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• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  other than maybe keeping a list of to-dos in Google Keep, or my ... fun things to do, getting ahead on your classes - or taking ... up the motivation to work on my UROP - or work on anything hard, for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  this stuff up. Now, just as many of you are getting to take a vacation ... , and we'll get to do a whole bunch of fun Boston things. Then, I'll head ... 'd like to address and of course there's lots to say leading up to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  steam, and i felt zero motivation to work on any of the puzzles. this ... can kinda see the pattern. on one hand… puzzles! this is a part of ... to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  suggested events to attend and tips on making the most of your CPW experience ... Counselor on-hand or schedule a 20-minute appointment to speak one-on-one with ... :30 am A panel of current MIT parents will be on hand to share their

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  MIT Logo on it. Next to my birthday cake were two robotic arms (the ones that Iron Man talks to in his workshop), which I assembled (from ... of my soon-to-be home: Simmons. Let's talk a bit about this lovable

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  which are deeply hurtful to students of color, some of which borders on ... discourse is complicit with the state of things as they are today!  On the other hand, there is this deafening silence on the part of non

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  you feel better. On the small scales of day-to-day survival that we ... my labmates and I rented a motorboat to go on Lake Como, which was less ... hundreds of LEDs inside which turned on and off individually. Using this

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  credit card, then, is to get something called a credit score, which is a number related to your credit history, which is something that people like ... , which leads to a credit score, which leads to getting an apartment. Or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  on that in a minute) you're bound to find a group of people with whom ... success. Thankfully the MIT Housing system is designed to give everyone the best chance at being put where they're happiest. Of course no system is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  self than my high school self. It's hard to tell if this is because of ... fall, and of 2019; I regret the dates I was too tired to go on, the team ... record of my life, I think I'll be able to write better and write more

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  Design. The concept of 2.00b, or Toy Product Design, is fairly simple ... steps in real time.  So I learned a bit of Processing (which is really ... interest in design: “His Christmas gift to me would be one day of his time

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  changed. MIT is a school. Not a reactor. Not a speedway to prestige or ... reflection of MIT windows not who I want to see? Is who I was before not good ... ? Don't you know the sky is the same here? Don't you see it? The base of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... version of physics or math you take.  All that matters is how much you want ... be.  You could be too.  Or you could be something else.  It's up to you

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  ="aligncenter" width="600"] (to scale)[/caption] The Bay Area is huge, which makes ... average. The delay's not due to waiting or a lack of options, but due to ... inconvenient. The headway's on the scale of half-hours or hours. If your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  TLDR of this is to find community on campus because it will help keep you ... go on, a lot of these things will change and so it's always best to ... informative and offers a lot of good information on how to search for classes

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  on a game and analyze it akin to what one of our author’s does). If you ... building on and/or challenging work. Think of meaningful engagement in a ... baseline of five references that have to come from resources on that specific

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  extracurriculars, or always seemed to have some interesting trivia on hand. Being the ... is simply no feasible amount of studying that I could do to catch up ... is variations on “Allison you’re so smart though” or “but there are so

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  understanding, which is a fact I attribute to the MIT's culture. On the one hand ... students know how frustrating it is to be sick or hosed or generally ... regardless of how I avoided the plague for so long, the fact of the matter is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  another year on our quest to make the world better. (Lunch: Mass Ave food ... us head over to The Miracle of Science to decompress for a bit. MIT is ... admit to give her final stamp of approval. Depending on a variety of

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  the past. A bunch of people in our hall told me to get the shot. It ... . One of my friends on the floor I live in stuck his sticker on his door ... three thousands. He reminded all of us to get our flu shots after the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019