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• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  , the only emotion I feel is guilt for not having done enough. Most days I ... looking forward to this trip for years, I spent the day mentally managing my ... bench swapping my ankle brace for my aircast ankle boot - the sound of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  attention for hours on end.  That being said, my favorite Hermitcrafter is ... getting struck by lightning (I hope), putting my goals for the year into a ... actually cooking for myself. But I really want to crack down on the ever

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  knows the deal - MIT is a constant whirlwind of PSETs, exams, lectures, and the occasional puppy labs. For several of us, there’s so much more ... throughout the semester - I’ll spare you the details, for now anyways. Instead

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  activities. Think about what the people you asked for recommendation letters ... those same qualities. Jot down the first answers that come to mind for ... . This is the hardest part and the least fun, so do it fast. Last semester

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  ="Functional programming, of course"]the best programming paradigm[/annotation], but I could ... Wikipedia without even opening the website! And the best part? They’re great ... Siri imitation[/annotation]. They have a knack for finding Waldo and the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  will get to the place that is right for you, not just because of merit ... keeps me up at night. The Political Science department here is excellent ... “right” for the field. And I would have overlooked the Institute that was

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

     The MORAL OF THE STORY is, check out our CPW events! Stop by if for no ... . Whatever. It ain't the same. For those of you who don't remember me: hi ... imagined that that it would be the place for me. If you're a prefrosh and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  ) for the fall semester's FLX, or Field Leadership Exercise. Over the past ... , which is where we really get to practice our skills. LLAB is run by the juniors, seniors, and fifth-years, and is designed to teach the freshmen and

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  ’m showing y’all was written for MIT’s, “Describe the world you come from” prompt. This was actually the last essay that I wrote for MIT’s application ... end, it wound up being my favorite essay out of all the ones I wrote for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  , on the other hand, is much more rigid, depending on where you are. For ... For the past year and a half I lived in Cambridge, worked full ... Ramen in Harvard Square? Sure! Lying in the grass on Killian Court for an

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  hundreds of wonderful and intelligent female students but also the best ... is probably the least fascinating thing I have done at MIT. I've gone ... above transpired in the span of 72 hours! I've been here for roughly 580

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  is probably not worth ten billion dollars, so it would be better for me ...  was the rational decision, right? But I knew that I hadn't accounted for ... 't seem correct either. This sort of thinking is the kind I've only

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Where I Call Home california california cambridge!

  

  only child to the best school her money could afford. She moved back in ... his siblings, though, were all musicians. His sister was the best at singing, my uncle at guitar, and my dad, of course, was the best at piano

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  questions me: what would you say is the primary source of joy in your life ... research. the third one is fulfilling obligations. they all contribute to my ... that’s an oversimplification. the point is that my three components all

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  -Year Program students. This is an opportunity for us to tell the staff what we ... -nighters for fun than for schoolwork in the past four years. In chronological ... this flag with Martha ’12 for the Cross Country and Track teams 3

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 2 recipes for people tryna Little Chef it up

  

  avocado toast, which are my go-to's. Avocado is one of the best foods ever ... more could you ask for??? Here's what I've been eating in the past few ... for mustard since I didn't have any and...it worked, surprisingly. The

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  getting on a skateboard again for the next six years. It wasn’t until a ... skater and led through the process of picking out the different parts for ... , our coaches kept telling us to bend our knees for the same reasons

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  to give them 19 years on the chain gang just for adding another letter ... trivial event and I will hold it against him for the rest of his life ... with me forever. But, then again, it was also the best of times this week

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  Techfair is here! Held right before classes start in the Spring semester, Techfair is a student run career fair that showcases some of the ... hours. Techfair isn't just any career fair -- you dress for the job you

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  post series* For as long as I can remember I have wanted to travel the ... where I would be staying I slept for 11 hours (Jetlag is no joke). I woke ... the country I was seeing for the first time; the history became all too

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018