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• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  was the only light reflecting over my anxious face, and no one dared ... 's kind of assuring to think of it like this. It's a yes or a no. And I ... sent it over so it could be edited and within 5 minutes I got a hearty

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Food We Made! a photo dump of non-aesthetic pictures

  

  In high school, we liked cooking and baking. We also liked ... to try to take nice pictures of the process and final result. But ... had the time for it. And hence haven't blogged any food related content

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  three days ago, after i finished squeezing all my summer clothes and ... stuffed backpack, and a very stuffed guitar case, i hopped on a 6 hour ... (nicer than expected) Airbnb, i spent an afternoon and the next day

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  December. It was torturous, and the clock seemed to tick too fast and too ... spans now from our phones and need constant stimulation. Which perhaps is ... terrible happened to them and they’re in the hospital and…you get the point

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  Continued reflections on love at the Institvte (and really just love ... trials and tribulations with dating, which includes the many times I have felt like I was in love and similarly the many times that I was wrong

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  same week, and in some cases the same day, and I felt overwhelmed beyond belief. Now, as Spring Break comes to close, and the month of April has ... March, a presentation that accounted for 30% of my grade, and what felt

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  the buildings are numbered, and at first glance, the ordering of the numbers seems unintuitive. Buildings 3 and 4 should be next to each other ... and 4. This is one of the small things I love about MIT: its building

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  objects onto the real world. And it's pretty freaking cool. I've been following augmented reality and virtual reality closely since the beginning of ... Earth floating in the room, spinning it around and stopping it to look at

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  .33 - Research and Communication in Economics a sort of pre-thesis class, where we ... stay focused and not let work from this class pile up, because the work is heavily concentrated in two assignments (a small project and a final

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  on February 28th, the 18,239th and final piece was placed into the ... took Simmons 40 days and 5 hours. I am incredibly grateful for the help and support that so many people provided in order to make this the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  It's Career Fair season, and that means hundreds of companies are ... , and oddly-formatted emails.  I've been reading a lot of job descriptions lately, and I've noticed that recruiters regularly provide "success

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  and Chris Peterson here -- On the Conservation of Frosh by Rachel D. ‘16 ... friendly upperclassman will help you compare and contrast. Even if you know ... friend. Ask the names and experiences of older students and peers. No

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  MIT, this is a problem I wrestled for a while.  And I've learned that it ... weather - only inadequate clothing." Sure, cold weather is cold (duh), and ... learn to love winter (I do!) and its beauty: ^ I visited Ouray, CO over

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  It was 2AM. After a heart-warming and tummy-filling Thanksgiving break with my parents and my favorite sister (she’s kind of my only sister ... , the room empty, and my roommates still gone. The glare of my laptop

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  years ago. MIT has its times of incredible stress and it's during those ... I struggled with the most. When you're in classes all day and doing psets all night it becomes much too easy to skip meals and rely on fast

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  late at night after watching a couple episodes of my favorite TV show and curling up with a cup of tea, I sometimes like to just sit around and ... like GEL, you’ll do reflections a lot, and it might take a while to

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  , and a rhetorical question. If I asked you what the meaning of life was, you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say ... scientific, social, and economic approaches to addressing them, keeping

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  awesome people I'm meeting (and delicious food I'm eating) next week. But ... respect, understand, and integrate the importance of social production and ... , and especially on Facebook, across a variety of groups maintained not by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  , you have my permission to put down your AP study books and take a look ... a bridge out of paper, paper clips, and pencils under tight time ... while building a paper bridge on time, within their materials budget, and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  officers here, I'm known as the girl who draws things during class and has a ... of being back and Matt McGann and Chris Peterson have already called me "quirky and special" - translation: "why'd we hired this creeper?"). But

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010