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• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  On Friday evening, I made the disturbing discovery that my computer ... about three weeks – I’d plug it in, but the battery wouldn’t begin to charge until I gave the plug a little jiggle. The odd thing was that I was

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breaths Perhaps wisdom, perhaps not. See for yourself.

  

  I've been reading a lot of the comments about the applications that are due on Jan. 1. And while what I'll say now is just my opinion ... , etc. I agree that it is easier said than done, but I'm in the same boat

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Please Read This Regarding the mail screw up.

  

  I know that you all hate us right now and I don't blame you. I would too. In fact I do. I know this doesn't make it any better, but we really didn't know. I don't hide things from you; I never have and I never will

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Making A Splash on July 4: The Celebration in Photos July 4th - A Photo Essay

  

  all about the BBQ and fun with friends. I took in the action from Baker where I lived my freshman year. Here are a few pictures and videos from ... + Slip and Slide I told you I was accident-prone. A little wet

  • by Bryan
  • July 6, 2005
• 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 now. For better or for worse, everything about me has changed. I want to start with things that have remained the same since I left MIT. My love of

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

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  Breathe in. Keep breathing. The prefrosh I was hosting, or my ... couch you'll sleep in, I'm gonna head to class now. The first class I had ... step out of their slumber and into the courtyard. I put a patty on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost a year since I applied to MIT! For many of you applying EA, the deadline is fast approaching! I ... next year, hopefully teach you what not to do. I started early. Like

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  This New Year, I want to try a resolution that would mandate how I ... fail, I will revive them from where I left off INSTANTLY in some way. No starting over. No delays to tomorrow, next week, or next month. No more "I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  My brain's been on overdrive from the moment I stepped foot onto MIT ... summer, I'm usually a ball of anxious energy just waiting to be released ... world into one big energetic THWAP. And so I make myself busy over the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  i really loved joon's everyday post, so here is my own unnecessarily detailed day! watch as i stumble my way through like sixteen hours without ... scale: the lines are 30m, or 100ft. 6.02 am: i wake up abruptly from a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  My Mets are seriously kicking some you-know-what lately. I love it ... ? also, just out of curiosity, and its totally okay i you don't feel ... it. I guess now is as good a time as any to ponder the intricacies of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  Six minutes ago I was supposed to be out on my flight from Los ... than last Sunday. I am, unfortunately, not on that flight because it was ... past year. Every time I've been at an airport, it was either to say hello

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  elementary school as "filled with friends." i think that's how my life can be ... years at mit, i can say i feel more settled into myself than ever before. i've come to peace with a lot of the things that kept me up late at

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  It’s cold down here, and dark, so I’ll keep this one brief. I'm in ... when others are in the room. She has finally gone to sleep, and I’m trying to be polite, hence being curled on the sofa outside of our room. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  One. It was a lie that made me choose MIT. I was told, and I believed ... over somewhere else. When people assured me that I wouldn't be spending all my time working on classes, I believed it. Two. On registration day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  (Read part 1!) I will start with a disclaimer--there are definitely things that can and will change at MIT. In fact, that’s what I love about ... , healthy environment while still maintaining our academic rigor. One thing I

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

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  The semester is over and I didn't go home for winter break because I ... to the back burner so I could survive my classes (four technicals, all on grades...the most I've ever taken), so I opted to stay on campus

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  I'm taking [annotation note="Introduction to Education"]CMS.586 ... physics class every Tuesday and an algebra class every Wednesday. i. on going (back) to public school I went to an evangelical Christian school

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  A couple updates: I quit two of my jobs I'm taking 4 classes and ... -technical classes are still a lot of work I am good, I am okay But I am very tired I sprained my ankle I'm starting my third week of school next week

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  I often get asked how I organize my life, my time, and whatnot and while I'm not the most organized person in the world, I thought it'd be nice to highlight how I organize my day to day tasks and how I track

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021