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• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  feeling of being trapped in the Bubble is tangible in my failure to take ... ’s going on in the world i am. i used to be so caught up with everything, but ... r e~ made me realize how accustomed to MIT campus i’d become in the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  , these 1.5 hour exams are pretty much 100% of your grade in the class ... 've adjusted to learning in the MIT system, but I do feel like there are more ... complain about the lack of time to study for exams, the truth is... I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  needed to be. I've always very much been a more-about-the-journey-than-the ... roses that have decided to latch their roots onto me, but in the process ... . There is no pressure. I am simply in transit, going to and from but not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  behavior in a given setting is to experience that setting i liked that ... experiences with doritos and other snacks it’s much harder to come up with the ... to whatever real life throws at me, in the way that exceptional

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

   about what it is like to not be well at the end of a semester, and it is not fun ... to the committee: "I have spent so much of my time at MIT writing, I ... ago to the advisor for the writing department, and she got back to me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  student here, learning how to think is still the most important thing anyone ... ridiculous-looking formula sheets to show you. In the book The Idea Factory by ... around the time you were born) is told that the most important thing he

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  asking me to — it just happened. In some ways, this is the opposite of ... , Kealoha’s delivery brings so much to this — video of the excerpt is embedded ... this. i've always tried to strive for happiness in the present, and it

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  something like, "On behalf of the Admissions Committee, it is my pleasure to ... accepted to MIT, I still clearly remember the day I received my decision. The morning of Sunday, March 18th, I was sitting at the computer in our living

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  things are seen only in the way you intended, there is nothing to fear ... hadestown is a tragedy. the narrator, hermes, tells you this in the ... to Hell, Hadestown in a song that introduces the cast of characters

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  latter, in the sense that we compete to admit and enroll similar, though ... similar rise in applications. This was a cause of concern to all of the ... sure that the admissions process works well, which is to say fairly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Song Remains The Same But sometimes my blog entry is a little different.

  

  I am very curious." Kallie: "Ok, since you seem to be rather in-the ... ready for a while. The best I can do is to direct you to this clip from a ... think this is pretty typical quality for MIT choral ensembles. Most of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  do for the project. But I need to accept that it would take too much more time in my life than I’m willing to devote to it. The key here is to ... struggle with. What blew my mind in Rowena’s video, though, is the idea that

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  screen, since they tend to crack. sitting in the very center of an exam ... 't the smartest idea; in fact, the professor might even ask you to get up ... , preparing for Sunday’s competition. The pressure is on to get MIT’s car ready

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  is to work at a design studio in the future, and I was so excited to ... since I started college and tried my best to make the most of my time off ... admission to the MFA and ICA, among other museums in the Boston area, and it

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  . Aomawa is also a contributor to the new book She's Such a Geek: Women Write ... Beauty and the Geek. The concept of the show is to take eight geeky guys ... former MIT students on the tube. This month, PBS is having competition

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)

  

  , "Academics" it is. The MIT Outreach Initiative "seeks to disseminate ... goal, isn't it? The Outreach Initiative with which I am most familiar is ... the bike while motivating them to push themselves harder. "In one game

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  and it’s something i struggle to understand. the claim is something like ... other or coexist in the manner the article describes. to be honest, the ... foreign to me. the problem is not that i am unwilling to ask other people

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  much a lot of the stuff written in the MIT forum (and elsewhere, for that matter) makes me want to throw up or strangle the writers, it doesn't do ... and interesting. Mostly I've been writing code in MATLAB and C. The code

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  live, REX is a great opportunity to find out about the different parts of ... , REX is the perfect time to explore MIT's dorms and pick the place whose culture and residents feel like the best fit for you. Most of all, REX is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  yourself in different worlds and try to predict the outcome based on the ... ’ve started to realize that I tend to trap myself in this view of the world ... instructions that I would need to follow in order to be sure I follow the best

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025