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• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  hours in a day. There’s a necessary trade off between how much you can do ... ="ugh I love Rowena sm, I even went to a meetup with her in pre-covid times ... , and not infrequently. And this contrast is key. Perfectionism isn’t a

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

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  of free speech to airline companies. I'd go back in a femtoheartbeat ... astrophysically precise.) *In fact, this fact is not factually interesting at all ... your driver's permit. Me: I don't know what a car is. I walked away from

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  ? Chelsea: Um, well, I’m Chelsea. I’m a junior in course 21E. 21E is something ... heard of fanfiction. In a way, it is fanfiction, but there are constraints ... sure about it. But she is actually growing up in a college town, fair

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer restaurant recommendations Some of my favorite restaurants.

  

  A few weeks back, I ran into my friend Andre '08 on the T (that is ... ) restaurant. Summer is a time where students find even more time to explore ... , here is a good summer list of restaurants for students (and campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  art museums at all, and how much we have changed in the past three or ... piano a satisfaction in being able to play decently well, surprisingly ... common feeling; one that feels like riding a stationary bike, which is, you

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  it done in time, but that left me no time to give a good go at 6.006. i ... . copley square is beautiful on a sunny day with clouds. i watched some boys ... it feels like i'm drowning. --- hand foot mouth disease (what a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  social. This is something I really wanted to do a lot more in second ... probably in a month or so). Fencing is so fun! I like it a lot. I hope to ... In my New Year's Resolutions post, I wanted to make a promise to blog

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  otherwise I'd feel incredibly bad for spending my entire morning writing in ... , it's easier to believe that there was time in-between I spent studying ... you an entry on How To Be Cool and Study Abroad, and it just so happens

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  of voting lies not in who wins, but how they treat you once they do? A ... , as they have promised to do repeatedly, but how much easier is it to ... That you vote most certainly does! The following is a guest entry

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  the best purchase I've made in the last year is a wind-proof jacket from ... life in general to be happy with your work, and MIT is a place where this ... was warned about them. 1. The weather in Boston is mildly ridiculous

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  old application posts to remember how to hire bloggers 3) oh right this is how I hire bloggers   Be a blogger! As usual, we ... It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  and got one for free, inexplicably. Will is a logical person who sits in ... humor too, however, since I got an A anyway. In case you didn't care to ... style of a narrated Pokemon card game tournament, the short of it is that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  myself puzzling out how to implement a certain feature in the back of my ... that there are only so many hours in the day. I just didn’t do a ... research in CSAIL; I joined a club on campus; and I’m leaving time to keep

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Events

  PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…

  

  As I pasted in my previous entry, my dorm had a pumpkin carving ... expression on her face -- she obviously is a fruitarian. (I suppose "vegetabletarian" is more accurate.) Me? Not so much. For the handful of you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  any cheer expereince in high school, but I was wondering if it is a pre ... -the-waitlistee) '10, who asked, How many hours a week did you/do you dedicate to cheerleading and how has it helped/hurt your grades, etc? [I'm uh, asking for a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  -deception.' 'How can a man live in perfect harmony?' To which YISUN replied, 'Non ... living in caves, nobody work any more, live that way for a while.” Fiction ... in a fantasy bildungsroman? Yes please. An ongoing webcomic about faith

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  pumpkins to gain health and stop moving. Here is a video of it in action ... MIT, how time flies!) I did a game design class, early solar system ... , the class is about making games using a framework called Love. One of

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  campus as a freshman. While reading these blogs is a great alternative, it ... Institute of Technology. The context of my trip: New York City is a few hours ... SLUSH. Now I was in the State of Massachusetts for the first time. A inch

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  your face. It’s a course where how much you work is directly proportional ... experience showed me once again how easy it is to get lost in the production of ... produce in studio and collect in a portfolio. And this is when I share them

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  ). In the leadup to cruftmas, the hall is always frenzied with a dozen ... working on is embracing spontaneity a little more, which has... uh... never ... even better! (It was also in McCormick, which is apparently hot as balls

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019