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• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  makes sense. As we continued grinding through math we got to something ... building toys (for anybody who is unsure, this is a good way to start the day). After working for 3 hours I decided to study for my 18.03 test that I had

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  gets, I can always go home on breaks to an amazing meal cooked by my mom ... understand now that she raised me almost by herself. She drove me to school ... Today I wanted to thank a very special person in my life, someone who

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  essay?!? Oh man, you have to complete it so quickly. You kept putting it ... interning or working for the fam (which, by the way, adds up to 40 hours a ... choice, do I? Me: No, you don’t. Now what can I do to make you feel better

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  impossible to think, or to make any useful decisions at all. I wake up and feel ... reason to motivate me to expend a little more emotional energy to make sure ... little better, and wasn't that always the goal in the first place? To make

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  . So, I decided to make a blogpost of things-I've-had-to-explain-to ... infinite MIT mailing lists to communicate quickly with certain groups of ... for when I do make good things. Independent Living Groups In addition to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  to be. It's also a really dangerous place to be. No, no, don't freak ... . Every once in a while you walk by a door with a sign on it and you wonder "What could possible be in that room?!" Some are pretty easy to figure

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  game I've played to Mother 3 was Undertale, which itself was inspired by ... mechanic is diegetic, with pages of lore and rich worldbuilding available to ... rate than adding them to my to-play list. Oops! Trimps Trimps is an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  expectation, waiting to see and be seen by somene. This expectation weighs on ... ) converge on a key research problem to focus on and make progress on it (focus ... Isola lab I’ve been trying to investigate certain claims, for example by

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  ridiculous amounts of food for a few hours (I woke up to my friends making a ... take up a quarter of the page, and to be printed in full color. Also ... you will be in college, where you'll have the opportunity to really make

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  website is an attempt to talk about the thought and intent behind many ... from time to time.) I’m hoping that this blog and website can serve as a ... , and nothing else. It seems almost inevitable that this is going to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  the Iron Man expectation. Are you allowed to make mistakes if you’re an ... .   Faced with all these questions (amplified to the nth degree by 2020) I did ... be quick to support others however I can.  In-between all that, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  make time to cook and workout and sleep. Through it all I had many a ... that didn’t have enough substance to make it to a blog but I still don ... mashed together by some very human developers. I’d prefer to keep thinking

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  note: I found a fun little website I'd like to share with everyone. I ... branded balloons are tied to the mailbox. There is a poster of the Dome on the front door. Inside, we are welcomed into the MIT community by alums

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  official Hunt website, and they call you to check your answer. As the ... 't have right answers to those! Anyway, I'm only posting just now, because ... hunting remotely, instead of from on campus. Smaller teams can coordinate by

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  having to be taken away by the very ambulance I am working by telling her I ... return. (It would be a good way to end this story by saying "and THAT ... I didn't start out this weekend trying to write a scathing expose on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Hidden Treasures @ MIT: Pistol Think Pistols Are Cool? Wait Till You Meet Mike Conti

  

  . To which I'd reply, yes, but it's not the actual class that makes ... is quickly coming to an end and I'm supposed to finish my PE ... meet any instructor at MIT who manages to make me laugh as much as I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  By Omar Abudayyeh '12 While I’m not cool enough to enroll at MIT on ... interesting bunch by going to your favorite AIM client and joining the chatroom ... registration, of course, was to find the admissions office. I quickly scanned the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  the entire park, and my entire job was to make sure that none of them ... just sitting there, trying to ignore the incessant Beach Boys music they ... back in puzzlement and continued to stare at the water, thinking. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  the fastest way to work and what they mean by "la noche madrileña"- the ... been products of the Media Lab. I think my boss is trying to make me feel ... quickly, but I'm still not used to eating my largest meal at 2 PM! (Spanish

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  record, I outed myself for writing the 200-page Haikyuu!! fanfiction to MIT ... subtitles. I co-wrote a 200-page self-insert fanfiction about [annotation note ... "]Haikyuu!!.[/annotation] Hell, I'm listening to anime openings as I write this... Anime is such a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020