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• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  Olympiad the summer after ninth grade. It’s easy to forget how smart he is—we’ve known each other forever, and he is my best friend, and when we talk, I don’t feel out of my depth. Chris is starting his PhD in the fall

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Events

  This…Is…BLODGEBALL! Everything and anything you ever wanted to know about us.

  

  edu. Not going to lie, folks. Being an admissions blogger is the bomb ... best kind of fun. And so when Snively suggested that our annual beginning-of-the ... was describing). Here's for all you folks who've ever wondered what the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  2021 is two-thirds over. To celebrate the newly abandoned month, I play ... . I’m considering staying for a master’s degree. To decide is to walk ... noncommittal as I am right now, or perhaps this is the first time I’ve truly

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  ’t stressful, just the way MIT usually is. I met my best friends during ... prefrosh are trying to figure out the best way to spend that last summer before you come to MIT and get screwed over by the tsunami of work that is

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  -years-more-or-less-when-we-feel-like-it gathering of admissions folks from the "IvyPlus" schools, defined, for the ... the MIT context. Now, naturally (and earnestly) I think MIT has the best ... tactically for specific objectives. I manage the bloggers; Karyn oversees the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  The November Rule is the unspoken rule we have on campus that ... -brain freshman year me decided that it was completely okay for me to ignore the ... the reasoning behind it is crucial. as Nisha mentioned in her blog

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  There are no directions in Japan. The buildings are numbered, but in ... for days. I walked until the Japanese Ghost of Christmas Past walked up ... to ask directions, to the first person I saw in the midst of this

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  . For web.lab, which is an IAP class I said I was taking, we made a ... . The way it works is that the first week is a bunch of lectures, starting ... for feedback. Work on the website began in the middle of week 2. A

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  so we couldn’t use them Kristen is an actual course 2 and made the ... , which is too much of anything probably. We made the peach filling the night ... big brain idea of siphoning out the liquid using pvc tubing (this is how

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  I had all these entries planned for the next few days, but all of that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document to ... once while he was on the ground, just for good measure. I saved that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  MIT is not the only school with Splashes. It does have the biggest ... kids. The next afternoon, I taught a pulsar class for high school kids ... think right now" for each question. Questions like "what is disease and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  The other day, I skivved off studying for thermodynamics and instead ... , especially when no one is explaining it to the guys working alongside me. But ... . But then I was asking them to remove the back seat, saying I’d wait for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  , everything I learned here was new except for vectors. I dominated the first 3 ... telling you about my experiences. One of the things that gets me most is how ... . MIT took away all the things it wanted me for because of the crushing

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  Phone note I'm typing into, I now see that, at this point, the best option is ... Writing is difficult. It's the last day in July.* I find it very easy ... postponing for another 47 days of drawn-out anguish at the accumulating height

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  hoping for the best. Which is not that helpful, probably. Best Practices ... Directory Introduction Is product management right for me? The ... sure the stories flow smoothly. Best Practices for the Behavioral The

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  brimming with questions for the professor, Bruno Verdini. His advice is ... should study for an exam. Maybe that one more hour of studying is the ... , the so-called man behind the Big Dig. The Big Dig is one of the largest

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  Thanks to Petey and Kathleen for giving me the idea to blog about ... were “easy” ones: how do I register for classes? If I use the last of the ... things -- for the last couple years of high school, I stayed quite

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  everyone always come to you for help, expect the best from you, etc ... pretty well-known for the performing arts, and I was heavily involved in ... mercilessly for the rest of third grade. This tends to instill in people either

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  is remarkably unpopulated - peep the tiny city we stopped in for gas in ... reiterate: LA is not a city made for walking. like, in any sense ... the kitchen is stocked 24/7 with chobani, cereal, and coffee - the 3 Cs

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  in the wrong direction, I saw Random Hall for the first time. As I ... directed at the large projected screen behind her. Every few seconds, the ... community, primarily freshmen, to know them. Always on the lookout for free

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013