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• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  , and I feel like I have more independence to pursue things I enjoy on my ... people tend to overestimate their unhappiness about not getting a job, as ... 's a limit to which your life satisfaction increases with your income

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  because you refuse to get a scooter. Your entire schedule revolves around ... whopping 168 acres – which is 1.5x bigger than Vatican City! To get from one ... had to come up with some ways of getting around campus a bit faster

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  wrong in a house! Studying: I need to get credit for 18.03, Differential ... in Women's Independent Living Group (WILG).  These past few days, the ... broken out terribly due to an unfortunate combination of sunscreen and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  Wow. So this is what official blagging* is like. It’s nice to meet ... admissions blogs myself, and so now I feel like I’m obligated to post something ... everyone was posting about first coming/coming back to college, and all the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  site of random tomfoolery. For example, MITHenge, which, according to ... is also the site of other activities, which, in that MIT way, manage to ... as "MIThenge", a reference to Stonehenge's alignment with the sun

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  Press about our Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones. According to Google ... new book: "Less Stress, More Success: A New Approach to Guiding Your ... about overscheduling; they just wanted to know how to get into MIT. Now

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  "mcgregor" get it tell your local prefrosh to go tomorrow/today (8/26) at 9 pm ... Republic (Plato). Third person to reply gets them for $0. With love and ... students. You'll be happy to hear that we did incorporate many of your

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 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 free and open on-demand video streaming web site that features public ... . With a collection of almost 400 videos, it's a little daunting to pick

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  my first task was to get ice cream with my advisor, her colleagues, and ... questions about grad school, I wolfed down ice cream, struggling to get as ... checking Google Maps. After nearly a year here, I’m starting to know

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  The Classes I’m Taking This Semester [in order from least-to-most edible] 🪀🚑🔥📚♟️

  

  . If I get one [1] ONE comment asking me to, I will.] These are the ... using the most dangerous writing app, where you are forced to write in five-minute chunks, and if you ever stop, EVERYTHING gets DELETED. :o But

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  related to photography. I’ve taken plenty of HASS classes in my day, but this is the first that doesn’t seem like work. That’s not to say that I didn’t enjoy my other classes (I’ve been known to offer to take on other

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  !) and busting my butt off at my JOB. I chose to get an internship in ... I went to 9-to-5 life in downtown Manhattan. Some of you might have ... world. One other thing many people do during IAP is get an internship. So

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  't listen to all of them them or censor anything, so y'know, use your judgment ... . You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  track to have a gorgeous Google Glass app. :) And for ... college. Not even for a bit! (I'm starting to think I'm always more homesick ... opportunities MIT churns out every year to send my friends everywhere from DC

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  who didn't get into MIT but went on to thrive elsewhere (like this, and ... who are seeking to make a decision about your MIT future by May 1, and ... the only uc she gets into is davis — “i don’t want to go to a fucking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  to my dad so I could get a second opinion on what I’d written. The ... wouldn’t be able to get in, just because you are never fully prepared to ... . Three days of back to back college tours is just too much. Your kids will

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  Stoots. Be sure to hire him for your next major concert. I try not to endorse ... 't really get it either. After the presentation we all got to go right over ... terrible, torrential thundersnowstorm to get home (if German can merge words

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  in baker. i take the elevator down to the dining hall to get meals, and then i take it back up and eat in my room. i walk to the z center to get tested every once in a while; it takes around twenty minutes to walk, get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  (Wednesday, 12/6), but in the last fiveish days leading up to Wednesday it switched to just cloudy. I gave up hope. I resigned myself to an incredibly banal Wednesday—except extra sad because I’d have to wake up at 8:00 am

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a penny for your thoughts? and what it is, and could be, worth

  

  sodainly say to them ‘a penny for your thought.’" Sir More was an English ... offering one to someone meant that you cared about what you were getting back ... your own up to someone else, was a meaningful (if cheap) activity. This

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • February 20, 2026