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• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  to. But I think I'll still make an effort, I guess, to look for ... next night there was an infosession for Splash, with Thai food, then ... Among Us, all in the name of "socializing" and "building community". For

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  no substitute for sleep. Caffeine is great in a pinch, but eventually ... of in awe of the fact that I'd apparently survived almost a full year ... school backgrounds, and freshman year was pretty hard for me. So the fact

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  my door to lock myself in my room. I was worried for my grades ... and I'd be working for three to four hours on a single problem on each ... . This semester, having learned from my freshman year mistakes, I worked in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  narrow them down to just 4 at the beginning of each semester (or 5 for the over-achievers or 6 for the eventually sleep-deprived). Well, at least we ... .042 – Math for Computer Science (just had our first exam, so bleh^2) CMS.100

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  beyond anything that could happen in current times; we were dancing for ... MIT student life in such a liberated and carefree way. Looking back, I ... ...viscerally uncomfortable. Is time real?? I've already lived at my current house for longer

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  Room, for teacher registration. To be fair, it's no less chaotic in here ... ?" and "are there any Citizen Science programs to help look for pulsars ... for, and I feel guilty for not explaining that in my talk. Last class

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  be honest, from the outside looking in, it may appear strange that MIT ... appearances. Clearly we aren’t in this for the fame- have you ever flipped on ... men’s basketball game. Harvard is an NCAA Division I program and we are

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  animal noises. For dinner, we went to another [annotation note="Is an ... If you missed part 1 of the Fredventure, be sure to check that out in ... first stop was the Museu da Amazônia (MUSA for short), where we got to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  mom couldn't explain the rationale for this discrepancy to me in the 7th ... ramifications on my life path, but I do think it all worked out for the best in ... teller and her dad is a truck driver. My mom works in an elementary school

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  became even more confused in college; for example, I became much less ... classes and activities that would prepare me for those requirements in high ... be) be representative of today in history as told by a twenty

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

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  days, whom I met for the first time in person when I arrived for ... -6 videos in bulk, and production would be done horizontally; for example, I ... . Interview answers have been edited for brevity. Give me the one

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  . But even Blindness, which won the Nobel Prize for Literature, pales in ... for a reason to admit you. In other words, we don't connect with pieces ... , English & Environmental Studies double major, minor in film Favorite things

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  longing for nostalgia after leaving home that suddenly piqued my interest in ... I’m typing this entry as I’m over 10,000 feet in the air, flying over ... ’ll be in Columbia, MO, hanging out with my little brother and his dog

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  i’ve known for a while that i’m a pretty awful conversationalist. my strengths in conversations are listening and asking questions, but when people ask me questions i often pause for a while to think before giving a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  .UAT workshop in 32-141. I actually had to look this one up in my email ... processing the trauma for later. So I like to think about the Nisha in a ... things that I had done for the last time that I hadn't realized. My last

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  dropping this class--those scores on psets are about what we look for, and ... , debate just wasn’t quite the right environment for me to perform in, but it was the perfect environment for me to train in. I think that, slowly, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  are your plans for next year???" and I internally scream "I DON'T KNOW ... up for the Fall Career Fair and are interviewing with companies ... am nowhere closer to having an answer. This Monday I put on a nice

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  you for the firehose of an MIT education. But I think if there's any one ... splinters in 10-250 next year, you know the reason. Back when I was in high ... cavorting days as a young'n, and not like how I half think I'll be back in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  what may be a world record for the longest five-foot fall in human ... -repaired phone. Now the screen once more resembles reticulate venation in an oak ... chilly night with an ice cream run with other members of F-entry in which

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  McCormick Observatory in Charlottesville, VA, for their first public ... appealing than humiliating oneself in front of an audience. The question, then ... away and make a home for yourself in a bathroom stall. Dealing with it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012