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• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  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 ... it takes only hours to regain your stamina after running a marathon and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  said NO to MIT: First: thank you. It's been a real pleasure getting to ... you, talking to you, your parents, and more. After a ridiculously ... Common Reply Date. The day by which you need to let your colleges know your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  school year and you're likely to have gym classes here, so why not get ... . There's also a huge indoor track field, but I couldn't get in because I ... 't have to wait for a machine. A view from outside (it's distorted

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  a lot of cooking experience. In an effort to both improve our cooking ... group together! We quickly made a Google Doc to brainstorm a list of food ... favorite food. We had a larger group of people, so we opted to get a sushi

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  - whether it's because you have a question about lecture, you're hoping to get ... . Caffeine is not a substitute for sleep. Try and get 8 hours a night - your ... school. In my humble opinion, xkcd used to be a lot funnier than it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  beginning of this initiating process there was a lot to get used to and a lot ... on a good day) and commuted into Cambridge, resulting in the traffic ... down I want to do big things, need to get better, am getting better Must

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  . It has nothing to do with geography. In such a large city, I had always ... vests, or taking cash from people who wanted to get in. It was retail at ... entrance to a marvelously shitty pool), and I did get my fair share of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Introduction To MIT World ...and my blog's first feature: Akamai, Clever and Cool!

  

  My first blog entry! Let me begin by introducing you to MIT World, a ... lectures at MIT. MIT World has been in operation since 2001 and today has a ... . With a collection of almost 400 videos, it's a little daunting to pick

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with ... because I like riding in cars. Sophomore year I got a Zipcar membership ... or so on the weekends) because I needed to drive. It's a calming

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  team, a little overwhelmed, nagging each other in the chat to get their ... decorate the living room and what kitchen utensils to buy or get rid of. In ... , but I also find myself alone in a quiet house a lot more than I used to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  a bit in laser cutting already, and the point of it is to minimize the ... your materials lie on"]Laser Bed,[/annotation] in order to minimize ... ="things you'd find in a typical machine shop"]shop tools,[/annotation] like CNC

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  ). Optional but recommended: a honing steel to maintain your knife's edge ... in, stirring for a minute or so.  Don't season or beat your eggs yet ... scrambling them in the pan.  This results in a nice fluffy egg (props to Gordon

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  more so a direction to lead the next couple steps in your life. If you ... to get in and got in or had all the passion in the world for MIT and ... push a little further in finding your next home. Just don’t be

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  /she doesn't make it. In no way am I comparing my feelings to those of a ... I posted a version of this as a comment in the last thread, but decided to blog it here as a real entry so that more folks would see it. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Update from Kentucky

  

  come up with real things to write. In the past week and a half I've gone ... day. If you try to comment, and your comment gets blocked...try removing ... during finals and is finally getting better), four finals in three days

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  get first! It was a dream come true to compete in a sport I’d been ... her family to lean on during a pretty difficult time in the pandemic ... in general. I went from barely being able to do a mile in September of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  like a tourist" guide is not to stand around like a moo cow in front of ... there. At MIT, we refer to rooms in a format like this: 10-100 (the ... students in the winter -- once you get to the Infinite in the winter, you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Students Welcome Events Your first MIT experience is closer than you think

  

  new admits in the ATL Be sure to check the listing on your My ... the world will host parties in their hometowns for students admitted to the class of 2019. If there’s an event in your area, you should

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  in MIT Open Learning for a few years (working with Ceri!) while doing ... my PhD in Course 20. Just the other week I had a lovely lunch with Ceri ... now a professor in Course 20 who I saw every week for the past 6 years

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  is to work at a design studio in the future, and I was so excited to get to experience two days-in-the-life of one, and one in Switzerland ... all, my meals. Below is a collection of my attempts to put together

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019