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• Blog / Challenges

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  . Being happy, to a degree, is part of your health--in particular your ... to my room and feel like there was a sinkhole in my stomach. It was ... felt like I was carrying a lot of stuff at once. It was so ironically in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my ... freshman you, preserving five of those lessons in a blog post that the world ... ’t work, or is inefficient. Maybe you spend a lot of time doing problems you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  demons on depression

  

  can draw a banana. In all respects, I can act like someone who is ... used the name to drive the demon out. The process is a whole story in ... visualize something, kind of see a picture in their head vividly, which can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  "]highway.[/annotation] I grew up in Nashville, TN, a driving city, but I somehow avoided ... take a break from the constant movement of recruitment travel and sit in ... the local sights. So here is a sample of my adventures with Flat Tim

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  , like it has of mine. And it is wonderful to have a nutritional oasis in ... I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in Central Square, since 2013. I love living here in a way that I never thought

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  last four years <333 11. Take a class during IAP - yup, in Spain too ... . :) 38. Participate in a UROP - did you know something like 80%+ of ... . Take a class in at least 10 different departments - 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  you have a pretty good understanding of what is going on in general and ... each pixel? There is such a joy in eyeballing where things should be ... contemplate a side-career as a picture book author, which is perfectly suited

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  bed of a pickup truck, climb Mount Hua in China, and explore the ... may seem. To the left is a representative picture from Sophomore Year ... , Alpha Phi Omega, I was interested in and involved in a lot of activities

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  , we are living in a society where it is becoming increasingly more ... . Presented with a hypothetical situation in which 18-year-old Elizabeth and 22 ... faced with presenting a defense of all the ways I had changed in the last

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  opportunity is really a blessing in disguise. The hard thing is, the blessing ... - "College is a business. MIT admissions do not determine your success in life ... believe that wherever you find yourself in the fall is a place you can make

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... has a giant banner in the lobby with a collection of trophies on a table ... worse" vibes, there was unmistakably a tone of exhaustion and anxiety in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  't getting an A in this class. WHY? Your work is not good enough, and here are ... one week and a year since the 2022s got in or didn't; two years and a ... a good college and proved all the haters wrong! but mine was more like

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ) software is ubiquitous these days in mechanical engineering courses, a huge ... PST   The actual prototype, on the other hand, is in a minor ... ;The quick hack is to add a complete Arduino, which has a power regulator, in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... everyone thinks this is a niche spot, but half of campus has worked here. fun ... on, so I'm not sure how reliable of a spot it is anymore. last year, it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  , which is exactly what it sounds: a ten-day long larp. These happen in IAP ... for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a ... 2008 and in 2009. In fact, that 2009 post is from Paul B. '11, one of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  -HW which is a writing-intensive class. I went about choosing a CI-HW in an ... paper. Gabrielle Union’s is a lot more educative in the feminine side of ... , but where I come from, the closest you get to snow is shredded ice in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  extremely clear, '28th best high school violinist in South Dakota' is not a ... /them pronouns." Why is this important? Why say all this? In a pre ... usually the only Asian student in the classroom, and that was just one in a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  . There is also a persistent decrease in purple and green and a sharp drop ... the trash. In Gmail, there is a gear button in top right corner. Click ... excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  work like that. Truth is, I did just fine. I got A's in 8.022 and 18 ... success of a semester is not measured in grades alone. Some people might say ... throw in a couple of pictures. Since that is my job. These are some of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  make up for a lack of maintainers. This is where SIPB comes in. As ... wouldn't win a science fair. When I went to a party in SF this summer ... whether to create the website in Perl or Python. There's a bit of discussion

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023