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• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  reminder of how easy it is to pass a day without making the most of it. I ... . "I'm glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full ... substitute for nutrition more often than not. So how do we remember to step

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  parents, and potentially anyone who knows how to use a search engine ... Though I usually try to avoid being serious on the blogs, I've always felt truly honored to be an MIT admissions blogger, and by 'always' I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  realizing how much of a shitshow the movie was, we switched to Pitch Perfect ... closed the written question. I had no idea how to solve it. I went to the ... had a relatively rough high school career and I really wasn't sure how I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  a close friend. In this post, I'll describe how I made the decision to ... about how they would handle the fall, I decided to seriously consider ... also want to evaluate my choice based on how it will impact others and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  -renovation. so two years is a lot relative to how undergraduate culture propagates ... with holding up ec now. it worries me to think about how much work it ... initiatives, have put their focus on how to keep east campus afloat during

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  lot about how to make the next half of MIT feel better, and concluded ... part of it has been learning how to be an adult and take care of myself ... ” to go most days. Each time I did go I grumbled about how much of the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  having difficulty choosing a major was "How do you know you want to do all ... Obviously I don't have to be good at these things, or even know how to do them (I don't know how to CAD), I just simply...have to like them and find

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  and appreciation so, so much. I learned how to properly weightlift and ... , not shit myself. I think now I'm having to learn how to tackle other ... experience in Photoshop (thank you @ my old Tumblr for teaching me how to make

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  advisor: How do I know what to take this year? For starters, CJ has an ... informative and offers a lot of good information on how to search for classes ... out how to fall into the groove of MIT. The number one advice I have for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  forth between lab, eating lunch in 5 mins, barely making it to the dining ... morning. I went to bed at around 1 am last night (or I guess this morning ... someone like me, who sometimes finds ten hours of sleep to not be suffice

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  Although I do make active attempts to avoid goopiness and ... a woman who cries at telephone commercials, and I'm actively trying to ... my last Registration Day, when all MIT students visit their advisors to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  get a piece of e-mail that's accidentally been replied-to-all, I say to myself, "Wow, you're so dumb. How do you even, like, get dressed in the morning when you can't understand how e-mail works?" Heck, I'm almost ready

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  on how best to age, cut, and cook beef. Amazing dinner. After dinner ... to network and ask questions. There are keynote speakers at the ... hysterical). I got up at 4:30AM on Thursday to make it to the airport in time

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  . I have been in many workshops about how to support friends rather than how to support myself. A lot of these workshops make sexual assault ... natural pausing points to evaluate how you feel and whether you want to

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  . He teaches these classes. I may be able to one day learn how to write fiction from him! How exciting is it to learn writing from a favorite author ... . College changed me to be the person I always was. It also revealed just how

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  obituaries. I don’t really know how to narrativize it, but I imagine many ... -grade teacher told us all to “divide your page in half.” The other students made horizontal or vertical slashes. Feeling rebellious, and wanting to amuse myself

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  of a college experience, and I was also intensely familiar with how to ... according to plan. How did you manage the situation? Let’s say, for the sake ... managed to get an A on the final exam, taken later. I wrote about how I

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  Metropolis Makerspace! I learned how to 3D print and lasercut something for the ... were beautiful. What if I also learned how to make things that were ... enjoy? Later during East Campus’s REX fort construction, I learned how to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  are, what you want, and how you hope to get there. Now I realize the ... , consistent, and accurate we embody and how we can learn to work with our own ... MIT community — I remember how my heart lurched forward wanting this to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  purposefully how to on my own. I was always very reflective and sought out people ... decisions, to how organizations make decisions, and all the way to how it ... with the times it’s open, how it chooses its prices, why you seem to face

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018