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• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  sometimes not. 18. Being afraid to ask for help is a very major handicap. 19 ... comfortable enough to actually fall asleep. A fifteen-minute nap in Hayden can give me enough alertness to get me through the rest of my day... plus it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Before MIT goes APE, I learn how to eat dumplings FAST. ...or at least learn how to morph into a dumpling eating machine.

  

  footage...but it needs to be edited. So get ready for an entry filled month ... I should be studying for my 1.00 and 3.091 exams right now...but I ... show... * Please excuse my lack of acting skills :P Credits to Travis

  • by Celena C. '12
  • March 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  For many people, the idea of "what do I want to be when I grow up" is ... , president, etc.), but as the time comes for us to truly decide what we are ... you want to do for, potentially, the rest of your life. Even here at MIT

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  the floor, asking for people to celebrate her last night as a humanities ... program I was applying to was looking for people who were passionate about ... for an essay topic, you probably do. You just have to remember that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  snip snip liberating the shoulder one free t-shirt at a time

  

  default to one of these shirts. Anyways, as I was unpacking my clothes for ... Dear blog readers,  I have something to confess. I, Veronica P, am an addict. No matter how hard I try to fight it, I get this

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  me to do interviews for my first season as an EC (I mean, like, inside ... one more to bring you. She doesn’t actually have a name, and she ... .0. When I got engaged to her dad in Killian Court the summer after senior

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  Vagina Monologues. For the week following the show, I attempted to put into ... fundraising ideas, meet the rest of the cast, and then strip to lingerie for a ... snowing (which seems to be the norm for Saturdays in Boston this winter), so

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully prepared to entrust my productivity to a flaky Wi-Fi connection. Once I got ... me a lot to think about. I'm certainly thankful for the opportunity to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Events

  This…Is…BLODGEBALL! Everything and anything you ever wanted to know about us.

  

  + Dodgeball = Blodgeball (credit to Emad). And far be it for me to deny an ... everything you've been dying to ask our head honcho to elizabizzle at mit dot edu. Not going to lie, folks. Being an admissions blogger is the bomb

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  enough for them. Next thing you know, they’ll be wanting to go back to ... ultimate reason for existence?' To which YISUN replied, 'Self ... you don’t have any good ideas for what to blog about, try harder to see

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  scholarships for everything from exceptional academic merit to female computer science majors to left-handed people. Try Googling for "scholarships", and ... the ROTC program - for many students, this is a great way to make MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  close to being on campus as I’ll get for a while now, so I’m enjoying the ... introverted, and my social bandwidth is limited, even more so when it comes to ... face-to-face interactions in the hallways and classrooms. Obviously, this

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  With Orientation set to begin for the new MIT freshmen this weekend ... Landers for being accepted to MIT," said Project STEEM director Kerri O ... well. They both seem to have a genuine hunger for math and science that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was ... Midwest. So for four-ish days my girlfriend and I went to visit my cousin ... country's primary language for various reasons, but still have to navigate

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  RSI for this coming summer, where he hopes to continue the math research ... Two weeks ago I flew to Pittsburgh, PA, to attend the Intel ... ISEF, here is a description from the Society for Science and the Public

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  SMASH stands for Students At MIT Allied for Student Health. I am on ... people go through rough times and directing students to the proper resources at MIT Medical and on campus to get the help students may need

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster. Waste hours for fun, while still knowing that after, one still has just as

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  've done a lot of work for as part of my UROP. But it's good to get a formal ... semester is what I came to MIT for - to learn a bunch of really awesome ... of the place"]I REALLY wanted to work for[/annotation], and I was

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  astronomy professor for permission to deliver a 20-minute public talk on ... use the same procedure to prepare for all of my talks / classes. First ... and commit it to memory. This is for a couple of reasons. First, you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  double rainbow I took this summer for you to see yourself! I know I ... and needed to be shared, I took a video for all you MIT blog readers out ... actually started to thunderstorm a little across the river... fortunately for

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012