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• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  to get a question in edgewise. TAs also look to avoid these OH and they ... gives you a few silent hours to have personal help and you find a group of ... students in course 18! Life becomes a lot easier when you learn to ask for

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  exhilarating and utterly terrifying days I’ve had in a long time. Especially ... like 1+1 is starting to seem like a challenge. Day 1 of September rang in a new milestone for me. It was the first day of[annotation note

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  November, I particularly struggled to find motivation. It's odd; a break from ... to a small but significant sense of normalcy. Now, in honor of the ... pervasive struggles during the fall had to do with finding motivation. It wasn

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  't really on either of our minds. And we were lucky enough to be in a position ... semester with only a few weeks left to find something to do before the summer ... : cover letter, resume, submit. We applied to a lot of things, but in the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  some questions. So they threw in a generic thank you to the people at ... indentify with her more and to find it hard to fault her that without being a ... then proceeded to get no credit for the whole thing because [fill in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  important to the health of the club that we had a change in leadership. The ... Sarah A. ‘18 (who lives down the hall from me in New House 4) to an aerial ... ’t want to run in the hall because who does that, but then also you feel

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  members of the Class of 2011 are deferring to spend a year in Israel, others ... , perhaps visiting your favorite childhood haunts in a last bid to say goodbye ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  grad dorms are pretty easy for me to forget. Participate in a UROP… or ... the C League (Leagues go from A to C, in decreasing difficulty), so for ... there before. To be fair, we have had like 3 tame winters in a row, and I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  . [annotation note="I got distracted for a full 20 minutes while trying to find ... that to which it was accustomed...–is always lived (in a certain fashion ... supposed to take is less than the actual number of units, although it’s a bit

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  in this day and age and make a living for ourselves. It's difficult to ... money and means to do it, but you're in a box. You have enough affluence ... musical innovation, but also in his ability to continue to stay relevant and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  Else Fails, UROP." Good news--I did find things to do. I applied for a ... interviews (30 interviews in the span of a week and a half can be rough, as is ... : cooking up a few messy storms in the kitchen, simultaneously organizing

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  . Basically, the book is about a bunch of strangers coming together to live in an apartment, only to find that they're all related at the end to a ... the heirs that the race is on to claim his treasure, and leaves behind a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program

  

  As a pre-frosh, one thing I really appreciated before coming to MIT ... that I continue to interact with and get support from on a daily basis ... it would be like. So with that, I wanted to put together a little recap

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 25, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  course you'll find cool people in other places too, but enough of them to ... aren't really looking for a precise answer; they're just trying to ... to consider the factors I would need to put numbers to, in order to

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we ... 't remember why I wanted to be a mailman, but I guess it just seemed like a fun job at the time. During primary school, I remember wanting to be a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  kid, not as a teenager, not even ironically in college.When I tell people that, they look at me shocked, jaw to the floor like a scream mask.In ... door-to-door didn’t make much sense when “the next door” was half a mile

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  year of calibration for me in many ways, beyond just adjusting to a ... on average), thanks to in person 9am classes/meetings. I eat a decent ... Hi I’m Audrey, a new face in this bloggerverse! As the illustration

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  shouldn’t be able to get into a top school too. So in 10th grade, MIT ... American community on campus. I was surprised to find a sizable and vibrant ... home cooked meals while you're living in a dorm! When I went to college

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  interested in, you can find a lot of people doing things around it. For me ... try to add it to your bag, but with everything, in a short sighted way ... On time and noise I've been meaning to write a post recently about

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  culture here on campus. All in all, I just wanted to end with a message to ... As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is ... a strange idea. No one ever wants to be average. Society says that we

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011