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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  frequency of my blogs. I do not have to force-write posts if I am in a writer’s block and I do not have to force-write posts about things I don’t care ... mostly miserable. I had already decided to apply to the Admissions Blogs at

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  it would force me to grow in ways I didn’t know how to grow alone. I ... I am going to put this together haphazardly, work on it in drips and ... . This place is hard, in all senses of the word. It cuts you to the quick

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  ’ve decided to do a post dedicated to my favorite number. Here, [latex]\tau[/latex] (the Greek letter tau, usually pronounced to rhyme with how but some people rhyme it with law) refers to the superior circle constant, [latex

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  And just like that my junior year at MIT comes to an end. Not with the usual last-minute packing or the rush over to Logan airport, but with a silent click of a submit button on my 20.330 (Fields, Forces and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  . MIT forced me to figure out, early in my undergrad career, how I should ... -bye to life at MIT and in particular, to the MIT blogs (direct quote: “Farewell, MIT blogosphere”). But I’m back!! Just in time to join other

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery Potato martinis at the courthouse

  

  courthouse. Not very impressive, is it? Every guest had to pass through a ... the pictures from the night, check out 2007 Ring Committee's website.

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  the evening. If I force myself to stay up longer than that, though, I ... over-caffeinate and force myself to stay up another night. Before coming ... the second! I feel like I’m finally starting to get math." But then, the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  got a job offer last year from Google[x] that was too good to turn down ... ’s inevitable that you’ll have a lot to catch up on. I’ll start here: Hi, I ... first to graduate — I graduated with degrees in biology and brain and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  active force in my life; an ability to initiate things waking up from a ... cynicism related to one's job; and c) reduced professional efficacy. Burn-out refers specifically to phenomena in the occupational context and should not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  . Now, I'm forcing myself to try and do more formal writing, hopping on to ... conform to this stereotype, sit down and force myself to like E&M and ... self-imposed. I've been forcing myself to feel un-MIT for some semblance

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  careful: if it feels forced it will be counterproductive. Pay attention to ... words to, reading them back, and rewriting them until they feel true. I ... ’re condensing four years into 250-word essays. To do that you have to understand

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

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  website is an attempt to talk about the thought and intent behind many ... from time to time.) I’m hoping that this blog and website can serve as a ... , and nothing else. It seems almost inevitable that this is going to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  My schedule this semester is, to put it kindly, pretty [annotation ... [/annotation] agreed that this would be hard, but I really would like to graduate ... what MIT is like; you need to do something, but it is very hard, but you

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  geographic traits to New Orleans, Venice. A quick Google news search produced a ... " O.C. on September 28th). My visit to Orlando, by the numbers ... prevention is always the best cure. "We have to learn that things have to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  After a short burst of productivity in January, I proceeded to not ... out of not wanting to, but nothing manifested even if I got a few lines ... class, in which I still struggled to write most of my essays. Regarding

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  wasn’t a couch potato by any means; I loved to go fishing with my ... lay in its ability to transport me to another world, another story, and ... down with a case of the sniffles and the best place to curl up and nap

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  undergraduates work in teams of up to 3 and create dynamic websites according to a ... want to learn how to make pretty websites :^) More blogs coming soon ... backlogged right now and I'm trying to rush through them. Here's what my house

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  you to buy things off its own website? Was there some revolutionary ... I was going to save this post for whenever my summer job had given me enough witty, engaging stories to constitute an entire entry, but in light

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  Lab website, I decided to check out their press links. I was making my ... Media Lab website, looking for cool ideas to tell you about, and happened ... technology?" Here's the story: I went to a school called High Technology High

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  posts — coming soon to an admissions website near you!! To everybody who ... gone,[/annotation] and MIT is coming back to life. Students are back on ... starting, with so many cool things to be learned; and as of today, the world

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023