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• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  A few weekends back, I went to EnergyHack, ran a half-marathon, and ... and Friday, so I hadn’t devoted much time to either hack prep or sleep. Still, enticed by the promise of free food, I roused myself and went to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  I've recently started to use Notion on a small scale after Kathleen ... management, once you get over the small hump of activation energy to actually ... other than maybe keeping a list of to-dos in Google Keep, or my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  a not-terribly-subtle fashion, because if I decided to go to Ohio State on my full scholarship, she was planning to get a pool in the backyard. So clearly I picked MIT, and I wore an MIT t-shirt to school on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers ... . ^^;; )" Call me Matt! Thanks for coming to the session. For those of you who have driven/flown a long way to come to a meeting, I hope it was worth the long

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  Barbie six (6) times. I have also cried to Greta Gerwig’s 2023 blockbuster ... ’s throats enough for society to collectively forget about the movie after last ... Vassar with my roommate, I was appalled to hear he missed out on the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  the comment section below. To tide you over before questions come in, I ... designed to help the admissions committee get to know you as a full person ... application this way to help us deliver on our charge to enroll a vibrant

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  just on the horizon. I wanted to share what my daily life looks like, in this time when no one's life looks like it used to or like they expected it to. Here's a muddled average of all the things I've been up to these

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  navigate my to-do lists ever since middle school. My first means of task ... (rip), I'm just going to skip over them... Next, we have bullet ... going through a "jesus I do NOT have my life together and really need to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  to decide whether to stay in our current major, 21E Humanities and Engineering which allows us to combine CMS with Course 6, or to switch into ... math, we’d most likely spend close to 40 hours on 031. And spend close

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  crumble in laughter if they could read this), I have tried to condense ... never left Kenya before coming to the States. I went to both primary ... a half hour’s reach of my parents at any given time. Now I had to fly

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  are a finalist – congratulations! We’re excited to have you applying to ... often have at this stage; please read through the FAQ to check if your ... applying Early Action. You do not need to complete the Part 2 (essays

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  surrounding the conversion of senior house to graduate housing. joon included full transcripts of emails sent from the chancellor's office to ... resummarizing those. i encourage you to read their posts if you haven't already

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  deadlines that I never had time to appreciate and absorb the material. Some of ... hit me at Chipotle because I was too focused on the due date to pay attention to the ideas, or A* search algorithms from 6.01 that I was too busy

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  at 7 am... but it was a pretty boring month of my life. We tried to ... was going to be us after our exams were finished... After all, we ... forced ourselves to buckle down and do the work... When I finally walked

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  (Spring 2012): Introduction to Cosmology Splash (Fall 2012): Introduction to Radio Astronomy, Introduction to Pulsars Spark (Spring 2013): Introduction to Radio Astronomy, Introduction to Pulsars HSSP (Spring 2013

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  I didn’t attend MIT this spring. I flew to Georgia on February 28th and hiked to central Maine, traversing over 2,181 miles in four months. I finished just in time to cruise back to Boston for 4th of July

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  the invaders gestured for her to come out to the aisle. They crowded ... , they sprinted out of the room to thunderous applause. These charming men ... around delivering them, to the mortification of the recipient, and the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  Congratulations to the MIT Class of 2014! I'm a little late hopping on the congratulations bandwagon here (a vehicle that goes from 0 to 60 in 0.2 seconds, and then proceeds to receive many congratulations for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the ... nauseous. I guess a long weekend is a somewhat good time to get hit with ... tests, right? -- but it's kind of a disappointment. I'm hoping to bounce

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  Note: This is not a guide to keeping a notebook because everyone has ... ’re looking to start keeping a little notebook or everything and have no idea where to start, feel free to use this as inspiration. [caption id

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025