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• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  to work, I quickly ordered a new adapter online the following day. It ... about three weeks – I’d plug it in, but the battery wouldn’t begin to ... , took it to another room, and then came back. I’m not sure what happened

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  you want to pursue and the two sides conflict, it can start to feel like ... barbeque pork (or at least, that's what I think it is -- browsing google images seemed to suggest that's what it's called. You know, the delicious

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  preparation. It's a (well-paying) job that uses my major, even! I really want to ... /competition, who learned how to use power tools. This place will change you, reroute your life in interesting ways, if you let it, but you have to let it. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  who take classes at Harvard use it to get experience in language classes ... significant as coming up with the idea of using a spoon to eat soup. Back in ... . Question: Can you take classes at Harvard? Supplied Answer: Oh, totally. It

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  , it will take me a while to dig through my mental archive to remember ... far, especially since it forces me to continue my reading streak that I ... stopped reading books (it's difficult to stay committed and motivated to the

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  eventful return back to the Institute. It's odd how quickly everything felt ... manageable, less overwhelming to start. Of course, you can only fool yourself ... max throttle, trying to connect the dots and synthesize as much as I can

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  , it's easier to believe that there was time in-between I spent studying ... you an entry on How To Be Cool and Study Abroad, and it just so happens ... long too tell you, and now it's too late to apply." So, for your

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  the music industry. He encouraged us to disrupt it some more - but ... I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully prepared to entrust my productivity to a flaky Wi-Fi connection. Once I got

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  hopefully I can be teaching it to students in my area soon. If there's one ... ashamed. Past the guilt, however, I can't help but feel inspired to hold on ... the world, and also because it connects the speaker to a rich history

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  finally got the budget and the design firm to do it right, and I'll be ... this site to be, how we want it to work, and what our overall mission and ... point decades: we want to build a site that a) provides useful information

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  was nothing to lose in trying. Lesson 1. Google is awesome. I searched ... racing to identify and protect what’s there before it vanishes forever ... moth database to be used by entomologists around the world. There’s a lot

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  it's easy to let our dear old friend imposter syndrome kick in ... the Boston Marathon bombings. It's also forcing me to write, an ... that the reading you're using to complete the lab is written by

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  have to take my word or Google's word for it, since I forgot to take ... moments to address the elephant on the table - or, as it were, the elephants ... foot by considering that option. Allow me to demonstrate by using this

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  decided it was time to write another blog post. What would present-day-56 ... , but also in the knowledge tested on exams.  You can't expect to skate by ... the initiative. Don't be afraid to change your mind. It's great to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  I can`t wait to start writing more about life at MIT, but since I ... water (give it a negative charge) and channel it through magnets to propel ... Italians invented book-keeping methods still in use today, 200 years ago

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  think in general it came down to (1) being hosed and (2) wanting to avoid ... was always trying to process too many bits of life at once. It's a ... the perspective and tools needed to achieve it. I want to be kind to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  're a meme!) and I can report that it is truly bizarre to watch Neil de ... one that is very near to my heart." Random astronomer: "Can you repeat ... science research, I'm always careful to attribute it to the group who worked

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  widely-used community spaces, it's much more common to have a TV in your ... equipment), and let's just say that the past four years were not kind to it ... it to run it and maintain it, but if there's anything wrong with it, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  drugs, I have to use drugs, show them that you can be smart." Lynnor ... , 2009 It’s very parents dream... for their child to graduate high school and to get accepted into a great college. Sometimes this dream can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  universe, and everything. If it were up to me, I’d sleep at least 9 hours ... Netflix to brush up on my Spanish, googled instructions for how to make a 3 ... first time I referred to MIT as “home” freshman spring. At the time, it

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016