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• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  ??? And NOT ENOUGH SPACE??? IT'S OVERWHELMING!!! Unfortunately, I don't ... in the eye and basically tell them "I don't have enough time for you ... today. I should do something. I don't wanna do something. But I should

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  promise you, I'm actually a black female immigrant scientist. Please don't ... Adulthood. Don't quote me on that, as I'm only halfway through the decade. I ... , you too can fall prey to the belief that they don't! About twelve

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  , I don’t really understand your project. I tried to sum it up again ... imagine the horror when I told my parents I don’t want to be an architect ... proud of. When you discover a problem, don't ignore it. It will still be

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  that I couldn’t even make out what they were (don't worry, the food ... not sorry to leave the Masochistic Institute of Technology. Don't worry ... guys you jam with when you don’t feel like doing work, and you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  failed for 21 times (...I succeeded on the 22nd try) I guess I don't have ... life has been...so don't expect too many MIT-related things in here. =p ... gyroscopes work (which I still don't - actually, but shhh, no one says you can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  being so fast), but I've been up to a lot. More on that later, don't you ... will have to do instead. (Apologies to those who don't like the song; they've got lots of other great stuff, if you don't like this one, though

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  and hours to complete them? Ay, there's the rub - if you don't do the ... to do well in them, but if you don't do the psets, then you can't do ... 'll have to turn in several blank answers because you don't have time to get

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  I don't actually care whether the Red Sox win or lose. (Uh oh. Am I ... than done, but try to remain a semi-reasonable human being. Don't hole ... classes you're taking - don't surrender to senioritis and stop doing

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  , people...apparently don't have big enough desks, so they spread their study ... chemistry) study material, I believe. (I'm not a chem person, don't ask me.) And we clearly don't have enough counter space... But who wants to talk

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  't award second bachelor's degrees. As long as you don't already have an ... ! If you don't mind me asking, how were your SAT scores and how many ... lives on 3rd East in Next House with me. Sorry to say I don't know Prannay

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  with classes every day at 3, which is great because I don't learn well in ... don't want to spend thousands of dollars on a prep course, you can ... issue, and you don't want to spend lots of money on prep books either, you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  't patently obvious by now, that you don't have to know much about computers to ... Sapolsky's books A Primate's Memoir, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers and ... . This is bone-crunchingly boring work. This is something I don't think

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  macaques were closely related to others. I don't think I got paid much ... never even interviewed with Yasunori -- I don't think he even remembers ... - August 2006 I'm sure I don't need to say anything about this job (duh), but

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  I really don't like about CPW is that I suddenly have to convert to ... and I don't like it. (You try saying "biology and brain and cognitive ... zillion times in other biology classes. I just don't know what else there is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  give them a list of cool things you did- and by that I don't mean a ... that concept and apply it to MIT! (But don't go nuts about it- your teachers can handle the job. Don't give them a huge list of everything you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  to everyone before you go 3) Once you leave, don't look back 4) Don't throw diesel fuel on a fire 5) Don't invite someone to something, even if you don't think they'll go, unless you want them to come As for the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  study engineering?" You don't need to have any computer programming ... information we need all on the same sheet. So, don't worry about it. You all ... don't worry about the two different testing dates, or the tests that you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  don’t think so, though this isn’t the point; I wrote it when I was 17. I ... . And would you say that was “unnecessary?” Listen, I don’t love your tone ... don’t have shit figured out, but Does it feel unnecessary for you now

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  keeping me away from the blogs. The thing is, I don't know quite how to phrase it, especially to a public audience, most of whom I probably don’t ... the features. Now that I think about it, I don’t see disposable

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  screen. You don’t hear the echoing squeaks of the floor when another tired student scurries past; you don’t smell the coffee wafting from a mug on an adjacent table. You don’t even feel the skin between your fingers starting to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021