Search

Search Results

• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  house in 2013.  $11k down gets you a $205k house.  As my house was nearing ... until your scheduled delivery date and upgrade to a 90kwh battery for $3 ... essentially being forced into upgrading to a 90D.  In the end, I upgraded, but

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  take the time to get to know them. Hop in a new acquaintance's car for an ... didn't have the energy to fall apart in front of a near ... started in the fall, it made a tremendous difference to walk into a gigantic

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: Sign up for SAT Subject Tests SAT Subject Test registration deadline is April 28.

  

  the Subject Tests be taken in June, but I think it's a pretty good idea. This way, you get to take the test while the material -- especially for your science class -- is still fresh in your mind. And this also allows

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  in four years? How about people who earned a master's unrelated to the ... , in two or three years. But to answer your question, most of my friends ... refrigerator carton to live under?" It's good that as a sophomore you're

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  'll slip in a shout-out to good old Mac High--but here, things move fast. Too ... motivation to get out of bed in the morning. Maybe then I'll make it to the ... 'd been awake and p-setting until 4 a.m. that morning, I decided not to look

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Winter is coming. actually, it's already here.

  

  to Python (6.S189), and it's actually a really fun class.  In the first ... decided immediately to live in a non-meal-plan dorm and cook all my meals ... post). Until then - adieu!  2013 is getting off to a great start.

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

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  isn't meant to be an "Oh non-MIT people just don't get it" in a snobby ... needed nothing from them at all, and I had let it get to me a bit too much ... friends who have graduated, they seemed to all mention a common theme: the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  . like, actually, this man is losing his damn mind in a way you have to see ... there is a LOT going on in the world right now -- perhaps most ... together huh cat taking sled ride: also courtesy of my housemate! oh to be a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  to resist; In the course of a few months, I experienced the rosiness of ... illumination created by a single open window in a darkened apartment complex. The ... ’t have the words to explain it, but this poem has such a power to evoke

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  ="ugh I love Rowena sm, I even went to a meetup with her in pre-covid times ... largely about self-acceptance in general, what particularly stuck out to me ... hours in a day. There’s a necessary trade off between how much you can do

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  for it to do so. In a few days, the Class of 2012 will graduate from ... path to his success: I was 28 years old. I had a career, a little fame, a ... telling me I was born to be a writer. This was absurd. Even I could see

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  and doctors are nice and have your best interest in mind. But hospitals ... being in a hospital while also managing being a student at MIT:   1 ... are stupid   3. Sleep just doesn't happen in a hospital  

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Ask Me Anything no, really

  

  this isn't a bad way to find a starting point: ask me anything in the ... really got used to it. I learned a lot in 21M.302; I looked at some sheet ... , but I'm also feeling reflective. I have a lot of wisdom to share

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • December 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  spend a lot of time with friends. It means I get to spend time with ... studies Esther Duflo conducted to get the Nobel Prize. I sometime spend a ... couple hours in the dining hall because I want a new space to work. And I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  Happy Memory, get your good spirit and energy back, take a deep breath ... , Christina '10 - an MIT alum and a fellow Camp Kesem (more on Camp Kesem in an entry coming soon!) counselor - I've had a chance to spend a little more

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  extra socks (it's just starting to get extra freezing here in New England ... email. (Also, that's why I haven't called in a while, Mom.) Actually, to ... otherwise, even the little voice in your head that's telling you to just strap

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  year, I somehow managed to come down with a strain of the flu that left ... this time to get sick not only at the beginning of the semester, but at ... you crazy? There's no good time to get sick!" But there really is. Allow

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  ice skating don't fall

  

  cj: does it wayne: nooo you're marching, like, go a little forward and ... cj: pushes feet apart wayne: no i mean you need to keep your center of ... physics when ice skating wayne: you can also bend your knees to keep your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  high school, I felt a (self-inflicted) pressure to be introverted in ... .         Was it in search of a community? Maybe, though it shames me to admit ... once a year to nothing. When I switched high schools in my junior year

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  check in late and gave me a standby ticket. I made it to the gate just ... more, went to a jazz bar, and hung out in a park..     Day 4 ... to leave Vegas early to get a head start on getting to Los Angeles

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017