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• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  up. Take them for what you will. On Homesickness Everyone is lonely ... of coping with being away from home. My only good advice for homesickness is merely this: don't stay in your dorm room. At least for me, I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  the bike for commuting for the past few years. It wasn’t in the best ... one would notice for weeks; these include things like "big iff [if and ... scooting around campus much less from now on :o For the past 3 years, my

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  Habits for AY 2017 (Academic Year 2017) I’m trying something a little ... blog posts, but today, I thought I’d just do what I normally save for ... . Sometimes it turns out ok, I think. I’ve often had too much reverence for The

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  to learn for the test. For an AP. For a final. The singular goal was to pass. And this was good enough for high school. This was enough to get ... , almost like my innate daftness is an excuse for not being able to learn. In

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  very interesting to read. So today, I thought I’d try my best to just ... write a peppy post about personalities (which is still on the way for a ... to a sense of motionlessness, that progress for women in the workplace

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  for most of my life i was very prone to envy. part of that was ... , and so on - but it also extended to non-academic endeavors as well. for ... can be a good way for you to meet new people, having acquaintances with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  " align="aligncenter" width="1600"] (click for better visibility)[/caption] The initial idea I got the inspiration for this from one of my favorite ... closest taxonomic approximations I could get for each mascot. Depending on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  papers for [annotation note="seminar in advanced undergraduate research"]6 ... floor in despair and baking cookies for my [annotation note ... reading papers that could best be summarized with titles like [annotation

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  to watch the movie! As for the movie itself, I sobbed like a little ... movie since I think everyone should see it for themselves but this movie truly felt like it came at the right time for me. Everything Everywhere

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  be best to eat Oreos upon waking up for class. But if you slather ... to be true. Some truths are easy. For example, the addition of peanut ... ? Easy. On the other hand, some truths are difficult. For example, MIT is

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  regional term you use for a major road that you drive relatively fast on ... for the past 10+ years, I have had no need for a car and have instead happily relied on public transportation to get around. Recruiting for MIT

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best from staff

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  Herd," who constantly competed for the top GPA and class rank whenever ... for the prestige), and would often belittle me and make me feel dumb in ... paired up with one student in the nerd herd for a quiz, the rest of the

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  When I was first applying for the GEL program, I heard a lot of ... program designed specifically for engineers, or is there really a difference ... like a carnival for job-seeking undergrad and grad students. Some

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  've been at school.. I watched Say Anything for the first time and have decided a better course of action for my life would be to leave MIT and ... ? But you're a second semester senior! It's widely advertised as the best

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meta

  

  started blogging for Admissions, I wrote a number of what were basically essays on subjects that I had been thinking about for a long time, and had ... . So I started floundering when looking for inspiration. Or at least, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  of my HASS classes. The first pset was for 16.901 "Computational ... " scale. Pset number two was for 16.05 "Thermal Energy" or more ... and taking a nap for the rest of the semester. Each project is quite

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  same sequence of notes. There is so much I wanted to do for IAP for no ... . One thing I did do is fry forty-six meatballs this weekend for the Mafia ... or potato-bean soup for the Mafia potluck at NH4, and Sam's Mom settled

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  to Budget where my rental car was supposed to be waiting for me. I ... , but I'm going to hook you up with something better for the same price ... brand new, gleaming silver Ford Mustang GT, which I was getting for the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  admissions for a long time, and (finally!) here goes. First, an important definition. For purposes of MIT Admissions, an international student is a ... MIT international admissions. 1. MIT is need blind for all students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  ’s moments like these where, even though we make fun of MIT for its rigor and ... inside joke turned into a source of pride for not only the fraternity and MIT, but for all of Boston, and it was soon commemorated as a public

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023