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• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  no substitute for sleep. Caffeine is great in a pinch, but eventually ... of in awe of the fact that I'd apparently survived almost a full year ... school backgrounds, and freshman year was pretty hard for me. So the fact

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  It's April. I’ve been on campus for close to two months now. It’s halfway through the semester, and I’m in this weird mood lately where I really don’t want to do much of anything except maybe lie in bed and stare

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  In a recent concentrated effort to create a 'professional Tumblr' for ... arrived just in time for in-house rush and knew basically nothing about the ... unread in a tiny corner of the internet, so I can dust off the MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  I don't make schedules or use planners. In fact, I don't even use ... double the colors of the rainbow. In a class that I was in today, a ... events in 10 different colors) and I realized that if I cross my eyes

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  !), but RNAi, for example, was first fully characterized in C. elegans, and ... for that discovery (every once in awhile I will see Professor Horvitz at joint lab meetings!). Two Nobel Prizes in five years for a microscopic

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  school boys on campus for a UROV competition in June of 2010. At this time ... , it fairly easily accepts moisture and can keep it in for a couple days ... the water for a while. Apply leave-in and hair oil if needed

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  in a new milestone for me. It was the first day of[annotation note ... exercise I did before for the program I participated in last summer. A little over a year ago in July 2019, I wrote a blog post for my summer program

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  policies that make me both happy and sad. For every excellent teacher and ... everyday subjects in an entirely new light. The question then is, “Why didn ... far the experience has strained my brain in wonderfully new ways. Or old

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  Regular readers may recall that I've been teaching a bit in ... students pre-registered for the course, representing 9 different majors and ... with Ethan Zuckerman, the Director of the Center for Civic Media

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  This weekend, in some order, I: 1. slept for twelve hours straight in one night 2. watched experienced the Rocky Horror Picture Show, live ... weekend. Because that's how it is in my head, let's go through these in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  scans.) Also, a gift for you - a map of the MBTA, Super Mario style! In ... of which has kept me incredibly busy. To put much of this in context, I ... for my brain to remember things, as I'll tend to ramble on and on like

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  what I can get from the little taqueria right in MIT's front yard. For $4 ... -campus dining options; there's a huge cooking culture in many of the dorms, as ... confidence in that statement comes from the friendly little place under the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-Italy: Working With Ferrari The MISTI experience of Patrik Kunzler.

  

  two months working for one of the most exciting companies on the planet - Ferrari - in Maranello, a small town in the hills near Modena. Mentally ... sounds resonating through the factory grounds, trees in factories, and some

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 27, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  in the universe, death, taxes, and MIT students complaining about how much work they have to do. I guarantee you that one day will not go by in ... something therapeutic about complaining. So in keeping with MIT tradition I am

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  Sorry for the blog vacation guys. We're scrambling to get ahead in ... . Life is for living. Below you'll find an article that was published in ... competing for slots in America's elite colleges. "It's like an arms race out

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  business. now i want to apply to some top us universities for my bachelors in ... , but I was wondering. What's the policy on non-MIT-students being in ... have guests, not to exceed three nights in any given week. Overnight

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , can you tell us any methods in planning classes for a double major ... Unfortunately for me, I've been hit with what's hopefully some sort ... marathon today because I've been lying around in bed feeling pathetic and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  love, only for things to inevitably fade away in the end. However, these ... am I looking for? What/who would make me happy? What do I want in a ... :) _,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,_ So last time I poured out all that I had in my brain regarding my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  . What I didn’t realize was that, in the process, I forgot to do things for ... interested in, you can find a lot of people doing things around it. For me ... and spent time in different communities, getting the feel for different

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  people in my pod were okay with it, but for some reason or another, we didn ... around in bed for what felt like an hour trying to fall asleep. I saw ... next few days I used my laptop for my morning alarm instead of my phone

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020