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• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  on the 'reading is very important' train."]with the explicit goal of ... the most important choice of all. You have to find a way to let go of ... up at the end of the day. To summarize, I have fooled myself into

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  1949, and the renovation of the Riverside Apartment Hotel into Burton ... ? These aspects aren't at the top of my head when I walk into my dorm, walk ... 's more of a barrier to randomly walking into someone's open room to say hi

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  paintings, into a collection of exquisite chambers. The public spaces in the ... importance of scenery setting the mood for the opera, it at least provides an ... allowed into part of the neighborhood that is usually hidden—the underground

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  of stumbling into a "friends we made along the way"-adjacent ending, if ... In 2012 everything about life at MIT felt important: [annotation note ... brains"]UROPs,[/annotation] [annotation note="Program Director and host of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  Aquarius or Year of the Horse is Not Important and you don't need to base ... factors, but most importantly, don't let yourself get in the way of your own ... , but for a Set of Inexplicable Reasons it did not go up in time and has

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  into the context of SSBM and balances everything out. I usually play Link ... So I've been in classes here for, as of yesterday, one whole month ... the pace of the content that was being fed to me. Turns out, (for me

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  be the most important of my life, yet they felt so uninspired on the ... weren't MIT, I settled into a groove of writing for the college ... Not every writer is an artist. Not every piece of writing is a work

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  't super engaging anymore, i don't have much to invest into the host of ... goals, each of which was written into my bullet journal with much ... ] get into the habit of stretching after you work out don't try to jump

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  I cried into the late hours of the night. I was stressed by my classes ... ). This is MIT's way of easing freshmen into the grading system. However ... of thrown into it all, taking 3, 4, maybe even 5 classes on normal

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  're not going into these exams cold -- you have a strong base of knowledge ... thousands of dollars that are flowing back and forth on paper between you and ... had a lot of papers out, and was frantically scribbling numbers on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  is vital, as is communication with parents on the importance of such ... Every so often, during the Q&A portion of an MIT information ... hair-pulling by even the brightest students. But in the rare cases of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  pictures of neurons. 2. Starting to plan a really important party for next ... different places on the blog. It's been a pretty important part of my life for the past three years, both in terms of getting me into grad school (the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  's important in each dorm: the people. Some of the dorms at MIT are more ... choice I get the feeling that a lot of people find MIT's dorm choice ... . Late May/early June -- receive a booklet with descriptions of each dorm

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

   clack-clack-clack-clack coming from in front of the elevators. Curious, you peer into the antechamber ... , or 21st-Century Journalism. Walking around MIT means running into ... , pretty much quiet. Walking up the main steps into Lobby 7, the tweetweet

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  in swim class, our instructor emphasizes the importance of relaxing. "you're in the water and your body tenses up. why? it's because of the ... muscles will help you float. but it doesn't. you've got to let go of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  -exact replica of the MBTA Red Line. This marks a pretty important moment for ... If I were to show you the following series of pictures, how would you relate them? Some of my favorite guesses? "MIT is obviously

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  sense of awe. I still feel it every time I look up into the cold night sky ... , what might be my short term and long term goals, it's important to go a ... blink of the eye really in the scheme of things, back across the years

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  brain discards the importance of the goal and leaves a vague feeling of ... one here is one of my tiny struggles over the past few weeks, and it ... day, where i deconstruct a little the notion of being productive. it is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Need help choosing a MISTI program? MIT-Germany alum Nina Sinatra advises incoming interns to keep an open mind

  

  difficulty in integrating into a German community; the vast majority of people ... Nina Sinatra Class of 2012 Materials Science & Engineering ... students who are considering MISTI to think of the program both in terms of

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  attendees novel-length directories of the events and important stuff at CPW ... script to scrape the schedule off of our site and put it into iCal format ... spent most of the last week working on stuff for Campus Preview Weekend

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010