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• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  you can enjoy that!). No one can move from living in a house to on their ... honestly something I have not yet mastered hahaha. When I was in high school I was like, “College students have like 3 classes a day that start in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  one. in mit, and undergrad in general i guess, you spend your time ... everything, i'd end up doing nothing. in practice, i enjoyed having lots to do ... with me after work, and it's not like people have dorm rooms i can crash

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  only 1 mm in length as an adult - so NO, these are not earthworms! i can ... hypothesis. In a sense, I guess I can say that I truly felt like a real ... I can't help falling in love with the excitement of obtaining a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  the place. I found out how kind people can be, though - the strangers in ... manageable, because I had seen much of the material in high school. One of my ... the year, I can describe what happened pretty confidently. Here are some

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

   did manage to fit it in my schedule. I didn’t really read the description that ... projects in the makerspace, and were [annotation note="“I didn’t know you ... cool. I don’t think I particularly want to work in any kind of wet lab

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  getting in :) Beyond that, I'm afraid I can't be of much help. If you ... participating that i can write down in this 'list' where my passion, for what i ... high school senior asked: I am applying to some schools in the US for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  myself when I wake up in the morning because I can hardly believe that I ... Reformed Church (though I was technically born in Detroit, the not ... . I’m from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Furniture Capital of the World and

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  getting to meet a lot of you, but it was exhausting- I lived in the Burton ... often, is "I don't judge, I just take pictures." In this case, I feel like ... a time when I'm not sleep-deprived and can argue with her without

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Love Potion No. 9 roses are #FF0000violets are #0000FF

  

  In celebration of today's "holiday," I decided it would make sense to ... N4 O2 (sorry, I can't get subscripts to work) Well, I'm off to ... Logs of the Muses, but I'm sure to think of something I missed in this

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  Signs that I would someday Do Science can be traced to when I was 6 ... rediscovered a diary that I kept in first grade. My favorite entry reads ... Observatory. There, I learned that Real Science can also be ugly, although

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Awesome Autobiography in rage comic form

  

  a rage comic. Maybe you will too. And if so, you can join me in a ... Last weekend I posted an entry on my birthday, sharing some things I have learned now in my advanced age. On the same day, in a very different

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  The ‘Game’ Supporting inter-collegiate relations.

  

  So last week, I made a trek out to the school down the street for The Game. This was my first time in all four years that I'd been at MIT that ... thing, but I think we decided that the more clever competition was in the

  • by Bryan
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  The first speech I ever gave in my life was to the 1000 of you who ... concert. Honestly, freshman year, I wasn't particularly interested in the ... , Cara L. and I woke up at 6:30 am on a Saturday to get in line for 10 am

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  psets! I have homework in my HASS classes, dude! I assumed that taking two ... . Trust me. 21M.303: Writing in Tonal Forms I -- Write the first 8 bars of ... a "less memorable moment" in the second four bars. Well, I've got the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You’re Still Our No.1 :) less than 2 days left!

  

  before spring break. I'm super stressed. I don't know what is going on in ... QUOTE(S): "If I have kids, I'm going to name the first one "Control" and the second one "Experiment."" -an embarrassed '12 "Can anyone help

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 12, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Help Wanted Calling all artists! Design Mitra's new banner and get profiled in the blog

  

  you readers are so ingenious, I'm asking for your help in designing my ... the artist whose design I choose, *and* send you some MIT memorabilia in ... somewhere, you can send it as an attachment. If no one sends me designs, I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  that I was a little loud and a little awkward in high school. I spent ... sported a brass-colored bob that I can now admit was ill-suited to my skin ... , but like, I see that you are Asian, but where exactly in Asia?” I could

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  One time in Boston, my roommates and I were studying outside near ... the strength to be graceful. I kept taking classes in freshman and ... foam was all in disarray. If I were doing cool hard stuff, the way it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  stark contrast, I was in marching band and on the quiz team in high school ... elementary/middle school, I would take a book, sit in an unoccupied section ... . Basically, I think we're going to have to sit in the back in 5.60 tomorrow so

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  ?! I'm sitting here, in my room, at my desk. It's nearly 11:30 pm on a ... and made me wish that every class I was enrolled in graded me for my ... least I know how to do laundry... 8. Watch every episode of Arthur in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010