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• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  This is Anna Ho, reporting live from her transition to being 21 years ... that whenever you go to the doctor's office and state your birth date ... /husband/estranged son-in-law/daughter/stepson). Everyone seems to know one Halloween baby

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  , you have to at least look into it, right?” the first place i looked was ... ! anyways, i’m here to talk about IAP! i used my first IAP to rest from 1st ... partner was MIT’s Lincoln Lab (which we were able to tour during the first

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  Academy works so well. The key to the success of his early videos, he says ... professionalism, was the necessary component. Also key, Khan says, is to enjoy the ... roast chicken-mashed avocado-jicama sandwich and talking to my sister on

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  would be fun to read. Be warned - I may (read: will) overdramatize a good ... day tubes made it to South Florida, Neha '10 (that's Mr. Neha to you and ... came, so she drove to school to give her the tube. Kris '10 and I were in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  little better, and wasn't that always the goal in the first place? To make ... impossible to think, or to make any useful decisions at all. I wake up and feel ... activity I’ve done in the past day. This unshakable exhaustion is not new to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  ’t able to cover in class time. For me, these videos were the first step in ... Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology ... the first Festival here. This post is the second of a series of three

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  more time in my life than I’m willing to devote to it. The key here is to ... video creators sharing various approaches to being more productive, having ... , and can easily spend an hour watching videos about how not to

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

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  first through the tunnels under the infinite corridor (she wanted to go to ... one stop, to cross the river[/caption]   Last Friday, the first ... back home to New York. I took my last final exam, for [annotation note

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  directly related to software engineering while also granting first ... sophomore without a first-year or faculty advisor to approve the registration ... computer science). So why am I taking (and planning to take) so many course

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  , as I hurried down the Infinite and out into the cold. “Junior year is ... addict myself to new sources of caffeine).  When we stress-test welds in ... . “Objectively you have a limit,” I thought to myself. "Somewhere north of four

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  college. Not even for a bit! (I'm starting to think I'm always more homesick ... opportunities MIT churns out every year to send my friends everywhere from DC (okay, that's not really abroad!) to London to Paris to Seoul... I just

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  desk[/annotation] beseeching us to pick up our packages: Hi all, The ... Amazon’s six-month free Student Prime trial, I would like to offer a personal apology to the BC front desk (and also mother nature) for being

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  When I graduated in 2018, I was talking to my partner about how lost I felt. Igniting civic engagement on campus and advocating for peer to ... . I didn’t know what to do with myself or what was important to me

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  in Bedford, New Hampshire, home to inventor and FIRST founder Dean Kamen. Today is the kickoff to the FIRST Robotics season. And, as is the ... , FIRST Overdrive (competition animation here), is sure to be quite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  conformity—there are two reprieves I turn to. First is to retreat inside my ... , to me, existed as a series of songs someone had compiled in a You ... —urged to attend by other people on my hall involved in the production

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  infinite expanse (and by infinite, I mean probably like 70 feet, if I had to ... for the dramatic. At first, it was so easy to fixate on everything that ... was the one pulling the launch string) so I didn’t get to see it happen

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  ’s consider the proper mathematical way of solving the problem first. To do this ... infinite long-term memory. However, to store information in the long term, we ... If you've been to a high school math class recently, you probably

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  Although I do make active attempts to avoid goopiness and ... a woman who cries at telephone commercials, and I'm actively trying to ... my last Registration Day, when all MIT students visit their advisors to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Me: A Video Tour of Campus in which you get to hang out with my friends and walk around MIT through…

  

  allergies and how to pronounce the word "Stata". If that sounds like a fun way to spend your next 21 minutes, then you're in luck. Boy, oh boy, do I have the video for you. Our goal was to make an accessible, virtual tour

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 23, 2017
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  , Nikki, and I first met in January to discuss our options, and after weeks ... “Other duties as assigned” is a concept well-known to admissions officers; it’s a catch-call term used by employers to encompass all the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024