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• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  .'"]childhood.[/annotation] There's usually food in the house, laundry doesn't cost $2.50, and I can take long showers. I can watch cable TV on an actual TV. My car is in the ... how I'm always chewing gum. This is because in high school, I was always

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  about that. To be willing to risk and to explore. I'm sorry in a way that ... ignorance, and apply it to the situations. I think kids interested in science ... who are just tuning in ;) I really should do this more often, since I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  . I want to speak up more and learn how to speak up better--in other ... -year-old college student at MIT, typed quickly in Hayden Library. Today, I got up to ... thinking that it was in February; I don’t know why, I didn’t even “get

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  ...here we are). This past January, I learned how to code (again). On a whim ... learn how to also beep boop. Regardless, I suffered through 6.145, with a ... .042, despite doing poorly in the class. It's ironic, because I actually had a C

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  .01; Physics I)! 3 excruciating hours in an indoor track field - can't say I did ... ." Chris S: "My finals and I can write a bad romance." Hamsika: "Finals ... in that class! I'll be glad when it's 12:01 PM on Thursday, at which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  Bloggers...just wait until you see me in the Infinite in the Fall. I can ... : Procrastination Technique #5: SLEEP I can't tell you how nice it is to sleep more ... to study right? So what I've learned is that you can only read a book

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Finally! Pictures from the Conner 2 holiday party! Yes that was a month ago. Leave me…

  

  to comments: Daniel: Hey, the EMT class sounds cool! I had no idea how ... I fixed it. Thanks a bunch. Moral of the story: I can't spell, but neither can google, so it's ok. Curtis: Though I actually have a few

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  : Notice how I stare at Zach in awe as he scarfs down dog number 7. I am just ... 'll try to get funding, but bring some money along in case I can't. It ... to do it, how is that even hard!?" Matt and Ben were skeptic. I was

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  can bring. I've gone searching for this hum everywhere I go. In my ... echoed in my bones. As I looked around, I saw others marching along ... difficult to follow, too hard to keep in time with. Erratic. Flighty. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  I can remember, back when I was applying to MIT, there were two huge ... and happily use it every day. Coming into MIT I had no idea how students used their address. I used Gmail so I'd just go to Gmail.com and log in

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  because I feel like I am Good at math, but because I can feel small ways in ... understand just how brutal mathematics can be. As if, I was lying to myself by ... , I try to be.” - my blogger bio, circa summer 2023 In one of the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  I'm trying too hard. Maybe a lot of people are like this--in the first ... that, because in real life we all want to be cool. Note also that I am ... importance of being emotionally open, but in real life I am not like that at

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  : "MIT is full of amazing people, I don't think I'm all that amazing, how can I fit in?" It's a question that's been on the forefront of my mind ... best you can be at it. Why? Because if you do this, greatness in some

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Sounding Stupid More Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  you’re wrong, even in the face of undeniable evidence. You can always ... How To Avoid Sounding Stupid* *All advice should be taken with a ... in class; everyone around you will think you’re stupid for not

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  in Beijing called Linked Hybrid. Of course I had to see Simmons' sister in Beijing before I left, so I looked up the coordinates on Google ... behind highway overpasses, cars, random trees - in a phrase: see but can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  months immersing myself in as many books as I can cram in the windows of ... semester was kind of in a lull period in terms of work, I vowed to finish a ... succeeded in this by reading The Alchemist and The Road, I quickly found

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  weekends when I can. PA is colder than Boston, or it feels that way. In the winter the grass is covered in hoarfrost (иней in Russian, I learned) that ... I spent this past IAP at home in Central Pennsylvania. This is where

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  it exists. I went to the preprofessional advising site, but I can ... regular decision apps must be in- preferably longer, but I know you are in the middle of early apps) where I can find more information? My book is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  Dear Applicant, it’s 3:14 am, and i'm sitting in a smoky kitchen ... no role in a student’s success. “you can make it anywhere,” we want to ... ." the 2018s were all in your place last year. i spent the whole of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  interview at 3.45 PM. Now do keep in mind that I went to sleep at about 4 am ... 'm starting early so I can have time to make my decision and figure out a number of logistical issues like housing, etc. So how do I go about finding a

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005