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• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  found myself really wanting to put the title of "student" aside for a ... , we all trust and look out for each other! :) Yeah, I sometimes miss ... Hello, gentle readers! For those of you who don't know me, I've been

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Today’s Mailing Day For me this is a huge thing. You guys are my first MIT class, which…

  

  Waited until midnight so I could post on the 11th officially (EST, anyway) - we'll be mailing in less than 24 hours. Wow. For me this is a ... emotional about it - overwhelmed for the admits and devastated for the denied

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  depleted for several months. There's a lot of reasons, professional and ... ,[/annotation] that there is a limit to that is rough. But it's also important. In my ... , drinking too much caffeine for too long, and had a nasty, weeks-long mystery

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  given a monthly allowance from my parents that was plenty for groceries ... $50 for Uber, for a grand total of $638 off. I learned that stuff adds ... 't use. Yoga mat, untouched for a year. Lipstick that's been around… for a

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  thought there’d be more. So one of my jobs is being a tour guide for the ... % participate in a UROP every year. 35:20 It’s Building 76. 36:11 Frank Gehry ... around MIT and take a video of myself staying stuff I guess. I’m surprised

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  can scramble the puzzles for me. I can do it for a minute or for hours ... cubing scene. Our club hasn’t been active for a hot minute,[annotation note ... world record for fastest solve time by a robot. Yes, the cube is scattered

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  do fun stuff because I believe it's important to make time for fun ... MIT, where I unpacked and braced myself for a week of orientation ... do justice to how otherwordly it is. For a day, I was a princess

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  design for a spring musical along with a designer's statement? Or should I ... second semester? Is that an open space for an elective?" In a typical year ... . ------------------------------------- Amanda wrote, "For a visual art submission, do samples of work have to ocme

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  could have a contest, how much cultural enrichment can you get for free in ... time and find a nice, good, clear picture of yourself for your ID, you ... you several times a day for the next four years). So there you have it

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  20 Things I Learned In 2020 from a course 20 who is in her 20s

  

  logistical burden of genetically-modified crops for a large chunk of the world ... *full disclosure: this post was mainly written for the title* We ... . Enough said. There is a huge community of local mappers who chart out

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  picture for you - FPOPs are a great opportunity for you to do things outside ... involves taking 3-4 classes in a certain subject. For example, I plan on ... have for your freshman year. All MIT students must complete a total of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  it’s a nice treat for the summer. The thing is, when you put everything ... for a while. You keep turning the food processor on, and then the fruit ... Caleb is a rising sophomore at MIT. He is currently studying Computer

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  writing for me, I can't force myself to write something within a given ... ? You only have room for a couple of activities, some may have to be ... to college is as meaningful for you as it was for me. A big part of the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  we couldn't have asked for a better location." The "Deliver!" station ... About 20,000 visitors took a peek at MIT during last Saturday ... , you have my permission to put down your AP study books and take a look

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks ... way.") MIT is not really a great place for grade-grubbers or the easily ... 't work for me. I do consider myself to be a "self-starter" (you almost have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  weeks? That's inexcusable for a freshman blogger! So I will have to make ... dream of passing. There really is a strong work ethic here. For the most ... do nothing but 18.022 for the test on Tuesday!" "Wait, there's a chem

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  .tumblr.com if you’re interested), and raised over $11,100 for Juvenile Diabetes ... student bloggers on this site, ‘normal’ for MIT becomes a confusing concept ... , and necessary, to get away for short breaks. But four months is a long

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  -off for an A might be 90%, or 70%, or lower, or higher, depending on the ... don’t feel like there is a right choice. For example, practice exams ... are a range of positions for different levels of effort. You could get a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A ... still apply to MIT for Early and/or Regular Action? A: On Nov 30th, Quest

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  Wonder’s “Visions” for the third time. It’s the perfect soundtrack. 11 ... by a carefully selected playlist. I look forward to the commute for ... , we discuss the pilot challenge for assessment competencies. It’s a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015