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• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  'm chilling -- and this chill, combined with the delightful chill of my IAP (and ... 't. My brain was secretly thinking something along the lines of "oh, well ... , to take up space in my life. I want it and love it for itself, not just

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  bad. Well, it really wasn’t. During my lunch break, I went to Walker, and three minutes later, I got my flu shot. And I was awed. The flu ... . One of my friends on the floor I live in stuck his sticker on his door

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  relate to my experiences as a wildly emotional gay boy who thinks too much ... for it…right? So I did. I messaged my friend who had a friend who wore ... I wasn’t. If you couldn’t tell by the fact that my first definition

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  Dear MIT Protofrosh, If I had a time machine, I’d travel to my ... field to love, Political Science, and thinking of my thesis experiment now ... find support for new ventures, and where I can combine my interests in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  learned to shove facts into my head, regurgitate it on a test a week later ... several pieces of paper. This really hurt my brain at first. It took awhile ... hours and pestered people for help.” I felt so proud of my (veritably not

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  what's going on both in my life and in MIT at general! (and one day I ... what my first year here was like. In the video I skipped explaining a few ... think I just enjoyed it more overall! Lastly, I had my CI-H which I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  weeks to see if you like it.” ... Oh my gosh.  ... free...Free personal ... wanted more in that moment than a continuous data stream documenting my ... compilation of a month's worth of tracking data on my sleeping variance

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  November 20, 2013. Precisely 23 days until my first application ... my life will never be the same.” The prospect sent me into shivers and ... ? Defining my senior year by the future of "college." I can’t tell my past

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  Washington, D.C. professionally produced my video. Through them, I learned that ... a nice stack of canned tuna and powdered mashed potatoes in my room ... . I set my own schedule. I don’t have to travel to eat (actually, I don

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  . I googled "how to write an ode" but then got distracted by one of my ... MIT Tunnels. Back then, it was tunnels with a capital "T" because to my ... 'm not complaining or anything. Just putting my own initial disillusionment

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  check out our projects. (Awkward selfie with my face and an equal size version of my face projected on the screen behind me.) It got crazy ... probably beneficial to my professional growth and ability to stay composed

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  Beethoven to Mahler Last semester, I took my first music class at MIT ... one of my physics classes. My friend Ben H. '14 was in a similarly ... composers is, in my mind, an abstract idea and not a human being. The idea of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  be available on MyMIT in January. On this report, you can provide us ... updates. Should I send in a whole new version of my application, or all ... , but try not to wait until the last minute! What happens if some of my

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  ) and it was close to Halloween: my birthday. My little sister poked her ... my towering intellect and spirit, and not the combination of bushy ... , at the elementary school where I volunteer on Tuesday afternoons. My

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  It's been a while since I introduced you to MIT (my way, of course ... about my UROP   ^_^ It all started back in March, when I began poking ... bioEE UROP - that is probably my ultimate field of study - but then

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  Israel was only the last piece of my IAP this year. I spent the first week ... in admissions (‘twas the season) and doing whatever my heart desired. I ... were really interesting (my subtle hints to get you to consider courses 1

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  , not-so-involved career. I got my start in the second half of senior year, when my high school staged its production of Guys and Dolls (this will be ... carved out a good niche for my artistic inclinations to speak from personal

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  So, as I mentioned in my previous entry, my GEL classes don't have p ... before about my role as a leader. Not convinced? Well, here's another ... the cheerers last year, and I ran around with a red "M" painted on my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  there are two days in my life that felt quite similar: September 11th ... perceive my surroundings and their significance. A year ago today, I felt a new kind of shock. I spent my morning and afternoon in lab at MIT

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  Travel] (^ one of my many talents -- surprise! And yet another something ... three midterm tests in three of my classes, and an essay due in my fourth ... that point, I'd already received most of my grades and was no longer

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009