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• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  when I was seized by the sudden urge to sacrifice a chunk of my dignity ... start every talk by laying out a ground rule: if someone gets lost, they ... honest, I still get terrified every single time I have to make a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  throws SpringFest, where we get big artists to perform a concert for us ... that really captured my attention as a naive 5 year old. 6th Grade to 8 ... listened to a lot during this phase: Sugar High - Approaching Nirvana

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  To set the mood: Come Home by Baynk. [caption id="attachment_38993 ... first week back. #nofilter.[/caption] Returning back to the 'Tute “After a ... electricity for my new apartment, getting my skates sharpened, getting a haircut

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  has been a bit tedious. I'm glad to get my feet wet with research, though. And in a way, it was a mixed blessing to not be hired by the EMS ... credit, so pocket change is a bit hard to come by. But otherwise my Cataldo

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  getting shit done. i love setting goals because they offer opportunities to ... few weeks ago, and dedicated a few hours to laying out everything and ... motivated my desire to be productive faded within a matter of days. i thought

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  ... ...and, after three trials by oven, gained the ability to bake a perfect ... a round of 10-hour psets, but turned out to be wildly effective during ... mystical utopia described by the admissions blogs. IAP is a truly magical

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  by the time you get to the end you’re different than you were at the ... of the Rice Chest” by Monica Youn My friend Alec attended the L.A ...  Normal People, and this short story is a predecessor to the novel, featuring

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule ... part of CPW for me was talking to other prefrosh getting to know the people that I would be going to school with for four years. I also had a

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  obsessed with Hamilton and wanted to give it a tribute.   Paris, by ... Submarine. It kind of small and a bit before their time, so they decided to ... well-established floor personality, so they decided to run with a comic

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was also a recipient of the Mac ... 'm special: I run around making plans and getting excited about a million ... everything I try to say sounds like it isn't adequate enough of a description

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  day of 5.12 (organic chemistry) our professor offered a free t-shirt to ... chemically and lyrically acceptable to say 'get your H on' or 'get your benzene ... and is now well on his way to fame and fortune. And by fame and fortune

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  adjective than a unit of measurement, but by unspoken rules we have to keep ... desensitized to event emails because we get so many every day or 2) I am ... ! She also should get credit for pushing me to ask the question in the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  physics discoveries, and I tend to get a tad sidetracked in the popular ... particular this week. I find it good to get a nice balance between fiction ... semester was kind of in a lull period in terms of work, I vowed to finish a

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  gets you into a heightened state of awareness (read Flow by Mihaly ... , I went to MIT for college. I graduated about 20 years ago as a ... would be fun to do something else. I spent a few years in the MIT Alumni

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  .005 is in 15 minutes. I go to the basement to get Raising Steam by Terry ... soup. 4:05-6:00 pm: I sit at desk, where I get paid by the hour to guard ... good at guarding packages. Kevin M. ‘18 stops by to pick up a package, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• 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 ... get ready to catch the organ! [caption id="attachment_45482" align ... hope! Maybe take a trip to California, or something. I don't know. I don

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  , complete with a "Chaplain" duck (handed out to new students by the chaplain ... wanted a small table to put in my room, but Rick decided to go all out, and convinced me to add a compartment to my table, so that you could open the top

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  I set to work." *Accompanied by a drawing of what I assume was meant ... to figure out what was wrong and get my numbers to reasonable values. A ... +/- 1 years old and decided to make a space-themed board game. Here's a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  by members of the United States Congress. I've never been to a baseball ... making. It was very wholesome, and he gave me a few tips on how to get ... her blog post, I'm also trying to make a more conscious effort to catch

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  record straight: that hasn't happened. And it wasn't a requirement to get ... for any prospective student to stand even a ghost of a chance of getting ... chances of success by adhering to a set of guidelines as a passionless means

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010