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• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  known before. I move to attack a Simmons resident. As he swings his pool ... try to stand, but the second I bend my left leg a horrible pain shoots ... new MIT frosh go to a bunch of events and check out all the different

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  , and at a quarter to five, the mailman came to post the letters. Sadly, I ... reading and for being a great audience. This isn't to say that this is ... blog. I hope you have a great weekend. Best wishes to all of you.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  . WHY? Because the soundtrack to Hack Punt Tool, a musical about MIT students by MIT students that was a huge success last winter, has finally ... they wanted to write a musical, so they did. It was named for three words

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  In less than a week I'll be hopping on my flight back to Boston, and ... [annotation note="is this okay to say in a blog? let's hope so ... motivated by the promise of a three-day weekend. [caption id

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  webnovel by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (墨香铜臭). I often find it difficult to provide a ... measures to make that happen. Vanya's a close second. She really deserves so ... Eizouken makes me feel like I'm wrapped up in a cozy blanket by the fireplace

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  question, which was forwarded on to me by the awesome Nick '09: Alex isn ... from the MIT homepage yesterday, the final day of voting. According to the site, the online voters will "make the final choice, which will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  the Jupiter String Quartet concert. (It's a good way to make money AND ... go back to sleep. It had been a late night of work for both of us the ... Office)  where you can apply to be interviewed for a lot of different

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  .) So last week, I decided to make up for it by...doing a 9.00 essay? How ... like such a big deal, but it's actually harder to make it through ... 've got a 5.12 p-set, an 8.02 p-set, and a 9.00 test - all to be taken or to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  sense for the technique I'm using to make an 8-bit mural. It involves a ... to be evil. Why? Here's what it looks like. Problem 1/ a -- s Problem ... 're reading it correctly, A through S. 19 parts! In addition to the other parts

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  intend to spend on the beach), followed by two days to shop and pack, a ... perspective in life (i.e. a lot) you can make it through the day and in fact an ... different ways. It's kind of a fun place, unless you happen to be under the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  to pick up a travel book. (Yes, I waited until the last minute to figure what I was going to do while I was there). Fodors is great by the ... . Actually, a total of 18 of me and my friends ended up making the sojourn

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  certainty, I had to make a few sacrifices. Specifically, I was allowed into a ... mindset. I thought a lot about what I could have done to make things better, to make studying for biology a lot more streamlined, to fit my p

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  . Honestly, all it takes to make me happy is a little sunlight and a little ... that make the grind of MIT bearable, and make me glad to be on campus ... I love water, and I love living close to a river - I think it's a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Waiting (is the hardest part)

  

  that by leaving only a very small number of spaces for regular action ... Geisha" last night, with a talk beforehand by author Arthur Golden!) ... defer letter and the deny letter each come in a standard #10 window

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am dumb

  

  "department requires this information". A Few Answers to Questions: 1. There ... to bottom. Now, if everybody did that every once in a while, wouldn ... people don't agree with me (and it's easier to clean a suite kitchen shared

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  idiot. She makes up some pretty awesome words too. I look forward to a ... Let me begin by saying that thanks to CPW, the rest of high school is ... a dorm has a ball pit, I need to stay in it, because it is

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  path to his success: I was 28 years old. I had a career, a little fame, a ... telling me I was born to be a writer. This was absurd. Even I could see ... by a professor of art history at Princeton? Of having been let into

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• FAQ / First-year application

  What should I do if I’m deferred?

  your application was already strong enough to make you a contender in the ... to "improve" your application, or redo/edit/modify your application. The only thing you need to do is submit the February Updates & Notes
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.” I’m not going to make ... , em-dashes and alliteration. Why? There is a good argument to be made ... support for future missions. The goal of my project was to design a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  motor-making class), a 3D printer (sent by MIT!), and a cardboard globe ... that my friends and I are in a sitcom. We refer to every school term as ... trying to make it through the hell that is an online semester. So far, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020