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• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  you who are applying to MIT EA, the deadline tomorrow is probably one of ... .  [annotation note="The startup featured in this silly story is definitely not ... this lobby is pretty sliiick. Two glass walls frame the entrance to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  myself to the mat, unable to progress beyond the most rudimentary of levels ... 're not going to see the point in trying to recover it. You're going to be ... There are a lot of phrases in the english language that can be used

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  in lab. The most exciting thing that happened to me is when my work got ... pending patents and is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his ... this is the case with other people as well, but I had the luxury to pick

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  . Pass/No Record is not an excuse to slack off and not learn the basics ... all MIT students. MIT is one of the few institutions in the world that ... . In the long run, it's better to judge the rest of MIT - and its

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  had to do a live performance in front of retired cast members. the first ... , the thing that they do most is rehearsal. my first few rehearsals were ... real thing". is there a real thing in the first place? am i so worried

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  . The truth is, like perhaps many of the 1,116 freshmen in the class of ... , the psets are already rolling in, the reading is piling up, and the ... is one supposed to describe the experience of plunging headfirst into

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  know how to do is stick their noses in books and that older doctors dread ... I don't want to rule out. I'm thinking things must have changed in the ... that graduated in June also went on to med school. One of the reasons my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  . Whoever the new housemaster is, I'm only going to have to live with him or ... . And the students also figure that they're going to be gone in a few ... Job! to my friends who were involved in it, but the reason I bring it up

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  everything in our way! *Warcry* *Praise the sun* *Well, what is it?* Game ... remain focused during IAP. Focus is really the hardest thing to maintain ... to: Serial, In the Dark, Dirty John, and Dr. Death. Video games

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• 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 / 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 / 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 / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  to a temple, which was one of the most beautiful complexes I have ever ... few of the kids from came up to talk with me…they were all interested in ... something was probably wrong after I had been sitting alone in the x-ray room

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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