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• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  down the hall to Carlos '09 and say, "What up? I'm sick, so excuse me ... year. The last time I felt the compulsion to sniiffle, sneeze, and cough ... , where I decide that hard-and-fast rules and statements apply to everyone

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  to and from California twice more, and to Arkansas once. (Frequent ... 've had a lot to do and thus unsurprisingly, I've kept pretty busy. Yes ... visiting with my family and trying to do as little as possible before the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  And I'm back! I'm determined to make up for not posting at all in the ... from any class, and I don't have any clever terms to describe how I ... summer room at EC, and he also needed to run to Target, Costco, and a few

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  ecstatic to get back to campus after a much needed break, to see my MIT ... be able to return no matter where my adventures take me. And because ... my motivation, talent, future goals, mental health, and decision to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There ... yourself in different worlds and try to predict the outcome based on the ... will convey my thoughts to those who end up reading this, and whether

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  then moseyed over to the Swapfest at Albany and Vassar Streets. Several ... musical prowess to a wide audience, so I donned my corridor gear and ... accompaniment to the chair-rolling and general carafe mayhem. We reached

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  the city today, and I was proud of myself to discover that I actually ... Victorian Era comedy, and it ROCKED. Anyway, I'm going to sleep, we have some museums to visit bright and early tomorrow. One bonus about the weekend? I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  shows this semester, and it's so nice to just sit down next to friends and ... each other—there's no expectation to—but you're friends, and so you ... their friends and friends' friends to dining. sometimes, you even see

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  , and several thousand people are in the process of applying to MIT. The ... able to advocate most compellingly on your behalf and have them send ... their letters must be on school letterhead and signed by them to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  legal and okay amount of classes to take, and it means that my schedule has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on ... my technicals, I'm taking 6.006, Intro to Algorithms, and 5

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  straightforward and similar to practice tests I'd taken. The bio section, however ... forces you to study and furthermore provides you with a wide range of study materials. If you're good at self-studying, however, and have access to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  successfully bribed Ben to let me stick around as a blogger this semester, and since I've already had to break out the long pants and awesome jacket, the ... Wednesday and I've had each of them once by now, so I'll give a quick rundown

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  want to improve into a few goals. Like, I haven't been eating well and ... ? Especially since I'm still in undergrad and so much of my life is ahead of me and like, if I had Greg's attitude of "it's hard for me to see how I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  , that's so hardcore, I'd never be able to figure out how to do that." And ... audacity and egotism to say that something isn't hard to learn, and that they can learn it, and that the best way to learn it is to do it without

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  imagination. There are two parts to this: (1) being technically excellent and (2 ... excellence.  You need to care deeply about getting something right and also have the work ethic and stamina to actually get there.  This often means

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  When I was younger and went to Disneyland [annotation note="Yes, weekly. My family had an annual pass since we lived close to Anaheim and it was cheap at the time so to entertain my three year old self and my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  just had was to write something along these lines and send it to the CEO ... back to your interviews and repeat, "We need to take excellent care of ... and made the connection, we decided to give your seat away... Oops, I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  Two years ago (wow time flies), I went to CPW, and I came away ... mystical fog of technological magic and innovation. I still decided to come ... intensity. I wanted to address some of the fears and concerns I struggled

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  , children once carried stealthily across the border are taking action and ... , subject to renewal every two years and only in effect for the duration of ... legislative fight for the expansion and permanent implementation of DACA. To

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• 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.

  

  around 20 minutes total a day to cook dinner and clean dishes.  That means ... 's pan (I prefer it to a regular frying pan because it's deeper and can ... food.  Rice takes longer and is harder to get right on the stovetop

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013