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• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  Discovered About Myself Freshman Year... 1. There is no substitute for sleep ... and cram. Really. 3. Shopping is therapy. 4. Naps: they're not just for ... sometimes not. 18. Being afraid to ask for help is a very major handicap. 19

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  prime fireworks watching location. 2. The Sailing Pavilion. For members of ... in) and the "Patriotic Sing-Along." The live canons for 1812 are always ... colors over the Kendall Square area. For another account of the July 4th

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  Killian Court. (For more on graduation, check out Matt's entry as well the official commencement page.) I'm really excited for this summer though. I ... a well-cooked meal. So summer has gotten off to a good start for me

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  2 and minoring in BME. That's MIT-speak for Mechanical Engineering and ... 's Inauguration last May. In order for you guys to get to know me a little better ... , and Spiderman 2 Favorite Reality TV Show: Beauty and the Geek, for

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  mailed out on Friday!" It seems Mother Nature had other plans for me. I got ... making jokes about astrophysics," Kanamori said. For a little more than ... remember at this time of the year. No matter how things turn out for you when

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  starring Hanuman the Monkey God. The characters are united in their love for ... the time. For those of you with an Asian Students Club or a Film ... film for discussion, from both a cultural/sociological perspective and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  West. Plimoth Plantation, which is mostly closed for the season, was next ... answer my backlog of admissions-related questions. For a quick MIT fix ... pronunciation. For you admitted students, you should go check out the new admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  I'm in the Pacific Northwest, waiting for my Seattle Central Meeting ... on a non-working day. Well, for me, I decided I'd go catch the film ... High School -- and in fact, she's a friend of a friend, and once ran for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  started at MIT, I’ve had a bunch of folks ask me for application advice ... admissions or read applications for a living (though I did ask someone who does ... . You’ve probably got important reasons for wanting to transfer. My

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  isn’t. For something more fancy, color changes are cool too! Give your ... ="A girls’ math contest hosted at MIT every year"]Math Prize for Girls,[/annotation] I was entranced by the instructions for a simple origami cube laid out

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  . Felt made for me. Felt right. It made me look forward to a hot girl ... 't unsee the work behind these products. There's a bajillion people for every nibbly little step. This job made me have a deeper appreciation for not

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  to attend the 9 am option for my physics lectures – which was ... ="at least for undergrads"]every single class at MIT[/annotation] that states ... , although you sometimes forget where you locked it up and for a split second

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  importance to people, but for me, I've always used it as a way to ground myself ... of art or read a book for enjoyment in a while, but I don't know how I ... friend pauses thoughtfully for a few minutes and then begins to talk. The

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  . The runners were going about the pace I’d shoot for in a three-mile race ... for a Green Line train, and were spat out in the middle of Allston. A ... my little sister will inspire me to go to more. I’ve found outlets for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  phone. As Ajay found his profile for me, Lupe sighed. "This is what I was ... true to yourself, and rap is such an explosive medium that asks for so ... old, I realized for the first time that everybody else experienced

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  's pretty common around here for people to use our October long weekend ... visited before, for the primary reason that it was a nice-looking park that you could get to on the T, therefore saving us from having to pay for a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  my friends, they pointed out to me that even if that is true for most readers, there might still be just one person, or one in a hundred, for whom ... , and this post is for you. During the semester, mired in work and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  about myself, for a while. i felt better for days, weeks, even. but then ... behind. did you ever think about how awful it felt for them? dan: don ... for kidnapping. cj: it was ridiculous, frankly. alan: but it happened

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  embroidery thread that has sat untouched in my drawer for seven years. (The ... enough to meet the standards for a contortion class. No matter how I ... . I like to think I'm good at it for someone who doesn't know any

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  "]--[/annotation] High school was hard for me. I poured a lot of energy into things I didn ... reward for my effort? Will I ever? Because at MIT, I often put a lot of effort into my work only to receive bad grades for them. And sure, grades

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020