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• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  myself and my circle. Relatedly, I want to get better at talking to those I ... out of things to talk about and have to cast about for a forced small ... also want to seek out more opportunities in teaching and community

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  those entries. Instead, I want to focus on something much more grandiose, much more important––and much MUCH geekier. It all started, as most nerd ... weren't explicitly forbidden (and because who'd want to piss off such a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  -conditioned (!) hostel room, listening to the dude above me snore, and I thought that ... 't get to go around Europe hearing about people's awesome jobs and taking ... buy books; and if any is left over, I buy food and clothing," which I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  Studies and then went on to create Untravel Media with three other MIT grads ... companies and products that are directly relevant to the college search ... education and create digital applications that involve community. Tell us a

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  brainstormed on how to take that energy and translate it to the rest of MyMIT, as ... , allowing the admissions office to connect with users and address their ... updated weekly to keep the experience fresh and to encourage frequent visits

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  caused me to take 6.042: Math for Computer Science and 6.006: Algorithms ... idea so much sadness and theoretical math would be involved. 2. Taking 6 ... load in about a year, and communicate when I need to take time off from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  season is ending. Fencing gives a lot of structure to my day, and once I ... harder, but I’ve realized that if I’m going to put my energy and ... ’re scratching your head and wondering how exactly MIT is allowing me to take this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  stress and energy that the class was causing me was too much to handle. I ... , and I figured I might as well try too. Since I knew I'd love to work in ... that I wanted to try and do a minor in course 20. I figured I'd start

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  to sing, and, accordingly, put people into various duos and trios that ... the end of the semester, we were asked to record those pieces and edit ... anything, and I ended up being assigned to two duos—“Maria, mater gratiæ" by

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  myself without the energy to stand up anymore and fell asleep at a table in ... , and they also need weekends, if not only to catch up on sleep. No matter ... up until 4am Saturday morning on the internet talking to my friends and

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  , I never really do the Ben and Jerry's thing. I can buy that at the ... ], ice cream, and a tall glass to make a float. "Suds and a sidecar" is the ... , which are similar to floats, contain seltzer, milk, syrup, and a scoop

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  people spinning at once) per week, and I've been able to make it to a lot ... doing, and this is that post! Here's some of what I've been up to :D 1 ... . Along with my friends and my roommates, I've been on a mission to actually

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

  starting over and over again

  

  books at once, and to dive into more difficult books that take slower ... marked as to be written "much later," when I'm older and wiser and have ... blogging very much recently, and, if we're being honest, I've felt pretty

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  my best to minmax and try and get as many tasks done in once. This is ... made it super hard to study since my energy and motivation is never ... introduced her to the old YouTubers I watched like The Try Guys, Dan and Phil

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  wardrobe, lofted bed, and shelves to create a walk-in closet! My ... [by Elise Ruan '14] Going to college and moving into a dorm ... gets painted back to white eventually and the curved walls some of the

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  overcommitter and a workaholic to boot"]at once.[/annotation] I’d like to also ... terms that I don’t have the time and energy to dive fully into every ... weeks. And to be fair, it wasn't difficult, so much as it was just beyond

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW and other acronyms C.Y.G.W.T.S.F? I.F.C,I.B.Y.C!

  

  weather machine is up and running in order to give you all some of the best ... be setting foot on campus, many of you for the first time, to experience what a little bit of MIT is like. Can't sleep? Curious about what to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  Anna's asked me to write for her blog. And, since this is Anna, there is some implicit obligation to be nice, or worse yet cheerful and upbeat. As you can see, this does not come naturally. She wants me to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  she speaks with aspires to be a lawyer and almost all plan to stop ... either choose a career or a family and failing to choose will only lead to ... to cut back or stop working once they have children. This staggering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  changes, and so does the plane perpendicular to the magnetic field, which ... more classes to graduate, exactly enough to be a full-time student, and I ... extracurricular activity, and I’m hoping to spend a lot of time on it, especially

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021