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• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  more difficult to actually find the time to learn how to integrate sec^3 ... something all of the time. One thing that's vital to learn how to do is to ... super worried about adjusting to classes and being able to keep up with

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  alone how to investigate inflation in brane world models. I think that ... physicists worldwide just won $3 million each for outstanding contributions to ... . Classic Big Bang theory, this professor likes to say, “says nothing about what

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  in the sun for the last two days, and when I got on it to ride to work this morning the grip literally melted to my bike gloves. 2) Vacations ... ) Blogger Application 2010 All current MIT undergraduates are welcome to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  need to learn how to cook, and I still have new music to discover, and I ... time-management skills, which is why it took so long for me to finally ... 's what led me to see life the way I do: The world isn't just something you

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/14/17, at 6:28PM ET

  

  to evil Kermit. It doesn't matter how many times you click that refresh ... I've stopped watching this baby lion trying to roar long enough to ... online next Thursday, 12/14/17, at Tau Time (i.e. 6:28PM ET). To check

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  question of how to continue making art in the real world, once I graduate. I feel like I learned a lot about how to live this summer. I am so much closer to having the answers regarding what I want to do, and how I want

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  improvement is part of how you can jump to the next step of adulthood. I think a ... objective: "Get to the top of this wall, in any way possible". This flavor of activity reminds me of the mental motions to solving a math or programming

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  like my thoughts can be pretty weird. Maybe people mostly come to these blogs to see what fun stuff the bloggers are doing; maybe they don't want to hear the ramblings from the inside of my head, maybe they won't find

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  plans for how she'd apply her programming skills to her physics studies. I ... Cross-registration is one of the most amazing features to exist at ... . I wrote this blog to capture the memories I made last summer with my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  kept piling on, or how i thought giving myself large lists of things to ... life more stressful, or how even as i tried to discover new kinds of ... meeting stem people. i don’t have an opinion on how correct my friend

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  is a thing, I asked Christina to write up a brief history of how this ... Vote to help them register to vote, be reminded about local elections, and even be mailed an absentee ballot to their dorm. TurboVote is a classic

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  how I might be able to take it out to the ocean, perhaps letting it sit ... any excuses, I've been looking for ways to recharge myself and face the ... up last weekend, when my family and I took a trip to Block Island, a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  showcases, meme tags. In the past eight months, I've learned how to manage my time better (thanks, iCalendar) and how to use a mop (apparently you ... along some numbered axis. I still like to quantify, but I'm learning how

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  , and can easily spend an hour watching videos about how not to procrastinate. Which isn’t to say that the videos aren’t effective or useful ... video creators sharing various approaches to being more productive, having

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  more you learn how to balance this exploration with your priorities ... is that “first years need to learn how to be independent at MIT”, but I ... believe what they mean is that first years should learn how to strike the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  into caring, to make them worry over how their businesses would crumble ... ’s my job to step in whenever someone complains of the heat and say, “You ... don’t seem to like where the heat is at already — for the past three

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  I've blogged before about how, a few years ago, Jeremy Rubin '16 managed to raise $500k in funding and a ton of faculty sponsors to distribute $100 in Bitcoin to every MIT undergraduate as his final project for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  forcing myself to learn to write longform. Poetry taught me how to capture ... felt that I had stories to tell and no means with which to tell them ... storytelling ability I felt I lacked. As I began writing plays, I struggled to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Update Submit your MIT Part 1 and 2 by Jan 3, 2013 at 11:59pm EST

  

  ). More details to come on how to fill out the Midyear Report in the next ... As I mentioned in my earlier post, I wanted to follow up with more ... downtime on December 31st, it seems that most students were able to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 3, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  In years past, we've asked folks to let us know in August if they wish to be considered for an admissions blogging position, and we've made ... process, we must also be careful to provide a broad spectrum of the MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006