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• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  (s),) tell us your funniest (PG-13) MIT   relationship disaster story. I ... boyfriend. Are you a night owl or are you the early bird? What's your most productive   time of day? When do you do your best work? I’m definitely not an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  interested in the nucleus of the cell, which encloses the DNA. Your DNA is a story, uniquely yours, that you read out as you live and eventually pass on to your children. Instead of paper, it is written on a long string

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  break your life, will shape your next four years. How different can two ... on learning math on your own, or been wondering whether MIT's academic style is flexible enough to suit your diverse academic needs (spoiler: it

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  's INCREDIBLE have all your support! Voting's open until the 28th, so be sure to share this shortened link with your friends, family, etc.: http://urltea.com/1p1d. You can only vote once per computer, but you can also use your i

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  about your other options (because really, college is exciting no matter where you go) and to keep your eye on Matt's and Ben's blog for more info ... about how it's not so bad getting rejected from your first choice school

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “Hala’s Escape from Groundhog Day” season 18 episode 98

  

  bad singing one"]episode.[/annotation] If you’re unfamiliar with the ... feels like a time loop if you let it. Sure, it’s satisfying to finish your psets early or ace an exam, but it’s exhausting if that’s all you’re

  • by Hala K. '29
  • October 13, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  your footsteps match the onscreen arrow movements. usually the arrow ... played correctly you should feel like you’re moving in sync with the song ... increase your onscreen arrow speed me: but if the arrows move up the screen

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  . The same goes for much that happens in your brain. Take sleep for ... class than it is after getting a full 8 hours of sleep. Your body has ... you’re working it’s a lot more difficult to start an assignment than it

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  you're graduating on time"]course audit[/annotation]/emotional support ... whether you’re a major/minor. But the specifics and exactly when you’re ... eliminating one unknown variable from your schedule. But it sucks for people who

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  you're bad at them. And you shouldn't feel bad about being bad at things that you're doing for fun. It sounds really silly, but… it's pretty easy ... whatever thing you're good at, there's gonna be someone who's ten times

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  “It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it ... : stove cook your oatmeal, and never look back. We understand that this may

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  got deferred: i don't need more of your platitudes, your words of caring, or your good advice, your bland reassurances, your "yeah i know it sucks", because, yeah, i know, it sucks; don't need your empty sympathy

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Astrology Forecast for the Class of 2023 Some big aquarius energy is coming...

  that we value your empathetic ways, but we want to learn about you in your college essays. Feel confident in writing about yourself (maybe ... the ways in which you care for and support your community in your essays

  • by DJ Rock
  • August 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  least a year! Check your emails frequently. If you wait and hope hard ... people in your community are ok with this new addition to the family and ... . Claim the organ. It's yours now. [caption id="attachment_45484" align

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a Pirate Now just in case I don't get a real mit degree lmao

  

  Certificate. It looks like this.   I'm showing it to you because you're ... prefrosh are reading this, pls get your PE classes over with quickly so you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 3, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  manageable. A lot of healing is out of your hands. It takes time and patience and coming to terms with the fact that some things are out of your ... with yourself and the world you're entangled with, to achieve.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  your life plans or self worth on it. For another thing, whether you end ... 't entirely control, and you shouldn't base your self worth on that either. Don ... factors, but most importantly, don't let yourself get in the way of your own

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  your body is saying, “Can we do this?? No, we can’t!!” (Also quick ... you're finally going to take that shot and how magnificent it's going to ... do it” (Amelia Earhart). So if you get scared, “don't be afraid of your

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  friendly company? The math gangster you dreamed to become? Now’s your chance ... exactly where you want to live, exploring may help you meet your new best ... greatly. It is a special MIT gem. Talk to your family. Stay in touch with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  cpw at pika a continuing experiment in cooperative campus-previewing

  

  to finish off the weekend. If you're a prefrosh, come by! If you're not

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015