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• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  xiang" - a phrase that alludes to the traditional "tou xiang," a Chinese ... meet new people, and trying new things - the better I adjusted to a new ... interests, and connecting to a new support network when even MORE

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  because of that not only did I find the class to be a little bit easier I ... and into the next year. I have a ton of plans to make sure you guys know ... ). So just in case you don't want to watch the entire video here are a few

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  the dorm, where we proceeded to walk up the steps. There was a guy ... Ivy, and we dragged our luggage to Baker, which is where we would be ... planned to go on a campus tour (which started every half hour), but missed

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  doing laundry. (The “Did You Know?” opener is a throwback to the olden ... to start my entries with some useless metaphor instead.) A few weeks ... you guys can get back to thinking about regular action decisions. A

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  ask me questions i often pause for a while to think before giving a ... factor might be that the presence of other people forces me to think at a higher level of rigor than i’m used to the other day i called a stranger

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  applicants to find inventive new ways to complete the application both in ways ... guidance.  While the sheer number of ways that applicants find to not follow ... to have complete information. I know some feel like it may be a hassle

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  students who've never touched a nerf gun before the opportunity to shoot one. i wanted to give middle school and high school students a chance to go ... ? they'd ask. i have a friend who used to live on floorpi, and he always

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  sounded agreeable, so I snagged a freshman (Trevor '13) and we went to ... and really wanted to help us build it, so he showed us where everything ... Rush. Floor Rush allows freshmen to wander the different floors of a dorm

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Central Square Dance Party You can even play the videos and dance along to them. It'll be like you…

  

  doesn't mean that there's less to do - in fact, I find my days are STILL packed, just in a different way. (Which is maybe perhaps why my blogging ... 've been on for the past two months.*) A couple weekends ago the city of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Film! [by Nathan '14] Documenting Science Through Video and New Media

  

  how to use serious equipment to create a film. Above is a photo of me ... went with Doug, a fellow ARTalk blogger, and our friend Natthida, over to the MFA to see a screening of the documentary Urbanized. It is by Gary

  • by ARTalk
  • November 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  putting some Chef Boyardee in a pot for lunch. That's not to say that I ... directly. Her boyfriend, Chris, just flew in to visit, so she cooked a real ... thought it would be a good time to finally try some real cooking. April

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  Interested in different paths you can take to get a masters degree ... Science) stayed a fifth year at MIT this school year to earn his masters in ... he strongly encourages you to check out a complete listing of all the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  referring to free space in a schedule, like a buffer period. but there's a ... wanted to do a big task XYZ. they split it into three tasks, X, Y, and Z ... . in both cases, Y has slack, with or without a buffer. to be clear: the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  intentionally, I just ended up tearing up when trying to explain a situation. I ... . The need to look young and beautiful is a shackle, the kind that you ... looked eerily similar to my mom. Over winter break she showed me a picture

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  likely to see someone wearing a cape than a popped collar. ... Admissions: In a kind of virtuous circle, the "second tier" schools got better as applications rose and they could become choosier in assembling a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  introducing me to African culture and recognizing where we as a people are from ... have to cure cancer and save a child from a burning orphanage?"). Anyway, the old series about the now rising juniors is worth a read. Back to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  graduate school to being a professor, or from medical school to being a ... would be huge: Go to college. Go to graduate school. ??? Be a ... took a leap of faith and applied to MIT. I took the first steps, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Holidays with the Huangs a nondenominational celebration of capitalism and duck

  

  meaning to get around to. Here's one to try if you have a DSLR. If you don ... I've been home for almost a week now and I've done nothing but sleep ... refuse to wear anything else.) I've slowly been getting myself back to good

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  . Said illusion is currently failing to function. Case in point: Where did ... wish I had more time to do. I actually have a list: 1. Visit the Museum of Science/Museum of Fine Arts - MIT students get in free to a lot of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  college is supposed to be a stepping-stone to adulthood, where ... and beautiful enclave where it's okay to fail at being real adults, a ... ’m still adjusting to this environment, but i don’t feel like a functioning

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019