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• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  someone will feel inspired, and we can dream of what we'll be doing when the world can accommodate travel again. This post will be a list of the ... help per week, this can vary a lot. Oftentimes, for me, hosts were

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  , and I have to go shopping for microwavable popcorn. Still, I can ... can go tomorrow, I decide, as I settle on my bed to watch Bob’s Burgers ... engineer when I can be happy selling my patented Frosted Flakes Milk

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  Note: Anika drew Anika and Jebby drew Jebby. If you can't tell who ... relative offensiveness so I can know what to avoid. I swear casually around ... somewhat okay, but you can never be too careful. In public, Jebby and I both

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  -below temperatures seeps into your bones. I can still recall the breath of the cows and ... can differ so drastically between rural America and city life. I have ... life, I can’t help but long for the days back home—even the challenging

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  after coming to MIT, I was like, "Oh my god, I can't go on like this ... when my energy levels are low. Eventually, I get so exhausted that I ... anywhere. And I think there's a certain kind of satisfaction you can get from

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  that’s kind of the appeal, if I’m honest – I can have other people read ... , and can easily spend an hour watching videos about how not to ... ="ALSO can I just say how pissed I am about daylight savings time I am now 8

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  drawn match the wet gray sky, you can think about the work you have to do, and it can all feel artless. But then you might look to your left, and ... here, only short on time. Sometimes the energy of inspiration is enough

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  action applications. We will admit the best applications we can during ... . You should still put the same energy and thought you put into your MIT application into your other applications. [But MIT is my dream school, I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  love the MIT energy initiative or whatever just as much as President ... case I did something stupid and you can't see the picture, basically, it ... be attempting to run in the Boston Marathon. If you can brave the rain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  More For Deferred Students FAQ and advice.

  

  applications. We will admit the best applications we can during regular action ... action applications for other schools. You should still put the same energy ... applications. [But MIT is my dream school, I can't imagine being happy anywhere

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  applications. We will admit the best applications we can during regular action ... for other schools. You should still put the same energy and thought you ... want to reread Marilee's recent post. [But MIT is my dream school, I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  down at a conceptual level... I can do it if I switch from skate to skate ... Lammermoor. Now, I can appreciate opera and everything--Lucie's mad scene in ... Projects Laboratory, or 10.391J: Sustainable Energy? I have a scant two and a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  can also check out the Lingt website at http://lingtlanguage.com. I ... - my initial burst of energy quickly fizzled when I found myself knee ... would consume my energy, combine my interests, and grow to be something

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  Remember that epic pset I told you about? Well, a few days after that pset was due, we had our only exam in that class (Sustainable Energy). I used to be really good at taking tests. I never had any kind of test

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  heroes knowing they can never become them (although, musicians actually exist, I can confirm). It is the one form of art where I am perfectly content being nothing but a spectator. I think we can all agree when I say

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  's a weird experience. I can compartmentalize the last 14-ish months of ... hours in front of a crowd of 200 screaming people. The energy was wild and ... can't believe how assertive I was, how eager I was to experience new

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  The most exciting series of words you can ever hope to hear out of an ... exciting, because MIT students take "awesome" and "we can" to a whole new ... show in the past year can come, and cast his or her vote. There are four

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  extracurricular activity to which most can devote time – unless, that is, you ... Institute priority, just like energy (check out http://web.mit.edu/gpi/ to see ... optimism – that poverty can be defeated, and that each person can

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  , because I wanted to jump back up in the sky and say, no! I can't let go let ... was close. So it goes. We felt the insane energy of a world writhing ... lot. I hold on to the wind like I can't let go and hold and hold and

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  ? Who knows. But for now, I can afford to spend my energy on impractical ... ’t live in a vacuum, and it’s stressful to waste energy and time on ... incredibly cool physics can be. I distinctly remember telling anyone who would

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022