Search

Search Results

• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  engaging in a behavior to get an external reward or to avoid punishment, and ... used Coursera a lot in high school to take various Data Science ... :) Week 1: Introduction There wasn't much in this section, to be honest. The

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  outline that might be colored in one day. It is even more wild to consider ... . I'm going to need all the luck I can get. ... have to wear red daily to ward off bad luck. Somebody else asked me today

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  ’m building back to playing for long periods of time, because my foot gets ... also continues. I hope that all the work I’ve put in will continue to pay ... learned that if something is taken from me, I will do my very best to get it

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  to be picture-perfect copies of an in-person experience only lets ... exhilarating and utterly terrifying days I’ve had in a long time. Especially ... like 1+1 is starting to seem like a challenge. Day 1 of September rang

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  'll stick to it for long enough to run a half-marathon in late summer ... change in focus. I'm hoping to at least submit it for publication, if not ... started journaling again in earnest – yet. I used to journal a lot, writing

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  In my dorm, East Campus, residents are allowed to paint the door to ... could get painting, so I resolved to paint the tree over spring break ... 't get started until winter break. My zeroth step was to clean my door

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  've also known this friend to be pretty honest with me, and in the past, he ... self-knowledge extends to domains besides romance. In fact, it permeates ... 's not even to say that signaling is inherently wrong. In this situation

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  favorites below. Failure to follow directions: This one never gets old.  I ... applicants to find inventive new ways to complete the application both in ways we did not intend and in ways entirely contrary to our explicit

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  I possibly can. It felt like a maze that was impossible to get lost in ... to Italy to do some light research and travelling, stayed in a castle ... . It was one of the most interesting classes I’ve ever had, getting to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  adventures, people with whom to get into trouble and then out of it -- was ... didn't have the maturity to see these changes in others; the MIT I first ... before you can begin to fill it in. If you are new to these pages or to MIT

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  live in my room in east campus, but i'm trying to spend more time in et ... promys, this math summer camp i went to in high school. it reminds me of ... thing in the us, but it feels like a Real Thing now that i'm going to rent

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  to shit; in the beginning, I'd created a beautiful cherry blossom theme ... random shit to keep track of, but honestly, I had so much going on in high ... work. Most people know how to use Sheets, anyway. Plus, it's in your

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... 2028. Getting to “meet” so many capable, compassionate students through ... comments on this blog post to concentrate conversation in the open threads

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  I’m still learning in college is how to spend my limited time and ... Team is like and my thought process in deciding to join. So without ... blown. Making rockets?? To go to space???? In college?????? Insane. I had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  importantly, though, when you land on these squares, you also get to pick up a ... ,000, even $50,000, equivalent to the payday salary of a “computer designer” in ... value of their memories later in life. It’s led me to incredible

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  that we weren’t smart enough for/didn’t have enough time to cover in 6 ... , except now we get to use FPGAs that are more than 10x as powerful as the ... -grown cucumbers to lecturers sometimes). Overall, I’m having a great time in this

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  essays, splaying my life story to strangers in interviews, and thinking about abstract concepts like "fit" and "where I really want to go". In ... listening to someone read a slideshow in the background. It turns cramming

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  since 2019 due to the pandemic. DTYD is traditionally held in Burton ... ) wanted to celebrate their 21st birthdays and decided to indulge in a party ... place in Hamilton House, the place where the Bombers were exiled to when

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  Orientation, when I decided on a whim to get a Harvard library card, which is ... wanted to get a library card, came with me and we both got our cards fresh ... is for getting students to go to Harvard's sports events. We had to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  came in to walk us through CNC machining, and another guest lecturer showed us CAD modeling. I came in to this class expecting to have a good ... base of the lamp in wood, I knew I wanted the body to be metal. My first

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022