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• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  Links are sick, they MedLink themselves. (What do you expect me to do - go ... most people are quick to say that they're just fine. In fact, if there ... precisely what one should never do in situations like these and ignored it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  go by so quickly! Everyone who completes the class qualifies to go on ... Research Center, this seminar is shaping up to be really swell =) Not only do ... I want to do for the rest of my life. UROP- MIT Bioinstrumentation

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  there’s mail.) (Do you remember, mom?) So, thousands of people could log ... … drive quickly but cautiously under the speed limit) home to check my ... . Check out JKim’s blog for tips on what to do while waiting. Speaking from

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  More entries about buildings and food Same as it ever was. I'm still single, but at least I'm in Belgium.

  

  't have any big news. But you know what I do have? Pictures of Brussels ... your choice. As the Thalys promotional booklet puts it, you really do "travel like a lord" in first class. Wait, actually, I do have some big

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  Hi everyone. I'm so exhausted so this is going to be quick, but I ... . Please don't ask me to identify the states; I wouldn't feel right doing so ... of you have commented that "most other schools do it this way." I don

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  do sleep. Really. Just not during normal hours.) *Jack Florey is the ... types like to remain anonymous. Mostly because they're usually doing ... . =) Unfortunately, as Matt mentioned: poof. This hack disappeared rather quickly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  doing quick little sanity checks here and there. I do this best by keeping ... . Miscellaneous Things And now, just quick tidbits of advice: Do your laundry ... the most fulfilling things I do here at MIT and I really have loved

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  One It's weird how we do so much that we don't stop and think about ... communities do you most value being a part of?" But often, discussion strays ... them too hard. As long as I distract myself by doing things, I won't have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  school would incur wild errors – and I would never know what I was doing ... wandering to new things – I wanted to do something that mattered, and for me ... to do something, and the result of physics felt a little too close to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  others simply joined a theater group and learned by doing. I asked some of ... Ensemble in general, visit our website at http://web.mit.edu/ensemble/www/.

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  good idea, and that it's best to do that during the school year. "I ... up for it. I feel like I can definitely do better on the SAT were I to ... idea to not wait until the last minute to do the scheduling. You will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  In light of interviews quickly approaching, I thought I’d do a post ... -dimensional person, which is what we strive to do with all the other parts of the ... interview. Our current process does not require you to do this. After you

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  narrative. On the visual arts side, I spent a lot of time doing Blender (a 3D ... for incoming freshman that love literature or visual arts is "How do I ... worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and health, until death do us

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  helps people who build web applications talk to each other in different ... I still do Mystery Hunt, where we both spent three days last weekend ... still occasionally do musical theatre, and CJ still occasionally square

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  meaning again. It gave me confidence. I felt dangerous. I started doing Muay ... bit too, just so I could keep doing training. Now, I’ve started doing weightlifting in addition to my regular training. Doing that martial arts training

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  dedicated to doing a bunch of random projects and learning activities. The ... enjoyed it a lot and might do something like this again in the future ... everyday we do a hike, pack a picnic, swim in some cold lake at the middle of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  outlines for how to get into MIT are do well in school, be nice and pursue ... result, I burnt out pretty quickly. I was consistently overwhelmed, had to ... lot more deliberate about taking time for myself every day to do

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  [annotation note="Quick loft backstory: East Campus gives us a lot of furniture ... 't do too badly. One of the features that immediately caught my eye was ... pallet of beautiful teak or mahogany, nor do I have anywhere near the skill

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  they’d teach later that day. After all, we are MIT students and we do ... diverse and deep interests, it quickly becomes intimidating when you feel as ... . Clearly everyone else knows what they are doing and learned all of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  they center around “fitness testing”, like running the mile or doing ... lying on your back yelling “I really like this stretch!” Then we would do ... indoor kickball or doing homework. With these experiences in mind, I was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015