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• Blog / MIT Life

  day in my life except it’s a live blog

  

  few hours: read a chapter from Orbital by Samantha Harvey which is ... and practice). so far it's incredibly beautiful but harsh (it's about a crew of astronauts on the ISS). maybe i'll write a post about it in a

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!

  

  .mit.edu for a simple Google Maps version of campus. Don't be afraid to explore ... club meetings throughout CPW, or a bit of studying or problem sets to do ... lot of your questions if you do have a tough choice to make. My CPW host

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  question 11a on our application ("what do you do purely for fun?"). Try to ... Two years and 363 days ago I was on a plane home from Tenerife, two days after my eighteenth birthday and a few hours after MIT decisions

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  has no rules do i ever type like this? no but it has a name, poetry ... necessary, i end my sentences with a period. This is how I usually write on ... Kahneman and in it he talks about an intuitive, impulsive System 1 and a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  , i'm doing a lot of academic work right now, more than i've done before ... o'clock to hit before stepping into the pool area and heading to the ... underperforming. sure, half of the people in a class are below median, and i've been

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  were as a member of my living community, the Burton Third Bombers. I had ... note="we meet 3 times a week for 2 hours during the semester and like 20 hours a week during IAP to prepare for our annual show...those hours stack

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  life when you do.** All this is of course a lot easier said than done ... often very good quality. I think there are a lot of people who can do very ... . Google it. Its realness takes away a bit of its charm... :(

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  and do the things i never got a chance to do before or at MIT, but ... , however, that Zooming for n hours a day kills your will to do much aside ... motivated to do even when i haven't been able to focus on anything for half a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a ... a thinkpiece about race. This is just me working through my own feelings as an Asian American who exists right now. it’s been a long year

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  about. But instead of a police presence, and maybe a trip to MIT Mental Health, I was greeted with cheers and pom poms and a strange ghostly ... , there's a class called 2.009 that is one of the Mechanical Engineering

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  hit me that I’m now a college student. Not only do I have a bunch of ... organizing stuff. I have tried to start using a google calendar, but it’s not ... and a cupcake for doing my laundry rappelling cooking an edible meal

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  family, and we had a lovely time. I made snickerdoodle cookies and ... actually do make some regular hot dogs now, but that's only because of the ... .) After the giant food extravaganza (and after a somewhat violent game of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  of advice:  smile :) I wrote this entry a few weeks ago, but wanted to ... not to take life too seriously. As a senior, I’ve been on the prowl ... upon this one for a junior polymer engineer at a hydrocarbon recovery

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  Last week I started classes at MIT. A simple 7-part sentence that ... prepare for my 4-year journey that will probably include a lot of late nights and interesting experiences, I want to reflect a little on my first

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  " (2010): India ink on Mylar®. I will admit upfront that I am a bit, if not a byte, more of a museum nerd than your typical MIT student, which ... Not Be Such a Bad Idea if I Never Went Home, is really one of the best

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  variety of activities that students do. All it takes to make a group is ... Dorms. Multistep retrosynthesis. A cappella music. Hacks. Everything ... education to a drink from a firehose? There is so much more than water at MIT

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  What does a number do when it wants to be a picture? I acted in my ... entire prod staff on my side. How do you make a picture in your mind come ... does a number do when it wants to be a picture?" - Dan Dietz

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  a welcomed influx of Drain-O. Saturday came in sun-drenched breezes ... afternoon, which meant that I was starting to feel a strong natural urge to do ... . Faced with a barrage of Conceptual Quantitative Questions as I neared the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  just ignore that and do the work,” he said. And he was correct. When a ... him. This friend is single and would like to have a girlfriend, and ... surprised, simply because it's not how I operate. I'll confess that I spend a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  at East Campus working on a 5.111 (chemistry) pset with a friend. I actually enjoyed doing it, despite the very obvious fact that I spent all night doing it because it's due tomorrow. Although I have to admit I think

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008