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• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  schedule. Remarkably I’ve started feeling rested on seven or eight hours of ... At the start of the semester a close friend of mine gave me her loft ... -averse but also terrified of heights, but it turned out to be a fantastic idea

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  (samples at the market, grabbing a couple grapes out of the bag on the train ... cook every other week. I enjoy competing in the unofficial game of try ... good for that sort of thing. I've expanded my skills (I'm faster at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  week later I spent a part of it on GTA IV. I really want to know what the ... merch design competition for the graduating Class of 2025 (that’s me ... grad student from each university. Each of the winners is going to win

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  preparation based solely on the absence of SAT/ACT scores, but will instead make ... requirement again, we drew on our experience from this past year, when most of ... note='As I wrote last year, despite the limitations of these exams, our

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  classes on zoom, returning to high-pressure academia after a year of self ... satisfied. On election night, one roommate of mine asked another, “What ... against except my future self in 9 am class -- it felt sort of disingenuous

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  places around and at mit godless and holy

  

  impacts on us, both negative and positive. I've compiled two lists of ... rely on. Beantown. Is a favorite amongst all of crabmeats the perfect ... this post is just a filler post so i meet my self-set goal of a blog

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  relationship with mit like on one of those public facebook post thingies it ... group. hell, join a dance group too! add a urop and misti on top of that ... hopes of making good impressions but i realize at this point it will all

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  Eden on the grass and she slept off some stress in the sun. This time of ...   In the midst of some version of the thesis struggle described in ... our calendars strain under the weight of obligation. Spring is short

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  welcome to MIT! I hope to see you on campus during CPW. To those of you who ... versions of that application, asked for several others' opinions on my essays ... bit of free time to write an entry I wanted to write/post this past

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  decision you’ve made/ You’ve put a stamp of approval on every part of the ... reviews, but it’s Spring Break now and time for all of us to take a ... came out, some of you were happy and would have found the above message

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  MIT. It was my very first time on campus, so I was struck by the sheer variety of activities that students do. All it takes to make a group is ... the fourth Roman Emperor to complex Fourier series. I went on tours that

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  alternate Boston, where the death of one uptight man on a rollercoaster in ... your memories before you move on to the next great adventure, full of ... away, helping out around the house. We were doing a lot of renovations in

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  i’ve learned that people here rely on each other. in a greuling ... support. people here are so painfully kind. within two months of staying here, i already feel indebted to nearly everyone on hall. when all is

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick EA Update A few words about the storm, application tracking, MyMIT, and more.

  

  ***UPDATE*** If you're taking the SAT on the makeup date of 11 ... applications all of November into December. We have not yet determined on what ... interviewer. Do not worry, we are not shutting down the application on November

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  which I ended up submitting a total of 26 regrade requests on questions ... largest was 20. Of course, 2.2 points on an exam is worth a lot more to the ... respond with a message of their own explaining their rationale. I ended up

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  Feebleness of Gravity, and the Physics 2004 Nobel Colloquium on MIT World. ... of "tickets" to be able to do the thing you want to do, you have to ... age of 53 for work he did at the age of 21, while a graduate student at

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  lived in a boarding house in downtown Lausanne. There was a lot of construction outside my window. On one of my first days in Lausanne, I visited ... Switzerland, so I'll be doing that gradually (I have lots of pictures), mixed in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  It’s not every day… lunch with a celebrity

  

  available to join her as part of the next group on Friday, November 18 at noon ... ...that you get invited to have lunch with the president of MIT. Bryan, President Hockfield periodically has lunch with a small group of 4

  • by Bryan
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  About Some Activities (ASA) More tangents than a trig test (~11 pictures)

  

  On Tuesday, a group of which I am a member had a large meeting in ... $3 Our group is the Association of Student Activities (ASA), and we ... ) organize some of the flyers we need to distribute to representatives of each

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Back From The West Coast ...with thoughts and conclusions on the recent serious posts.

  

  Hi everyone, I am back in town after a crazy day of traveling across ... a lot and discuss it with some of my superiors (for those of you just ... such as my blog is not the place to have a discussion on highly serious

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005