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• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  person, it can either force you to be much more productive, or much less ... . (This is an awkward topic for me personally because my dad would beat all ... advice blog (written by someone who went to all her Tuesday classes with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  as an AeroAstro is amazing in a lot of respects. 9AM classes for ... (like I did for most of last year) and I feel like I've found an amazing ... /Build/Fly team, training all our delightful new members and gearing up to fly (and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  very last person to speak. I concluded the neuroscience group ... , debate just wasn’t quite the right environment for me to perform in, but it was the perfect environment for me to train in. I think that, slowly, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  classes, they count for little to nothing in your final course grade. You ... notorious for taking some people more than 10+ hours to do). If you ... I don't think it's a good idea to be on 72 units, for the sake of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  reactions, though it's results vary from person to person. your body will ... march is a rough month. you are lost, not only in a pile of things to see and things to do, but probably also in a pile of emotions you can

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 15, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  to have tiny Santas). The recipe says to bake for an hour, but in ... you are for whatever reason someday required to secretly make them and ... Career Fair is a magical time: in addition to the opportunity and the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Breakfast in Paris, Lunch in Geneva, Dinner in Milan Hop on the train and check out some sights leaving France, traversing Switzerland, and entering…

  

  I set out from Paris' Gare de Lyon to continue my journey using France's famous TGV (train

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  personalities, from the bubbly and social to the more introspective. That's fairly ... Requirements, to dine on your soul for a little while.) If MIT is going to work for me, I'll have to sew together the pieces of a student's life and my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  for the space ship to explore the Solar system in 30 years if it is ... and quirky people you will ever know- yes. For learning how to live a ... -Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  of recommendation and proceed to your personal statement, where you ... , business), get a “real” job, take a year off to figure things out, work for a ... ’m happy to report that this can also be a very exciting time for college

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.

  

  thanks to my prefrosh George for being really independent and finding his way home at 6 AM without my help, to Kristin R for her wonderful (if slightly awkward) compliment at Meet The Bloggers, to "Joooliyah" for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  interviews has changed (though Stu's advice on how to prepare for it remains ... , they should limit themselves to nagging you to do it, and not do it for ... , test scores, etc. They want to learn about you as a person. This is your

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  decided.  Asia’s reason for applying to WISE was simple: “it was free”. We ... to see for herself that there was always something going on at MIT ... could only say hi and chat for a bit. She thought to herself, ‘how busy

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  , and I knew he was the perfect person to ask for help. I told him about ... get back into running. I’ve been on break for too long, and it’s time to ... , [annotation note="or rather, I want to WANT to work for it"]I want to work for

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  science and media. But, in waiting for the summer session to start, I ... , today I met the person who painted the sign over the door to the ... from fleece blankets (’59) to huge brass rat paperweights (’89, for their

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  waiting for me. There was never any question about whether I would apply to ... I was probably one of the youngest people ever to read the blogs. I ... newspaper. Sam and Mitra and Mollie, the earliest bloggers, were MIT to me

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  built Waterscope, a microscope that uses water instead of glass for ... Mateo, we’re at booth I22. If you’re around, feel free to stop by! It ... recovered in a year) More on this later, maybe. If you want to sign my cast

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  . ;-) And to the person who suggested the RSS feed for my blog - fantastic ... Creativity - thanks for your post and I am so sorry to hear about the student at your ... stopped arguing about trivial things, folks started to look for the good in

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  same applied for 7.013 in the spring. Alright - to be honest - it isn ... knowing how to swim. For the math requirement, please refer to This ... important for you to get your Calc GIR out of the way as soon as possible

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  wheels on them so you can roll them out into the lobby for visitors to see ... Insta page for everyone to see. [carousel image1="77025" image2 ... 't know what to put that day, but I was surprised by how much personality

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022