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• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  lot of optimism. I have a lot of optimism.In my first attempt at ... the data right in front of me. I could no longer say to my mom, "No ... spent in the previous month. And despite doing this for 8 months now, I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  (i.e., in class while my teachers were talking...) I started reading less around the time I started high school, when paying attention in ... with?) Part of my problem is that although in life, I'm generally a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  think one other reason that might not be as easy to discern is a change in ... acknowledge often enough in portrayals of addicts because it is extremely ... about this very hard for a few months, and then in january i read some

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  not, in fact, normal "What classes are you taking?" - Our Number System ... . In MIT speak, I'm a CMS/6-3 and this past semester I took 3.091, 21M.011, 18.01, and 8.01L. In non-MIT speak, I'm a double major in

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

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever ... again, I would spend hours locked away in a corner of the library staring ... living in a universe of Organic Chemistry. To the point where Orgo and real

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  reduction and sustainability. Student designers from MIT and other schools in ... , which are then modeled on our runway. Trashion was founded in 2011, is an ... teaches in STS.   Trashion Show 2015 Promo Video from MIT UA on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  since I started blogging. A year since robots in the FPOP and the free ... ’ve taken thus far. I spend four-and-half hours every week in the lab (7 ... you put a wall 0.6 meters in front of the robot, it will move 0.1 meter

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  I remember the first time I went to a market in my hometown. It was ... I’ve ever had to, an effect self-evident in me staying up late on several nights to finish aggravating p-sets, and in me having to think more

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  about MIT the instant I got my acceptance letter (deferred, got in regular ... 'd been accepted to (awesome engineering schools in NYC, Pittsburgh, and ... years in Houston and didn't stand one day in Boston, go figure). So, there

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  there were seven Apple laptops in the car. I switched to Mac right before ... last year. And yes, graduate students get an IAP; one of the students in ... . Trevor is a fantastic web designer with really good taste in music (whose

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  there has been in a while. I was outside writing this blog in Killian Court, but the sun was causing too much glare so i’m in the library right ... them up around campus, and from 2-3:30, we sang in Lobby 7.  [carousel

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  apron and ruminated. Hair salons in particular are very good for this type ... track playing quietly in the background, periodically interrupted by the ... , faded, green hair that was in dire need of a trim. My stylist asked me how

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

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  in the nature reserve and walked around a bit before the ride back to ... it. I haven’t been to Alewife in a while now, because I’ve been too ... ’ve tried in college. The number of MIT students I have met feels incredibly

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  two behind; forward forward lock forward, which, in my mind, is step ... , lifting my left, as my partner nudges me in front of him. i shuffle my feet ... forward, is that it’s a call with four steps. waltz music is in three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  "]wake up at 7am,[/annotation]and head down into the cramped gym in the ... person who would come as we were finishing. In the quiet of the building ... after my Spring semester in 2017, in the throes of depression, Chris sent

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  Four years ago, in October 2012, Lydia published a blog post titled ... . In the dorms at MIT, we work adjacent to each other like parallel play ... out. Not with their laptops in front of them, not doing a little work in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  something, feel free to ask additional questions in the comments or email cpw ... load, especially if you don’t need to bring a sleeping bag. Space in ... now there's a winter storm advisory and I'm shivering in my winter

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  the same day as the dreaded first 8.01 exam in addition to a 3.091 quiz, and an 18.02 exam on Friday. In the midst of spending the day studying ... -3. I have a three-hour time frame in which I can grab and eat lunch

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  /husband/estranged son-in-law/daughter/stepson). Everyone seems to know one Halloween baby ... back to my room, then to the kitchen, where people were waiting in the ... . 5 in G) then listened to the piece. A suite is a collection of dances

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

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  [Editor's note in 2017: This post contains outdated contact ... Naviance/Docufide, the MIT cover sheet would need to be scanned in and then ... teacher letters and school forms (such as transcripts) in three ways, listed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012