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• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  For the past year and a half I lived in Cambridge, worked full ... .[/annotation] I'll write about that experience more in depth in another blog, but ... should) have been spent doing homework and studying, but in reality, I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  Anne Liu and I spent January 7th through January 17th in India on a ... trip, we placed our faith in ad hoc planning. Anne and I left our hotel ... . Unfortunately, there was a car parked in it, and removing it would require that we

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  currently running around giving everyone chilly hugs. I’ve lived in Southern ... spent frolicking in Indiana. When I think fall, I think piles of crunchy ... rink. I used to take ice skating lessons in Indiana, but all I can

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  out of every 6 applicants. In one of the Oscar-nominated short films I ... administration's view on it? etc." I would characterize MIT overall as being a very ... , which I'm proud to be able to say was the first state in the Union to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  Saturday and bouncing out of bed. I love wearing headphones in a hipster ... , unfortunately, and the remaining slices are covered in Balsamic vinaigrette. I ... barbecue chicken pizza as well. I sign in, shove a bread roll in my mouth

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  not, however, the sort of living group I would tend to click with in ... whom I know here got deferred EA and then got in. Eventually, those of ... sort of behavior was typical. Now, I'm a little sheltered in this regard

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  armchairs and a big TV. This week, I learned that to be a great composer in ... Milton's 400th birthday: December 9, 2008. I was a junior in High School ... an apple in one hand and a copy of Paradise Lost in the other, and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  Arlington Gateway hotel in Virginia - and feeling overwhelming vertigo. I had ... of New House + McCormick. I grew up in Singapore and London, which have ... . I learned that there's a group in Arkansas, developing a glove for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  consistently as long as i'm still in the game. my strategy is more or less to ... in the afternoon: i type this quietly in the safety of my room, without ... , knowing that they would probably be a good ally. they accepted, and i know

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  in my place. So I applied to some fancy-dancy computer science ... stopped -- i have learned SO MUCH about real-world programming in the past ... the weather know it... i swear it jumped like 5 degrees celsius as soon

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  the day of the final review. I left several hours in the morning to draw ... . Panic. Panic. But I remembered a general lesson I learned in the past ... I wanted to post this a couple days before decisions came out but

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  their classes this semester, I thought I would show off how naked and ... nothing. In fact, I think this will be one of my busiest semesters so far. I ... expanding to fill its container. I am enrolled in 45 units, which is 3

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  hours of bliss in Photoshop, above. Shameless plug: I'll be selling prints ... with a friend." " In my moments of clarity I can ask myself what ... it straight. It's easy to forget to check in--I don't call my parents

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  Wow so …….... I’ve been MIA for a whiiile. In the past 2 months – which is an eternity in cyberspace (sorry ‚òπ), I: * Finished 1st year ... in all the sports championships I care about (or in the case of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  that it would be a bad way to get where I'm going in transportation, but ... students and faculty in various departments, and I've decided that my best ... want to make that my minor, with a major in management, but I'm going to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  from? After a little academic archaeology, this is what I found. In an ... meritocratic to its cultural core. In fact, I think if we tried to move towards ... . Kahlenberg said about why legacy admissions are bad. I personally would not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  immerses the user in a beautiful underwater story! I was the only extern ... . At some points, I literally had to repeat in my head “This isn’t real ... Management, and 3 in Unity Development. I was on the Unity team, and loved it

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  legs among both living and mechanical creatures, which I am printing in ... about, I would most likely fall to earth as well." --"So who knows if it ... Roger Ebert is my favorite film critic; I think he's got an honest

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I ... planner.mit.edu, I quickly noticed that my schedule would have a very low ... compounded when I have Intro Media Studies (green) in Building 1 and Poetry

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  about a month ago, in the sense that Petey and I penciled in a date, and ... itself. In the two days before the marathon, I made a Google Doc estimating ... drawstring bag for the day, which has in it an iPad, a battery pack, some

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021