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• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  much. I am taking relativity with Prof. H and Prof. E, both of whom are ... was really exciting. my professor for the early universe is a legend and ... me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  Students' Weekend. Admitted high school seniors flood MIT for 3.14 days and ... decisions and left with a certainty, even if I wasn't fully ready to admit it ... least a little! Go around campus itself, physically, and get a sense for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  mediocrity if you go a different path that is riddled with setbacks and ... reconcile with was that I put a lot of time and effort into these, even if the ... reach a lofty bar that you set for yourself. It’s a challenge.  

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  hope for myself and the world as a freshman and sophomore and regrettably ... this remarkable experience and everything that came with it. i know i ... leaves me yearning for a do-over, a second chance at the past four years

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Due Monday important information to make your application complete

  

  Hi y'all - Quick update for our Regular Action applicants. As Matt posted last week, we have been working through our buckets and buckets of ... and emails, and loaded everything into our system. If you are a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  poi and chatting with Tucker '07 (and occasionally swinging a poi at him ... doing something similar (in the "spending a lot of time on it" sense) with ... bad as the previous week's pset. I like alkanes and rotating 3-D

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  angry at all--and was wholly revolutionary. bell hooks wrote with a softness and compassion, with a curious and introspective approach, firm but ... everyday conversation. For example, if you were raising a flag with someone

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  looking for a copy of that, because I wanted to find comfort and familiarity ... -of-the-year bond-with-the-freshmen picnic, and our living group photo for the ... keeps me sane and lively, but there's no substitute for spending a couple

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  that's what I want to study and later do in life. Is there a majore for ... Wow. You guys asked some hard questions! And a lot of them. No ... , and soak up all the trivial goodness that is: Q&A Are MIT students

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  presentation due the next day, and a bunch of work still left to complete for it ... looks and interacts like a real-life pony—and our prototype was lacking a ... stuffing, I emerged at 4:00 a.m. with these beauties. Meet Speedy and Spunky

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  potluck dinner, and emerged with a semblance of a mission statement and a ... , and with a bit of speedy costume change, woke up as zombies complete ... words and one medium, for example, paper, a computer, a video camera, or

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa

  

  should wait around for McDreamy or move on with her life? And wasn't the ... chocolate, and cleansed our pallets with bread and water. (Chocolate, bread, and water = the 3 food groups?) They encouraged us to rub and smell

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  First some backstory. It's 2008, a leap year and a presidential ... for. As you can imagine presidential elections generate a lot of buzz ... a little distracted as of late. Thursday night, I read the news for

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BASICNESS!!!!! a major major update

  

  [/annotation] despite joking about it ±3 times/day. I am and forever will be a chemical ... , a negative evolution. Nonetheless, it is true to my soul, and I found ... science. Note that this is a double major. I am not and will not abandon

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 30, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  for saturday which was 10/10 because i visited a family friend and i ... got switched to hard mode for me after November started (and no, this ... before I sat in Bates Hall for about two hours and made progress on my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  "] ‎[/caption] The water is painted with soft teal waves and tinged with an amber ... spill over. I look out into the distance and squint at where the sky meets ... , the glistening sun rays dance on the water and, behind me, a night

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  decompress and then start working, or I take m a n y hours to decompress and ... with little time to learn the material and finish the psets for my other ... to anxiety, more jaded. I took these stories with a grain of salt since

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  . Every once in a while you walk by a door with a sign on it and you wonder ... out, others aren't. For instance, and It's pretty safe to say that ... radioactive sign is this sign What's a class 3b laser? It's a laser that

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  application than to sit in a classroom for 3 hours on a Saturday and pay someone ... desire to learn and help others. That's what they're looking for in your ... going to MIT since he was 3. He's a mathie and a computer-geek (like his

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  by Visa and MasterCard for currency conversion to Volaris. In return the consumer gets transparency and convenience. “For a low cost ... thought I was a good manager, and wanted to give it a try in a highly

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015