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• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  pendulum, I'm at the peak, or reaching it. Sure, I’ve felt stress ... ’s no winning or losing, or cheering from the sidelines every step of the way, no stakes or day drinkers or monetary gain), legs sprinting one in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  This is more of a mini-entry, a blogget if you will. I know that for ... , and Admissions will be able to tell if you'll like it here, and ... wrote about on that application will. (Which is not you, in case you didn

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  through their living group, or will they seek this elsewhere, be it through classes or clubs? Will they spend their time after class working with their suite/floor/hall, or will they return to their rooms only at the end of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  you buy all your food from the dining hall. Salmon with chunky tzatziki ... -busting, totally superfluous meal plan, MIT doesn't force you to buy a meal plan at ... other people who buy a meal plan even though they don’t have to. If you

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  them. I'd often ask questions like "Will this work right away or are we ... roommates or buying Hades, this was the peak of my semester. I had such a ... for a student extracurricular, not a full time position or internship

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have ... -minded view that most of the things in my life were "just normal" or universal ... first I was skeptical about mixing soda or fruit juice with red wine

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Something to chalk about “These murals are f*cking rad” – Petey

  

  ) or crayons though, but with chalk. I blogged about some of the awesome ... reasons I will not get into"]many were erased over the past summer ... this post! Floors 1 and 2 [carousel image1="99449" image2="99455" image3

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  "there's so much going on that you're bound to find something that will get your blood flowing, your mind thinking, or your heart racing." At the ... stores glucose in cells). Since adiponectin is used to metabolize, or break

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  will be biased towards international students because I want to show my ... students. Do not let the high tuition or low admission rate discourage you ... friendships that I’ve developed here. 1. Orientation, FPOP All new international

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Honse. Nnnyeeeeeeiiiiiigghhhghhhghhhhhh!!!!! 🐎

  

  I'm taking a glass sculpting class this semester! And not to brag or anything, but I am incredibly skilled at making glass ponies. [caption id ... out and start selling glass ponies in the streets of Venice. [image

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  test for prefrosh identification - more useful than phenolphtalein or even the flame test. No CPW-goer would set out for a day's adventures ... every 7 minutes or - more closely resembling reality - for 8 to begin on

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  fall ‘25 this will not be one to miss.  [carousel image1="106669" image2 ... be my [annotation note="familiar readers of my blogs will realise that ... write your own algorithms”, or you could call it “the fucker that kept me

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  MASLab (a.k.a. Mobile Autonomous System Laboratory, or course number 6 ... Firm Handshake, Joke Telling, or Networking/Business Etiquette. Other ... classes earn a Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctoral degree in Charm. When I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  several-month homestay, which I imagine will be an adventure. The hike ... the situation. We had one very steep, final push to go before reaching ... . Somehow, it let up right when we reached the bottom and left the shelter

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  completing tasks and reaching goals is not the only way to measure care or ... out of the semester or a weak ideology with which I choose classes and ... ’t take [annotation note="Algebraic Topology II"]18.906[/annotation] or some

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  past two years have been great, and I anticipate that the next two will ... have reached the point in my major where I am taking classes that are teaching me things that I will be using in my future career. It is a great

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  . I will be continuing data analysis during IAP, and we are hopefully publishing a paper in the coming month or so! I will be sure to update you all ... plans for the future, and also will be hitting the 50% point in my book

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  whether I was cheering my pals in the pits or cheering MIT on Scholarship ... and Finalists will also receive a congratulatory letter from Susan ... surprise address was given by Arne Duncan, the Secretary of Education of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  will always regret that, but regardless, the feeling is still the same. I ... found the show and I binged what was available on Netflix (seasons 1-4, at ... true for so long." Cliches like "Live, laugh, love!" or "Family first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation ... they will happen to me again, and yet I am always caught off guard ... ’m editing his memoir in exchange for the personal training he usually sells

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014