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• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  that’s kind of the appeal, if I’m honest – I can have other people read ... positive trait. It’s about overstating your goals, setting your expectations ... they might be too high. In this sense, it’s all about constantly

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  MIT.  Everyone’s saying ‘all the things you could be if you go to MIT ... To think there’s something to me. I got invited to a party...   ... serious?  When I look in the mirror it’s just Blahh blah blah blah blegh

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  it’s MIT’s fly-in program where rising high school seniors learn about ... year’s program and further details here. I will now spend the rest of ... researched what the best place to study math was. “[MIT]’s where I’ll go,” she

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  like to finally be on MIT’s campus. As my Uber pulled up on Mass Ave, the ... happening. And yet, that moment is embedded into my mind. It’s the first thing I experienced when I got on campus. It’s a moment I won’t ever forget

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  , Italy through MISTI’s (MIT International Science and Technology Initiative ... : Ciao, Italy. Because of the snowstorm in the Northeast of the U.S ... York’s JFK airport (where my trans-atlantic flight was leaving from) out

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  the Early Action (EA) deadline. We know that there’s been a ton of ... poke your interviewer if it’s been a couple days since you reached out to ... hit submit on everything from your end by Nov. 1 for Early Action. That’s

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  Wow! It’s been a while since my last blag. I couldn’t blag during IAP ... ’re late. It’s about as fast as you can go without running, and you don ... , which is really cool. It’s exciting (though perhaps a bit more stressful

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  -page in-depth analysis on the tone of the main character’s dog’s whimper ... accelerator? That’s okay, because the internet is a helpful thing!) (Don’t want a build a particle accelerator? That’s okay too, I guess.) Learn a

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  . It means coats. It means I better go shopping soon. It’s October and there’s a northeaster, which means it’s cold and gloomy and windy. My ... real winter (another season whose clothes I do not own (let’s not talk

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  in the mainstream, so for a department at one of the world’s most ... gendered words to refer to people for a very very long time, and it’s just ... ’t necessarily mean it’s good or desirable. I think that if our society were to

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT ... , or CPW as it’s often written, was a scene that had unfolded in many of ... next four years. Now, there’s definitely no way to get the full breadth

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  -frosh, at the CPW of 2012. My host was a rower on the men’s lightweight team ... for the men’s heavyweight team and the man who would teach us the basics ... a rowing treadmill) and rowing in the boathouse’s indoor tank, we were

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  , etc. I feel that it’s important to have knowledge on how to be safe in ...     What to bring to college (Yuliya K. 18’s post) Things ... (Michael C. '16's Post!)   Being An Adult     Budgeting

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  Wow. So this is what official blagging* is like. It’s nice to meet ... defining “Home”. It’s something I didn’t really know I would have to do. It’s ... was pretty awesome! Although it’s already been five months, I still find

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  MIT is not about the challenges of problem sets. It’s about a ... doing homework with them and talking until too late. It’s about the way ... country, and then a far-off state. Now I’m here, and it’s so much better

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  Dear Pass/No Record*, I’m breaking up with you. But don’t worry, it’s not you, it’s me. I’ve moved on. Don’t get me wrong though. We had our ... come to an end. But let’s not dwell on the past. I’m with spring semester

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  . That’s why investors like me. That’s why you like me. That’s why I ... dress like or what business decisions people normally make. So that’s my ... more from just going and thru-hiking then I ever could have from Greg’s

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  understanding anything until I actually do it, so it’s refreshing to have that opportunity to practice right then and there in a situation that’s fully ... it’s going well so far; the first challenge was to build, within budget

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  wondering why it’s been so long since I last updated you with anything. It’s ... awesome desktop image. 9. I was working on this:   It’s a wind ... with different themes. This year’s topic was Portable Windmills. At the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  doing the Housing Lottery—reading and watching i3s, visiting dorm websites ... , yet it was still difficult to make sense of each living group’s general ... early 2000s. It originally began as an opt-in survey of a very few, very

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011