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• 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 / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  was “… I don’t think I have any hobbies? Crap! I don't have any hobbies ... ; It’s September 2023. My freshman year has begun, and I don’t really ... it? Is it? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I don’t know.  I’m still

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• 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
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  I don't feel like trying for this post. lol I tried to do this style ... summers to catch up on the hobbies that I don't actually partake in at all ... provide spoiler warnings where they're necessary, don't worry. Final Fantasy

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  hours a week at an apartment with my friends. So...I don't take these ... actually don't; namely, a good job, money, expensive things, a good body, and ... appreciative of things that I don't usually think about. Gratitude Keeping track

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  the info on the slides (but not all of it?). Already, I don't know if I ... normally don't have that much to write, but I end up having just enough to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

    I don't know I'm just inclined to do creative things and I know ... between   this is so weird have I ever said that? I don't think I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  We’re So Back a collage of preseason

  

  (random pics though because we don't have the official ones back yet ... . But don't worry – I emerged from this scrimmage healthy and with all

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 2, 2024