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• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  themselves wrote. And on top of all of that, I get to write. Not just little ... ) and it still doesn't feel like I quite have the grip on how to navigate this place. My semester has been a literal oscillation between weeks of a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  of summer vacation, we're still riding on a high, fueled with excitement and optimism. We're recharged to take on the semester again, excited ... what I did, but it wasn't much. I didn't get much of a head's start on

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  day of work. On top of that, there was also a 2-hour exec and a 1-hour ... , though, was another one of those IHTFP, !!! IHTFP !!!, weeks. The same day ... throwback to last year's Eastern Sectionals, as I was vying for a spot on the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  lot of us tend to let ourselves be absorbed in our own lives. keeping up with what's going on in the world becomes something extraneous and not ... more about here, one of my weekly assignments is to prepare news briefs

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  I — all of Class of 2019 — had been looking forward to this day all semester. I even downloaded a countdown tracker on my phone, reminding me every time I turned on my phone the number of days until Delivery. It

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  It's been a while since I introduced you to MIT (my way, of course).  Since then, I've been on the ETOOMUCHADVENTURE side of things - the curse ... -coordinated tournament on the ISS. The goal of this UROP?  To write a game, teach it to

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  posted. Please review your statement on MITPAY by following one of the ... education has prepared me to obviously take these challenges on, a lot of ... are available by the 10th of each month and balances are due by the

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  . With the poor animals on the brink of death, present day me doesn’t find ... wandered off into the wilderness of the supermarket, intent on seeing the ... moved before the memory making parts of my brain could actually store any

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  , on my way to work. And the most complex of these is the traffic circle at the intersection of Route 2 and Route 3, on Memorial Drive by the BU ... there on the side of the road, before the car which hit me had even come

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  ’t on libgen. Then, in a rush of power, I checked out books that had ... different academic perspectives. On my last day of Gaelic Folklore, we set up ... worthwhile.   I took The Folklore of Gaelic Ireland for the fairies and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  of the week based on how you plan to spend them. Athena and Leo have ... atrophying pinkies have recovered after a few good weeks of practice. I plan on ... dread about the passing of time and a lurking fear that I am wasting my

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  able to do physical tests on our satellite. I want another year of ... things this fall. I’ll be living on campus in Simmons with a handful of my ... , everything was new, from the campus to the classes to the experience of living

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  enjoy it, for a glimpse of a hot field as well as a bit of the research ... -year undergraduate student at MIT, a math major and one of only five current MIT ... effectively as most of her peers. A short paragraph can take Y half an hour to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  ’t randomly hit up someone on my floor to go get boba. Plus, many of my closest ... research or industry experience on top of an advanced degree if you ... of my life. First posted on Substack here.

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  lot of sense considering I’m in the middle of reading applications for ... light in my eyes had started to diminish, so she patted me on the arm and ... moment was the dark night of my soul. While working those two jobs, I

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  (2), ironically out of respect for my physical health. On the way ... . Another moral of the story: don't wear loose slippers on the stairs. A few ... Lucas came over to check on me, which was very nice, and a bunch of French

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours

  

  IAP stands for many things. For those people just chilling on campus ... kidding everyone... don't worry!) One of the best things about IAP is that you never know what you'll be doing at any given moment of the day. You

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  're enrolling this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2014!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you ... 't need to send us money to hold your place. If you're still on the fence

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  based off of the numbers you listed on your application because that ... be the end of my formal education, but here I am applying to graduate schools. It's not an easy task either. Waiting on pins and needles to hear

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  Name: Stu SchmillJob title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational CouncilHometown: Little Neck, NY (in Queens ... many things, have many talents, and are focused on what is really

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005