class. It became almost a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What’s in an MIT Student’s Bag A sneak peek into what we carry

  

  . The bloggers are a diverse and multifaceted bunch, but there are thousands of other people at the institute who experience MIT just as deeply ... : Unfortunately, I am not immune to the allure of selection bias, so the MIT that is

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2022