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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  can now see the summer as something whole and fully past. Back in May, I ... . Evaluate on these three measures: i) how much fun you had ii) how much ... rituals, not routines. I spent the summer mostly in Cambridge, with trips

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  spare time. Anastassia: “I can answer that counter-chronologically in Blog ... to Miami as I departed to see THE DALAI LAMA in his talk on ethics ... . Furthermore, I also participated in another form of dance, playing dodgeball, in

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  how much you can handle on your plate in addition to your classes.  Join ... involves taking 3-4 classes in a certain subject. For example, I plan on ... and try the hardest you can in your classes - the semester will be over

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Saturday Night in Simmons it's so busy here tonight [i really need to study or go to sleep]

  

  enough space to run around. And some good shoes you can hard brake in. I ... all night again.] said that she has NEVER ONCE seen me locked in. And I ... sleeping or studying. I do actually need to lock in for my two finals next

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  blog post ever! I hope you enjoy following my adventures in MIT ... "LP" or any shorter name - I don't know why). If you live in southern ... bawled her eyes out. Her husband (my brother-in-law) and I made fun of her

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  revel in the idea that every day I come to work I can discover what ... "the new Ben." For those who don't remember Ben Jones I can instead say ... decide if you can't imagine spending your college life anywhere else. In

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Vroom Vroom! Hey! I know him!

  

  websites that I check every day. They are, in no particular order, xkcd ... I have a friend named Charles Guan '11. He was my lab partner in 2.004 and I've worked with him on a variety of other projects. He's always

  • by Snively '11
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  were some of the few things that I actually attended after finding it in ... nd in miserable weather, I did homework. Yep. My host Jennifer (a ... in a Baker House lounge. I thought, hey, might as well get that AP Lit

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do ... you. Unfortunately, I can't do that yet, but I can write these ... Wednesday I had marching band practice and no time in between class and work

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  scary? So what! Live a little, get over here (I live in EC, and I don ... that's not true, and I also know firsthand that even those 'jocks' can be ... . That $20 in tech cash they give you? Use it right away for non-food (buy

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  basic things you need to know about me and this blog you can read about in my biography, but here's a little more! I was born in China, grew up ... I was 8, and then to several other places before settling down in New

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  , or the day before? When I think about endings, I think about how, in ... I can no longer remember everything we did. I'm in Boston again, and ... how it's different from my old one, and the best I can come up with is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  .009 course website:  "In 2.009, Product Engineering Processes ... ! Sleep Deprivation Time! I'm using so many exclamation points because I ... 5 hours or so! Well, not really! But hooray!  Sarcasm aside, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  figuring out an answer to “how hard can I work, and what am I working towards ... look back at how different i was as a freshman. a lot of the things that ... , but it completely changed how i understand the world, and now i'm doing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  playground. And it felt pretty darn cool because I was no longer in a rush to ... freshest MIT admits, and over the summer, if I can make it, it’s time to ... events. Before junior year, I spent the whole summer in the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Intense Procrastination There's a difference between procrastination and INTENSE PROCRASTINATION!

  

  ? Instead I listened to the new Muse album (go buy it now) and found a solo in ... in a nice piece of sheet music. I looked around on YouTube to see if ... Today I had a ton of work to do. To be fair, I did accomplish some of

  • by Snively '11
  • September 19, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  week and next. I remember this week in late March as a very scary time ... . Now, I could go on and on about how “well, you’ll be happy wherever you ... , you’ll do amazing things anyway.” I can show you all the world

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  'm doing good work that i can be proud of, and like i'm contributing a ... Cyberspace. I am also thinking about this week's topic in CMS.701, echo ... result of a personalized search in which a website algorithm selectively

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  for MIT. I had never rowed before college, but I fell in love with the sport and can’t imagine my MIT years without it. I am sharing my story ... : Growing up, I never thought I’d become a college rower. I was a swimmer in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  plushies. Then, when I was in fourth grade, my best friend and I learned how ... ’m finally back in a place where I need scarves and hats, and now I can make ... plenty of things I did in high school that brought me joy, fulfillment, and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024