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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  "bad" answers. You just have to know yourself and know what you need and ... mentality with regard to work?" is much more open to different strokes for ... there wasn't much pressure from other students to spend long hours in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  Among all the classes that MIT offers, it’s almost impossible to narrow them down to just 4 at the beginning of each semester (or 5 for the ... . But actually, to our surprise, having a “plan” and a “major” and a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  still need to take 6.033 and it just so happens to have a final. Anyhoo ... created a list of topics I need to cover and material I want to revise. For ... 't understand and what I need to revise, and prioritize those topics. For me, it

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  vomiting more words after being forced to write so much.  As an ... felt like I needed to live more life and read more before I had a right ... you might not want to blog 1) Too much effort  Sure. Writing takes time

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  now? Does anyone pretend to know? One of the few things that I know ... that I am aware of. Once you know what the changes are, you can adapt to ... usually doesn’t go in much for tradition, but personally, I have to say that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  realize how much of myself I had given to him, how much he remembered, and ... clutches of the past and I'm once again eye to eye with the very thing I ... really think that's what I've needed to do this entire time. I need to come

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  . It seems odd, reading that post, to do it again, and for much the same ... our old site, here's what you basically need to know: most of the ... make it much easier to blog. We think that these improvements will help

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  much." "You have too many jobs." "Rachel, just go to sleep!" "Is it ... 've started to use this website called calorie count which does all the work for ... , about once every other month. The people surrounding me have brought up

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  final exam that I needed to pass - I entered Emergency Panic Overdrive ... that I passed, but I feel much more aware of what I can handle and how I can handle it. I wouldn't dissuade anyone who wants to skip lecture

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  officially gathers three times -- once, at the beginning, for the freshman picture; once, at the end, for graduation; and once, halfway through, for ... to the spring of 1929. C. Brigham Allen, President of the Class of 1929

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  ) kindness does facilitate the kind of collaborations, I think, that will need ... anything that felt off. Every once in a while, I would begin to feel hopeful ... put down the pen, it takes me so much more energy to pick it back up

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  person I once was and the person I want to be furiously struggling to ... and does psets and responds to people’s texts– really fucking tired ... ’s beloved sky bison, which he could have used as bait to capture Aang

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  from my 6.2050 project last semester), but I still needed to: Render ... ). Using two of these DACs, all I needed to render something on the ... out to be much harder than I had originally anticipated. When I first

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  . Once said novelty is firmly affixed to said vacuum attachment, the lid ... accessible and become quite useful when you want to avoid various above ... ... and down the stairs. Once you exit the stairwell, you pass an Athena

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  education makes you a better doctor down the road, when you need to consider ... have to experience the highest mountain range on earth at least once ... On Monday, I got to see a pacemaker insertion surgery, eat lunch in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  Wisconsin. When it comes to administrative stuff Carl's pretty much the anti ... aware of that fact. We don't need to artificially boost our GPAs to get ... have a test tomorrow?] So I, the gallant boyfriend, am stepping in to

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

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  of this year, most of those small dramas won't seem to matter much at ... the summer, I had ample opportunity to compile what may (someday) be the ... upon us, I'm proud to present you with - drum roll please - my very first

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  summer before I came to MIT, my last summer home, and the one thing I remember most is how my friends and I used to play volleyball every week. A tradition that needed no reason or explanation, it simply was. And I was both

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  grease does weird things. Anywho, on to the stuff that actually lets me ... once . . . ) 4) Response to another comment. (@_ _ _ _ _ _ _ , lorem ... that you'll be able to let off steam once you get here and won't have a

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  three at once: spend a while in Italy, bike in Spain, and go to Paris. In ... much going on with this trip so, accordingly, we needed a planning ... ="89974" /] I need to gush over Notion more. With the first tab of our planning

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023