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• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  ’s construction - and for the rest of my life, hopefully. I even subled the ... should have used to determine what I’m going to do for the rest of my life

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  respectable life requires working a respectable job while adhering to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  integral to daily life. “It’s funny”, Pelkins said when I interviewed him ... better way to live my life than to give back to my community,” he says, “it ... you, and the dream and excitement to use what you have to make life

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  . Danny: Well so are our actual conversations in real life. Allan: True

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  East Campus has a reputation. It’s known as the mysterious and “intense” dorm of people with no shoes and dyed hair. But, not everyone who settles in EC gets flaming…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  This post is dedicated to 2021s who aren’t sure if they can survive in a cook-for-yourself community. It could be helpful for parents as well. Note on Update: this post…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  , the body, and life itself. Course 20 itself is a pretty rare major. Most ... have little application to real life. An example of this would be finding ... a shelf life of 3 days. This creates for a very high impact paper, but

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  given their interactions in certain (also idealized) scenarios. Real life ... to read an article or paper about a real-life event related to industry ... restaurant or concert, can mean the difference between life and death to more

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  everything on my laptop (thank goodness, because my life depends on Google

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  freshman year actively avoiding thoughts of Real Life. Jobs, internships

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  can't have one, but your life will be easier with a PC, the reason being ... laptop with a good battery life. Take the listed battery life with a grain

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  life I’ll never get back) as part of a one month prep course through my ... Course on YouTube saved my life in AP Biology--I even watched a couple of ... real world” or the typical “oh, how sad, that’s just life”. You all work

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• 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

  

  drizzle. I didn’t dream of applying to MIT my whole life. I only figured ... significant challenges in my life up to that point than getting an A in math ... life was difficult then, and you earned them. It happens all the time

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  Note: This post will be updated at irregular intervals today, Saturday, August 30 whenever the words decide to magically appear on my Word processor. Let’s call it a “Time Experiment”…

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  IAP is a wonderful time here at MIT, where the month of January is transformed into a mix of adventures, innovation, and learning.  I am spending my IAP with my…

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  , but I can’t. The blogs try to capture snippets of MIT life, but the ... because they’re quirky, friendly, full of life, deeply in love with

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  My high school academic life was by no means a cruise through ... situations are cutting their way through life, but the problem this past week ... . Problems aren’t always fluid or predictable, neither in MIT nor in real life

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  I know this is delayed, but I never got to write an end-of-school-year beginning-of-summer post, and it feels like so much has happened since classes ended, but I’d like to…

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  Airport, and marginally expect my life to play out like a scene from Love

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  Michael Plasmeier, aka The Plaz, is a junior at MIT studying Course 6 (or EECS). His website – ThePlaz.com – also has a wiki, and on this wiki, he shares…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011