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• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  I'm gaining money rather than losing it. Lastly, I also wanted to get ... This New Year, I want to try a resolution that would mandate how I ... starting over. No delays to tomorrow, next week, or next month. No more "I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  get to keep a blog. No joke. Part of the requirements are to write ... plenty interested. I've even managed to get myself tangled up in potential ... ." That's SO WEIRD. You don't get to say things like that unless you're an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  get to skip the line of people attempting the test to sign up for a ... ever fall into the Charles River that borders MIT campus, you can swim to one of the shores. The river is 200 yards wide, so you would need to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  , we decided to get the hell out of there. Soon after this, we were told ... tunnels to get from Building 54 to the main academic buildings without going ... getting ready to go outside and play in the snow with Sarah when the 223

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  about overscheduling; they just wanted to know how to get into MIT. Now ... Press about our Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones. According to Google ... , from rural Saskatchewan to southern Mississippi. Most prominently, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  get them to you in time? A: If you did not select your scores to be directly sent to MIT, and are worried they will not get here in time, we will ... when trying to get in touch with them, as it may take them several days

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  , enjoying life independent of the work load; and three, getting to know ... !) - published a letter to the editor from Folkers E. Rojas on February 28th that I ... Folkers' paragraph that begins "I started to paint again." Without further

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  die. Each of us gets to choose.” Whether we like it or not, you and I ... chose to do the work. We wake up in the morning and before we even get out ... at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Written Post Oh man my handwriting is atrocious

  

  not get to draw Beth R.F. '18 and Crystal W. '18 properly. Here they are ... like her little doodles, and I still get extremely happy whenever I find

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Want a bike? Get a fairly decent bike at the Next House bike auction

  

  I'm done with the MCAT! Well, at least for now (we'll see once I get ... 3rd week of school, but you can usually get something ridable for ... can't wait until then, I suggest going to http

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  then actually get to spend a lot of time and resources working on it, and ... Have you ever wanted to feel happier and thought, hey, maybe if I eat ... "][/video] This is also probably the most terrifying 3 minutes of my life to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  -love way of saying, "You've only been there a week; you'll get used to it, and it will get better," which was, as it turns out, what I needed to hear. It takes time to get used to the reward system of my workplace

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• 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…

  

  dreaming of schools where they didn't have to worry about getting wedgie ... room to get a drink and trip over freshmen psetting together in my ... advice blog (written by someone who went to all her Tuesday classes with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  these commercials, I really don't know what to tell you except turn on the ... , however, is about making the switch from high school to college. If I had to make a shortlist of the changes that I made or had to make when

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  companies, Sam says, is that they can aim to get 10% better every week. Short iteration cycles allow them to get feedback from customers and improve their ... goal of colonizing Mars.  You can't get to Mars without making a lot of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  exposed to other ways of getting around, I'm thinking about what I want to ... to go running. Usually when I spend four days without exercise, I get ... love seeing the city closer up, getting to know all the roads

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  I did not graduate on time

  

  fortunate to get a D. In fact, I hadn’t been that happy about a grade since my ... than I ever admitted. But I did, undeniably, fail to graduate on time ... dropping all classes where it was clear I would get a B or lower. How did I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  , I need to supplement my diet with human food. So I took a picture of ... blog post, and here it is. This came out as an experiment to figure out ... for most of his lunches and dinners, for example. Come to think of it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  “unlike any other” place that is MIT, we still had to get back home to the ... full day on Saturday while surveying the yard in anticipation, I said to my partner, Janyce, “Come on, we’re driving in to Cambridge tonight to

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  's Ring Premiere to get an idea of what I'm talking about. There are some ... misfortune to be around me the last few weeks. All I do is complain about the ... crazy lately. Plus, at home, I never have to walk 15 minutes to work

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007