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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  when you have so much fun with the people in your family and feel comfortable there? The answer to that is usually no, especially when your home ... , though I could write an entire post in Japanese if I wanted to. Maybe I

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  I’m not 21, and the people I polled varied in how much they like the taste of alcohol. Is this safe??: 0/10 Probably not -- in addition to the ... with “Try not to drink the media.” This really just implies that cell

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I ... the number of classes is your time-to-pee. A time-to-pee close to 1 ... 's my excuse for being so absent. The low time-to-pee is especially

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  in the past year and a half, I’ve come to realize that it’s truly the ... first thought in my head will be the study group I had to get me through ... Hello! In just a couple of days, MIT will be hosting the Campus

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  , we headed to Quincy Market in the heart of Boston, where I had been ... literally in the perfect place to have too many things to do around off ... ’d ride down the block on my bike, wave hi to my aunt, and return back to my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  prefer to spend the duration of IAP with the MIT Alpine Ski team, living in ... Washington to get to the Tuckerman’s Bowl. The hike up is worth the ski down ... Connell Division in the Northeast, which is USCSA, and we have 10 races in the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  ) is the value of time. In high school I thought I was learning this ... think it is a lesson that many of the people who get admitted to MIT would ... myself. I try to be nice to myself. And it works, mostly; and the days are

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  wanted to take a language this fall and I really think Spanish is the way ... food in person every time we attended, but unfortunately due to the ... physics! It is by far the hardest subject for me to grasp conceptually. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  living in the same room all day is anything new to me, because during my ... don’t find as much joy in the things i used to find joy in, that talking ... , what if i adjust too much in the wrong direction? these past few weeks

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  when others are in the room. She has finally gone to sleep, and I ... made oats in the same pan, and was about to do the chicken, too, when I ... -cooked oats. It goes way faster in a pan than a pot, too. Perhaps the thing to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  feels like a leading question. CJ: The correct response is “I’ll get to ... around campus, taken from interesting angles, and the goal for each is to ... -192. Alan: So we moved in the opposite direction, to a large, nondescript

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  setting is for the summer. During my summers, I always try to set some ... extracurricular classes, for that matter - is literally the last thing you want to ... read, let alone want to read. Hanging out with friends is a much more

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  , however, have about 5-15 students in them - 15 being the very most. These ... study sessions) held by the ESG TAs, because it's much easier to freely ... learning community that offers all of the core classes in smaller classes. It

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  's gonna be happy to be here or not. Their job is in some ways to look out ... know how MIT is. You might think to yourself "oh but I know so much about ... 's perhaps most important for some future nerds here at MIT (not to be confused

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  they would not be allowed to live in Senior House in the fall, as new ... four years. In addition, the linked article pointed to “concerns of illegal drug use” in the dorm. We were given five extra days to revise our

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  . But i have decided that now my only aim is to get in MIT so i need your ... school to get admission in 1 of the best college like MIT. Do you think ... helps in the transfer admissions process. If you are intending to go for

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  only is it a pretty big line to get in your head, a lot of the times I ... Grease. Or she becomes an ogre, like in Shrek. Nina also was the one to ... programs for people to look at while they're in the MRI, and sometimes in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  , though, the real reward is supposed to be incurring a love for the subject ... friend Nish take his scribbled-in prep books and scantrons to the beach ... splinters in 10-250 next year, you know the reason. Back when I was in high

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  of awkwardness just long enough to email it to the class. (Junot is ... heavyweights--Richard Russo, Philip Roth--Díaz is a good bet to run away with the ... not to share, and hope you all don't mind. Welcome to the new bloggers

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  think that website belonged to one of most elite schools in the country ... the beginning, nowadays most everyone is in love with Facebook ... those dimensions). MIT is getting tricky like that. Much like the leaves

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008