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• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  anywhere. And I think there's a certain kind of satisfaction you can get from ... . Besides, it gives me a lot of insight into my personal data: when I fall ... me whether I was a morning person or a night owl in high school, I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  covering everything from Kanye’s visit to Harvard’s design school and a birth on a D.C. metro platform to wild architectural proposals and all the ... I’m writing this post after recently finishing a year-long stint at

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  , let's do it!"), and a lot of creativity from people who enjoy doing very ... from a fellow classmate about this interesting club, the Lecture Series ... is the culture. It's hard to describe, but there's a peculiar mix of

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  pipes hanging from the ceiling, when my son looked over with a smile and ... by Donald Guy’s Mom Almost exactly one year ago, on a Junior ... supportive of my children’s right to choose, so I bought him a “

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  the loose ends from the summer that I left dangling, now woven into a ... picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to this I'd have definitely had a freak-out or two before going to my only

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  Read Read Read Read Read Read Write Such is the life of a HASS major ... idea, there is a way to fail. There are readings that illuminate ... entirely by chance. I’m certainly not a Philosophy (Course 24) major, but so

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  from material circumstances: someone with a lot of privilege might not ... bolt of lightning from the blue. It grows tentatively from a small seed ... for it to do so. In a few days, the Class of 2012 will graduate from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  getting an education from MIT is like drinking from a firehose ... Technology Initiatives; they run a lot of different programs from Global ... prof) and my advisor from last year (a poli sci prof)! This semester, we

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  this year (aside from Mystery Hunt), I took a couple breaks from reading ... School. Charm School is a long-standing tradition here. Students and community members take classes on such silly but important topics as Giving a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  from the blogs, I also felt tired of writing about myself. I wrote a lot ... are a lot of website templates out there that you can pull from github ... captioning every image... this takes a shockingly long time, would not

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  intelligence.. etc. I switched from course 5 (Chemistry) to course 9 by getting a ... in general, though, is that it suffers from a lack of variety - no ... I wrote this in pieces - from Cambridge to San Diego, the train from

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

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  . At a school like MIT, people are from around the globe, so I know I am ... . Thursday, on September 14th, I got a text from my sister saying the plane had ... Coming from South Florida, MIT is far away... specifically, 1427

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  perks I was looking forward to if I got accepted. The first was a Brass ... being able to write down "[email protected]." It's a right of passage, a treat you only get as a student, and there's something

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  The Classes I’m Taking This Semester [in order from least-to-most edible] 🪀🚑🔥📚♟️

  

  back a lot and sort of isolated myself from new people. This semester, I ... you build a solution to a problem in another country. Some examples from ... for a few years and has had a few iterations, so we're not starting from

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  submit a transcript from the other school as well. BTW, I don't have space ... It's been a long time since my last Q&A post - sorry for the delay ... ? It's always a good idea to contact the coach for your sport if you are

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  , and I'm two classes and one thesis away from a second degree in writing ... like a writing major from MIT in addition to my 3A would allow me to do ... . One thing I really like about MIT is that there is a HASS (humanities

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  shivering despite the toasty warm weather, I woke up from a 20-hour nap and ... Hey all! It's been a while. I've had a busy last month: 0. I said ... solving puzzles using a novel game mechanic, although IMHO, Braid is way

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  experience. And a good story. My flight from London landed in the evening, and ... Two weeks ago, I arrived back at MIT. This is the view from my new ... the summer is a beautiful thing. No psets. No exams. No pressure to cram

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  . If so, he would become the first player from M.I.T., a Division III ... ., where he drew recruiting attention from Division II universities and a ... section and saw a giant article on the MIT men's basketball team, and guard

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  campus, taking a break from the workload of MIT to hang out with friends ... Boston. A picture from our girls' day out! We had brunch at an adorable ... from sharpees to slipstitching to hot glue to produce a resemblance of a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016