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• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  fiction about the way that reality is going.” blast in your ears.  I go to ... gym in the morning, and affectionately listen to Alison bemoan bicep ... precious, time is scarce. There’s a constant ticking in the back of my head

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  become genuine. It is wayyyy to early in the morning to keep up a “oh hi ... potential to take on each of these personalities to get the girl (in this case the girl here in this “quickly becoming complicated” metaphor is

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  treasury of comedic novelty photoshoot experience to pieing the bloggers in ... the tense scene. In slow motion, Tim waddles over to a table full of ... admissions blogs is to humanize MIT. I hope that this video, in turn, humanizes

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  intellectual reader to draw the conclusion themselves." 3. Put song lyrics in the ... in the first place," make sure to repeat that argument multiple times ... only chance to apply the things you've learned in math class. Pick

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  what I expected, but it's so hard to tell how much of that is due to this ... the strength to fill it, so all I can do is try to block it out. Like the world that never came to be is collapsing, an invisible weight on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  not just because in the future you may be able to help them. There is ... devoted to this dome. Oh, this is a lead-in to the hacking speech. "Harmless ... Hey hey! Welcome to the liveblog! At this very moment I'm sitting in

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  his hard drives was broken. So Patrick the Irish decided to stick it in ... , I'm sneaky alright). The point that I'm trying to make instead is that ... language teacher was probably the best thing that happened to me in the way

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  in your near-adult life. Because there is just so much to do all the ... someone you can wave at in the hallways or DM for notes is a good way to ... doable? Is this too much? Do you have time to eat, time to go to the gym

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  fellowship. In particular, we have the 6-A program, which allows you to intern ... stipend (which, in the 2023-2024 school year, is about $4000/month before ... financially feasible for students to pursue the degree. Social life is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  to force myself to go do something else, the usual result is that I both DON'T do something else, and feel guilty. Which is pretty much the ... to say that it's the "top sliver" because there is no rational way to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  campus is to the left of the frame; you can see the Green Building on the ... same lab I’ve been in for the past year. It’s extremely unlikely to ... into our backs at the end of every term and I didn't want to go out in a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  this is, in fact, not the case. I still have so much to learn about ... life. And she cut me off in the middle to say "Cam, those are things ... I try to think of how I'm feeling, all I get is static in response

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  can’t make the time to. Once an assignment is turned in, I can’t reflect ... institute is always churning.  tick There's a constant sound in the back of my ... get in? tick I’m just going to shut up, put my nose to the grindstone

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  in Boston, conveniently 4 stops down on the red line from MIT, that ... plumbing thing, and the crowd went WILD. Well, not everyone in the crowd, because some commuters had trains to catch, but most of us. 2. On

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i think i’m not (rush, part 2) and what it would take for me to be it

  

  community meshes with your sense of self the best and is the most fun to be ... In the many days prior to Kresge Kickoff, I kept saying it, kept ... kept repeating it to myself in the hopes that if I said it enough times

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • November 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  vast majority of people are safe to be around in the vast majority of ... in the desert, and it was really difficult to tell beforehand whether ... that they tried to kidnap me. i spent most of my childhood distrusting

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  , neither is it the most "valid" path. Perfectionism wants you to believe that ... to how someone confronts failure. The goal of high achievement is to ... ; The goal of perfectionism is more similar to a survivalist mindset. If

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Brought Something? Um, no. No, we didn't.

  

  There was snow? I kid, I kid. I stayed up for most of the night with ... hours after I left them to go back to my room, snow it did. It wasn't much ... everywhere. That was in no way what I'd been looking forward to. Maybe

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  far, been the most exciting year of my life to say the least. Last year ... that I was in! 2. Arriving at CPW and getting escorted to the second ... . Shooting a bottle-rocket 200 feet in the air and somehow managing to not

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... is in the world and how little I can access in a lifetime, let alone ... . Knowing little has driven me to know more. The best I can do now is take

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018