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• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  string is everywhere, splayed out in front of me like...like...well, I was ... unwound. Yet one of the downsides is that I've now gotten myself into the ... 's very therapeutic. One ball. This is fine. Then, in some wave of magical

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

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

   scary. And maybe another reason is that trying new things out, in general, is ... accusations, and getting information, which is pretty fun. Another part of my ... like trying to remember what a Star Thru is after doing a California

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  It's CPW week!!!!!!!!! (What is CPW? It's Campus Preview Weekend, or ... 't mention) are completely legit; don't feel shamed for doing what you know is ... them! (This sentence is also true about MIT in general, but CPW is

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  tumblr, which is ramble about my thoughts and feelings until I’m done ... is a lot better now, and I went out into the city just on my own a lot ... gantry system to do that. This is a subtle difference, but a huge one. When

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  things in our school’s history is something that’s not in the motto [of ... is not just love and kindness. I mean wonder and discovery, it ... what is happening next) are more wonderful, capable, intelligent

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  blogging momentum is really hard to start up again after a certain point. I ... was only beginning to take off as common slang, and MITx, which is now ... particle" by popular press—is more generally known now in 2015. At that point

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  okay, it is really hard to actually feel okay. So I took a break. I only ... some really great techniques on how to "ground oneself," which is when ... cousin is getting married! There are positive things going on! I have

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  time-to-pee. What is time-to-pee? It's a metric I made up for gauging ... the number of classes is your time-to-pee. A time-to-pee close to 1 ... 's my excuse for being so absent. The low time-to-pee is especially

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  does matter. Ew. Everyone said: a publication is a golden ticket ... school is a job application, and in that sense is fundamentally different ... . Sophomore spring, a friend told me that his philosophy on life is that one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  people asked me to elaborate about what non-meal-plan life is like. So ... standards for "popular demand" are low), is a basic guide for those newbies ... .  Working with a dull knife is not fun (and pretty dangerous).  Groceries Most

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  . This is the hardest part and the least fun, so do it fast. Last semester ... totally, which are usually meaningless. Minimize is, has, of, under, over ... phrases make you seem less confident as a narrator, which is useful

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  without an alarm between 7:30 and 8:00. The result is regularity in my sleep ... sleep, which never used to be enough. A third, unexpected benefit is that ... made a cozy space that is also isolated: it has a window, some plushies

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  QUOTE: “I think MIT is the closest thing to Hogwarts on this planet ... looks like (don't panic - take it from a reliable source that there is a ... -that-be on MIT blogs). --- This is a simple story of three guys, how they met

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  NRAO is the National Radio Astronomy Observatory; they have a student ... this sounds, the reason I haven't posted in forever is because I have TOO ... Silence continues. I've finally picked a story, though. This is about how

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  watched, clutching a clipboard to my chest. Exam Room 1 is not a normal ... through 12, 13, even 14 years of school. What is four more at that point? Or ... . However, we are looking for a bright, young, motivated individual who is

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  room or outside to the fort that is beginning to be built. The floor has ... sorted on the tools table, but here and there is a drill, a crescent wrench, a measuring tape that someone is going to come back to. Every color of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  Plus 2011 conference at Yale University. IvyPlus is an every-couple-of ... process out there, but it is still useful to learn how other places do ... manages what is essentially a small army of a few hundred volunteers. These

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  compare it to that physics demo. The institute is the speaker, sending waves ... is tuned to the right frequency, it can make the wine glass really sing ... . There's no denying that MIT is hard, and I'd be lying if I tried to hide

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  barbeque pork (or at least, that's what I think it is -- browsing google ... deal is, anyway. Bacon's just one of those foods that you're not allowed ... 't get things done. The way it works for me is that when there are more

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  One of my favorite of MIT's 500+ student groups is called the ... (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of ... is this video: Here's the article itself:      

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009