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• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  existed in a constant state of "how should I be spending my time?". Working ... tested it, adjusting it as I went, adding or removing things I felt would ... of habit, I knew that simply doing things repetitively would set the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  enrollment decision. If you're still undecided: How can we help you make your decision? What more would you like to know about MIT? What are your lingering concerns? I am available, as are all of the bloggers, to field questions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  to bring back our [annotation note="so i would attach a photo, but they ... note="one of the dorms at MIT, also where i live ... DEFINITELY couldn’t lose.  I am the Resident Peer [annotation note="to be

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  scuba do or scuba don’t? under the sea

  

  Every Thursday at 6:45pm for about two months, I trudged fifteen ... up at the pool. The first time I went, I thought I got lost and ended ... double the amount of PE points (4 points! I’m halfway done). Included among

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • November 17, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  [/annotation] for this semester before I realized I would have two desks, which has ... Since the end of August, I've been living on-campus in Simmons in a double. My room is huge, and I have two sets of furniture, which really

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  get some exercise. I was horrified at how quickly I became out of breath ... has this sign by the front door, which I thought I would share… "She ... ", otherwise known as "Physics I: Mechanics" (Masochists, Mechanics

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  I recently bought a pair of rollerblades for $8 from the Garment ... of clothes in a pile being sold at a dollar fifty a pound - and I think I probably haven't looked this uncool since my fouth-grade days of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  ! Mitra was all, "oh, let's run 8 miles, Spammy" and I haven't learned how ... crisis, I guess. Fearful I would be late for the rafting trip's departure ... I have so much work to do tonight, but I just fell off a treadmill in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  , and after discovering how hard it is just to take care of goldfish, I ... Sunday, my friend Jen, '08 - Course 14, and I went out pet shopping ... Berry Smoothies and Lightning Bolt-shaped Rice Krispy treats (I wonder

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  that I would be going to India over IAP, working with AIM for Seva (a non ... . Half the time, I gave up and broke into giggles, amused by how ridiculous ... for how I could make my project even better. Anywayyy. I feel like

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  place, it's perfect for me, but I definitely understand how people can be ... around this time. I can hardly believe how much has changed in just one ... be occupying many of your minds, and so I'd like to offer some brief

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  I’ve learned more about the inner workings of MIT from my summer job than I learned in one year of being a student… and I’m not even working for the Institvte! This summer I’m on staff for the Research Science

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  to how prevalent creme soda is as a flavour in South Africa. I grew up ... I knew and loved. “Why would it ever be that colour?” “Neither ... home, but I never imagined it would happen to me too. Here were my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  example, wrote: "I didn't know about the anime club. I would have never ... life would be like here, and that was part of why I wanted to come." Ben ... , and Chris M.!): M.I.T. Taking Student Blogs to Nth Degree By TAMAR LEWIN

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  would take us 22.5 hours, crossing[annotation note="I mean, we were in ... regret how I spent my undergrad, but rather that it is a modality of living ... 's Island in Maine, along with Nathan S. '25 and Jonathan H. '25, I took my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  importance of having many cultures and learning from them. Today, I would like ... I often told my college roommate, who was from Adelaide: nice try. As a cosmopolitan, sophisticated friend of the world, I welcome their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  Happy IAP! Today's events (sadly, I missed the Experimental Chocolate Truffle-Making, and am currently missing the OrigaMIT Paper Folding) I ... questions... Pia writes, "Last summer I interned at a Neuroscience Lab. What

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  . . . . I'll never forget meeting Melis Anahtar at FLP -- she has such a ... . One night my first semester here, I was struggling with an 18.02 problem. My roommate couldn't figure it out either, so I decided to ask Melis

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

   size (i.e. how many) points there are in the shadows of $A$, can we get a ... is how I learned about this problem. Part 2: The Lessons (aka the life ... sometimes ask me how I got into the type of math that I do. And my response is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  simpler. I was in China visiting relatives all IAP. That would be my last ... the family vs. career concern. "How many, if you had to choose, would ... in the hall raised their hands. "How many would choose their career

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008