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• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  . Pass/No Record is not an excuse to slack off and not learn the basics ... . Don't save all your work for the night before it's due. Seriously. Caffeine is not a substitute for sleep. Try and get 8 hours a night - your

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  really, not all of you know each other and you're all cool, and people who ... , if MIT says we should do it, then why not? We ordered burgers and ... without arrows." Arrows scare me. Dancing should not involve arrows! It just

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  work. A few of us were sitting around the kitchen yesterday discussing ... were corduroys." Not Sam: "Okay, I wore bathing suit bottoms today ... Trapp in The Sound of Music, and, try as I might, I could not convince the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  probably not overwhelmingly organized and the thought of lists is laughable, but they work! Not only is this the time where you can catalog your ... courtship, the ceremony, the cost. So it's not surprising many players compare

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  should’ve gotten over it by now. Of course, that’s not how trauma works ... money is going to the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund. I've been working on this ... not acknowledge how stressful, overwhelming, and difficult the world has

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  's part of the job description. if he doesn't do it, then he's not doing his job. dan: why can't we just take a break from blogging? it's not as if ... legitimate worries. cj: but that's not. that's not the point! i was trying to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  that I've picked up on that I realize are not quite the norm. Being home around my family who does not know a thing about MIT while simultaneously having to explain how MIT works to curious 24s has made me realize that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  the blogs, even though they're not really finished. agent jynnie ... me. The climb to 5West was not terribly laborious and was well greeted ... La La Land did not win (and it’s not a joke!). Afterwards I learned

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  taxes, which can double the price of a car. I’m not sure how this ... [annotation note = "not that such things seem to exist in Copenhagen"]big pick ... of which presumably have working hand brakes, which I can only

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  'm not working. My roommate and I also have some great collaborative ideas ... work plans for the next nine months. I told my parents, and the plan was ... balance" I mean both not having enough time for some activities and not

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  note="for those like me, who are not marathon runners, or runners at all ... before your mind does. I started working at the MIT Museum Studio, a cool ... stopped working even though it had just worked minutes ago. So, she did it

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  project, however, although I intended not to work on anything digital or ... signed up for this class out of the blue, not really knowing what I was ... ’s physical site and work with the local community to build prototypes of their

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  , there was not much time to rest on the flight. I got right to work ... as any program I've done in practice. It worked. I went out there and ... --you're the best! Not too much time to celebrate though. I had a flight back

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  feasible?  there are other moments where i lose myself in work. lately i’ve noticed almost any kind of work will do - coding, writing, exercising ... moment and not care about other things. for the longest time i thought

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  cherry blossom trees bear not only flowers, but freedom. -- On the second ... never done this walk before, and I hate not knowing where I am going. My mom used to say that I’m directionless; not in life, but by foot. I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  too much work for not that much benefit. But I think I’m realizing that ... . Shush. At home my family will be working their way through Thanksgiving ... students at MIT, I’m not at home for this Thanksgiving. I won’t be eating my

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  journals and my cousin showed me a video of a driverless car he was working ... . I did, it worked, I came out to my entire grade in an impromptu speech ... struggle to make this equation work that I would lose sight of one of the

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  are central to the way MIT works. In the right environment (one ... and counting, and I’m not dead yet. Here are the sweet deets: The ... , because I was super busy during deconstruction and she did most of the work

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  seniors and juniors, so my sophomore friend and I did not get in. So I was ... class is not just happening to me. Sophomore fall is the most difficult ... work was extreme. The Monday of Thanksgiving break week we had 30% of our

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  that she had a paper to finish and would rather not play, so I ... House **A rigorous, theoretical version of intro E&M. ***I was not ... sat in a chair. We worked through one of the practice tests. I drew

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012