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• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  convince ourselves that not making the effort to socialize is our best bet ... friends is not only because we put in effort, but also because we want to ... . That part really is kind of random and up to God, the universe, whomever

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  "[In many ways, picking a college is a lot like marriage: the courtship, the ceremony, the cost. So it's not surprising many players compare ... think is) the biggest decisions in your life. Perhaps you are choosing

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2029 are now available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... the MIT Class of 2029, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  conversations on the open threads for admitted, deferred, and not ... MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2024 are now ... log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  conversations on the open threads for admitted, deferred, and not ... MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2023 are now ... in using the same username and password that you use to log in to your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Over Spring Break A flattering video of MIT Women's Tennis derping around California

  

  share beds, it was not so much cramped but cozy. The first few days our ... For spring break, the women's tennis team travelled to Southern California for 7 days, playing 4 matches and spending the rest of the time

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  ) This is my first semester with no finals, so Dead Week marks the start of ... failed the 18.03 ASE, I would not have been able to change majors, so I ... ? Summarize some of the material you are studying in a way that is

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  , the version of the MIT ring that's available for graduate students, is a ... Rat, how could you not? Every engraving and embossed feature is ... think of it as a wearable yearbook. The 2014 ring is much the same way

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  , then, one of my favorite weekends of the year is Splash weekend, when I ... the morning and headed over to check-in. This is a three-hour shift of ... Impostor Syndrome, the worry and doubt and feeling that I’m not good enough

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  be on your health, and the health of your community, and not worrying ... MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests as part of the admissions process. You can read about our revised

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  dormitories. We're there to offer advice, make sure there is soda in the pop machine and occasionally figure out why the toilet is overflowing. I've done ... downtime enjoying a snack (raw cookie dough from the freezer is my favorite

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  know the answer to that question. All I know is that I'm here now, and ... challenges by yourself, in your own way. But the good news is that you ... little. Breathe. I'll admit it: the college application process is a lot to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  felt. To me a foreign language was and is more than just the translation of individual words; it is the physical embodiment of an entire culture ... -5 hours a day. Not because I wanted a grade in the class, but because every

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  warning: the post below is probably the cheesiest thing i have ever ... am not cool. Go to class; it is not cool to look like you're not trying ... discipline when it comes to sleep. But the story is always, "I didn't go to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  my ankle while hiking and fractured it. It is not the greatest. But I ... Sandler is most definitely not my favorite actor ever Cabin in the Woods ... heart's content (Ray and I are not big surfers). The weekends, though

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  , working mostly on the 8am-12pm and 12pm-5pm shifts. Being an EMT is one of ... is one glorious thing about IAP that is often overlooked amidst all the ... . I hear starving is really bad for you. As I perused the store, I noted

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  've come to the following conclusion: running the Boston Marathon bandit is a ... --there's a nice one in Cape Cod. Take the Bolt Bus down to New York (not the ... qualifying time. You're still not quite really running the Boston Marathon, but

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  jokes notwithstanding, is really not that old. You will be in the prime of ... me and adapted to it. Liking said reality is not required. In grad ... communication of financial information.”  One of these standards is called the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  Building, because it is full of grad students and grad students do not sleep ... What do MIT students do on a Saturday night? Well, if it's the ... the highest building in Cambridge! Or, more accurately, they do that at

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  . The main problem, I think, is that Zoom fatigue is real. Staring at a ... notifications on, is exhausting. If I’m already online all the time, going to ... the end of all that is to go on yet another Zoom call, or even just

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020