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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  mentality with regard to work?" is much more open to different strokes for ... 't work for me. I do consider myself to be a "self-starter" (you almost have ... Project Interphase or to try out for a fall sport, and of course there are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  /disliked/bookmarked/etc. For those that don't know about Pandora yet, it's basically free online ... more time to do some blogging! Here is a random smattering of things I've been wanting to blog about. THE SHARPE BROTHERS A while back, on the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  to dedicate to psets, studying for exams, and pursuing extracurricular ... -register (at Harvard or Wellesley for example) or if you want to take graduate ... fraternity, I somehow find time to write for this blog, I frequently

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  , arbitrarily graded online tutorial program. You get points for getting the ... really grumpy. But I had a movie screening to take care of. I write for ... . It was pretty ugly. Checkout the iCal for this past week. [Calculus

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Concert / The View

  

  LOT. Just as you would wait at Disneyland for two and a half hours to ride on Space Mountain, I wait for 8-12 hours to get front row at a ... was pleasantly surprised to be around 4th row in GA pit for 5sos. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  classes. I don't want to fork over cash for an electric scooter or a bike, neither do I want to pay for a Bluebike ride for an ~8 minute walk every ... at Maseeh people for living so close to campus when you have to walk

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  spring as the reward for having to live through senior fall. I already knew ... . Hours every week went into: preparing for career fairs, going to career fairs, searching for positions to apply to, actually applying to these

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  that'd be the last time we'd see each other in-person, for a long time. i ... . i was given the chance, in april 2021, to spend the first half of 2022 ... decision, and talking to people, and declined in the end, because i "didn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  early to volunteer. I froze a handful of meals to save for later. Rating ... through the mist, often pausing to look for the next trail sign: a spray ... .14 breakfast: for the first time this week, I cooked a meal! It was supposed to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  for most of my life i was very prone to envy. part of that was ... , and so on - but it also extended to non-academic endeavors as well. for ... can be a good way for you to meet new people, having acquaintances with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A, Vol. II A sort-of guest post

  

  project in case you couldn't come to CPW and see it for yourself), but I ... ... aren't you supposed to be in school?" which is totally a legitimate ... weekend. Today incidentally also happened to be my brother's birthday AND

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in EAsT camPUS A few of the basic things to know.

  

  everything we do to YouTube. We're kinda too cool for that. But we also have a ... type? 1. You can learn how to cook. What better way to learn how than to live in a place where you can have a big, awesome kitchen with personal

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • July 31, 2009
• Blog / Events

  ZBT Soiree A part with many desserts and friends... fortunately, I left before the karaoke part. (9…

  

  (See Bryan's entry for more pictures of and information about the event.) For dinner, I went to India Quality, in Kenmore Square ... Tau (ZBT) for their dessert soiree. I'm not usually the shortest person

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  for frosh and upperclassmen to start hooking up left and right, but I ... colleges that are similar to this one. PLEASURE stands for "Peers Leading ... have to buy condoms. Make sure you go when they're actually open (I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  ’t productive. It seems that opportunities to pursue personal projects, talk to ... point to watching movies even if you forget about the details, and for the ... to leave them. For most decisions, the specific details of the pros

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  ?? It's really difficult for me to answer this question, partially because ... spectrum for Harvard, and the other appeared to be on the much harder side ... fun of my lab partner Nina and I for having to work while they all had a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  for the metaphor, life isn’t exactly analogous to a marathon, where all you have to do is reach the end and rest your legs for a while. For an ... side of the road for free water in paper cups then getting right back to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  school go to for pursuing pre-med. It's difficult to find a physics ... algorithm would pick one of the choices for their schedule. It refused to give ... pig’s feet for some reason. Even though it was run online because of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  !. Actually, to be fair, these were also for Freshman Dinner (alluded to by ... Porter Room Win as much as $500 for your floor, the most prize money ever ... ! Apple Bake has been a fall culinary tradition in Burton-Conner for the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  /do at school. I try hard as an EC to be a strong advocate for each person ... First of all, I want to say that I do 90% Skype interviews, and 10% in-person ... admission department to reach out to kids in areas where an in-person

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013