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• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  yourself - at least it did for me.    Probably like most of my peers ... making decisions. Because at the end of the day, you aren’t alone. Yes, I ... Last week I started classes at MIT. A simple 7-part sentence that

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  . Of course, I usually open youtube at times of great procrastination ... perfectionists, at least a little bit. A quick survey of my friends suggested that ... I have long been a fan of the corner of the internet known as

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  . (The first part of our day that made it a happy day wasn’t at MIT, but it's part of our ~MIT experience~ so we’re including it anyways) 1. We had ... make it at least 1 minute (!!!!). This made both of us super exited

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  to stay on top of my work.” How I look at it now is “I have made a ... ) resulted in a score of -313, but at least it returned something! Baby steps ... describing my sophomore year right now. This was me at the beginning of the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  leading a village of Vikings. It's good to be back at school--see you all ... ," taught by the inimitable Prof. Julie Shah. In aerospace (and lots of other places) lots of people place their trust in software--software that flies

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  , and I envision swarms of anxious seniors staying up at night over one ... MIT is not about the challenges of problem sets. It’s about a ... clubs, jobs, and, most importantly, around people. The fog of existence

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  one of the coolest project classes at MIT. I'll be sure to make a post ... 'm currently acting EIC of Technique, the yearbook and design club at MIT. Each ... /Chris Perry) It's pretty much felt that way since the beginning of this

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  , that's pretty much the concept behind much of the learning at MIT: Mens ... ' pastime here at MIT.So if you were never a big fan of science before, you ... crowd of people filing through a set of double doors. You are flanked by

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  employment of my high school friend Ryan at Doc Holliday's. 3. Every Friday ... threw a dinner party for a bunch of people Friday, including Sam's Mom ... -cheddar biscuits, and "suite potatoe" pie. We had lots of fun and cultured

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ..and Here We Go Again! [by Ken Haggerty '11] ARTalk is back!

  

  tiring place. There are lots of P-sets and lots of work to do. Which is why ... -related that goes on at MIT, from building large-format cameras to LARPing (for ... ARTalk lets us share these more fun-filled moments with the rest of you

  • by ARTalk
  • February 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  my boyfriend's door is pretty good at attracting the ladies. Here ... fogey of an iPhone that still runs on Edge is faster than Chris's 3G iPhone at opening his door every single time. Other things it beats Chris

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time and change

  

  , Kentucky, at my mom's house. I'll be staying here through the end of the APO ... until all of my grades were in, and I'm still waiting for two of them (out of five). But I'm less nervous about my grades this term than I have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  -school themed party of all time. No questions will be taken at this time ... of this. Planning fall living arrangements: Living at home is a mixed ... This is the second part of a two-part series about being an MIT

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  that were at MIT, and the slightly more pressing issue of getting around ... years of inactivity. (Two out of two residents at Next House agree: it ... are at MIT. Even if you don't have a general feeling of IHTFP at a given

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  the cover, the pad of post-it's I carry with me at all times in case I ... been struggling to find time for it. At the beginning of every semester I ... slowly. I'll work for it a couple of weeks at a time, usually in between

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  before the last first day of my time here at MIT. To put that in less ... into a ball now and get at least a few hours of sleep. That’s better than ... my brain full of knowledge by 10:05am. Unfortunately, what I ought to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  an “A” at the end of the semester, a grade that was necessary if I ... questions at me that tried to navigate the frenzied tangle of details my ... and stared at the physics problem set. My mind felt far out of a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  different interesting events happening at all hours of the day that I want to ... ... but I've been really hosed these past 2 weeks. -Freeze- For those of you ... floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  Coming off of a state-of-mind-altering weekend in Maine with people from the dorm, I knew a full Pre-Thanksgiving week of MIT won’t be pretty ... You know what’s the best part about going to 3.091 [Chem.] at 11 in the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  [/caption] With all of the things I have done at MIT, I’m most known for my role in ... . Try new things. Meet new people. But at the end of the day, do not ... This year, Jeremy, Nikki, and I were in charge of the Admitted

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024