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• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  For the past year and a half I lived in Cambridge, worked full-time, and did all sorts of [annotation note="including but not limited to ... from 9 other roommates and mailing out the rent checks, making the switch

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  other things on your mind, and so much has happened between now and April ... came to a close, I packed up all of my belongings in under 3 hrs, and ... be honing my laying-motionless-on-a-sofa and stuffing

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  , and being so insistent on communicating in Italian that it posed a ... Italian word that I directed at waitstaff, cashiers, and train operators ... total confidence or none at all, they’d switch to English immediately and

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  Just like that, freshman year has come and gone. It’s weird to think ... lot about my feelings and about experiencing MIT for the first time ... year. I only noticed it now, but my class selections for the fall and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  assigned around 13 students, and I quite liked my crew. Throughout the week, I saw people open up more to each other and really talk. Like petals ... less as a “how to do MIT” and more like a “here is a hodgepodge of advice

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  whatsoever; it is one of the strongest flow states you have ever entered and ... every iap at mit. i took the class in 2020 and was an instructor in 2022 ... examples, homework assignments, and lecture slides from web.lab 2021

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  graduation. I know what it’s like to move to an entirely new city and state. I ... playing in the background and all. Every time I tried writing this post, my fingers would freeze up and suddenly the activation energy required to start

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  the well-practiced, the shouts of people reached my ears. “Come and see ... while holding a bottle of water and having it spill all over me (last ... impressionable moments come from other sources, and I want to share a few of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  catching a cold), and it’s usually in a state of disarray, since I often can ... get my haircut at an actual salon, since she thinks that if I bleach and ... apron and ruminated. Hair salons in particular are very good for this type

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  receive an essay that states, "...and that's why Harvard is my dream school ... -serious folk... back away slowly and no one will get hurt. As most of you know, I've been on an AWARD TOUR WITH MOHAMMED MY MAN. And everywhere I go

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  's next? And Regular Action applicants may be now starting their ... hit the northeastern United States this past weekend, we are extending ... . If you wish, you may now fill out the conducted interview form and we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  i’ve been in a perpetual state of writer's block recently (i.e. the ... because that’s when my laundry is supposed to be done and just continuously ... typing class where i first learned the joys of nitrotype and home row

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  our mental states and general satisfaction with life and similarly ... spoilers for the movie arrival (and by extension, the novella story ... a relationship rather than the thing itself. and of course, almost

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  freewill and a deterministic universe. It was just one of those things people ... food, information sessions and friendship cultivation that lies buried under a mound of problem sets and midterms. However, each time I'm thought

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  President Sally Kornbluth’s inauguration party this past weekend – go and give ... scorching hot, and a few of us even pulled out our umbrellas to shield ... exhibits (giant sloth/crocodile skeletons, giant fish, and giant water lilies

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  2016. Today Claire has achieved her dream and is goin to share this ... deadline of 4 weeks and an MIT undergrad in the midst of classes, clubs, internships, and a generally messy existence, then things go haywire and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  , and BTS. I main Ashe in Overwatch. I love chemistry and biology. I have a fear of heights and needles. I am smart and capable and ready for ... week. BTS owns me and could hit me with their tour bus and I'd say thank

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  ’ve compiled some of my thoughts on the portfolio process and collected some ... student community made up of some of the world’s most intelligent and creative individuals interested in an education centered on science and

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  forgive me! If it makes it any better, this is a very long and fairly thorough post and also writing it required grappling with my existential dread about the passing of time and a lurking fear that I am wasting my

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  application. In the span of a lifetime, two years is really not that long. And ... week. The mini prep and plate replications I have to do in lab tomorrow ... justice to one of the most beautiful productions of theatre. Of writing and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018