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• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  too much, having too many interests, putting too much of myself into my clubs, my classes, my research. I could talk about it, but the important ... year, and all my competitions got cancelled, and I’m quarantining at home

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  elusive skill of patience – waiting for the bus, waiting on a friend at a ... waiting (not scrolling on my phone or talking to someone, but just existing ... true, but also if I leave my mind to its own devices, I often descend

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  friends when they’re only taking a reasonable and recommended amount of classes per semester. My entire time at MIT I've been fighting off this imposter syndrome feeling. I've tried to shift my focus from what grades I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  across the Pomona school district. My friend Jamilla, with whom I used to ... speaking to as many students as I could. I'm writing notes for my colleagues about my journey, and I thought I'd share some of them with you all to see

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  end of the night, some of my friends and I ventured over the Spring ... a pre-CPW post, and this is my CPW update, informing you all about how ... . In other news, like I mentioned in my last post, the theme for East

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  Hard to believe but my time at the institute is starting to wrap up ... sorts of projects. I, for better and worse, am not most people. My term ... lets take a peek into my day:   6.002x (Circuits and Electronics

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  of the Bob Silbeys here. He wasn't my mentor, adviser, friend or ... . My interaction with Prof. Silbey was in Spring 2010, when I took 20 ... my favorite professors I've had at MIT. He managed to take something

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  to blog. Here's a quick summary of my last two-and-a-bit weeks to prove ... bubble tea for my caffeine event (note: never hold a confusingly named event on the fifth floor). I only wish I'd had more time to spend at my

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  popular-my friends have gone to Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Japan and have ... and IAP, I did my best to take it easy. That’s the wonderful thing about ... exciting, good kind of way). Here’s what I’ve got in my final (!) semester at

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  hogging wifi and using the textplus app on my iTouch to wish my friends back ... -minute bus ticket purchase, and some serious luggage-lifting, I made my way ... ’ve been here with my mom and grandma; it’s absolutely gorgeous: The

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  experienced my first two college birthdays. Okay, I should clarify that too: *I ... friends. The important word to understand in that sentence is ‘celebrating ... belonged to Esther J. ’14, my roommate, who turned 18 last Friday. As her

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  Thanks to the carefree nature of my elementary and middle school ... accompanied by a frustrating mass of release forms. Regardless, it is my hope to now give you a virtual field trip of sorts - into my dorm: Mc

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  experience, gently tugging on the writer's (aka, my) natural tendency to share ... fingers of the writer's (aka, my) own limitations. Words, no matter how ... -meant sentences. Those translucent seconds into which I concentrate my love of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  My alarm went off at 5:30 am today...I am not now, nor have I ever been, a "morning person". When I was a child my mother used to start the ... . Unfortunately, I can't pull the blankets back over my head and go back to sleep

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  board with my foot, and minced up a baby mouse brain for papain digestion ... handful of times and woken up gnawing on my pillow. So, because this is a ... 've forgotten to change my pants during this short time period". One might even

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  . Should we do another!?" And that, my friends, is Jeremy. For even more ... to grad students, post-doctorates, and even professors - and in my ... Jeremy. Jeremy is my 18.03 TA, which in English means he's one of the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  I was using to put off doing my own problem sets) and do a little jigging of my own. Things were pretty crazy around here last night, especially for my friends living in the fraternities (most MIT fraternities and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  East Campus courtyard and I am left to decide what happened to my weekend ... ... but to my right (unmade bed), to my left (chemistry book), and behind me ... , I'll have a diploma in hand and some extra lines on my resume, and it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  take my healthy lifestyle to the next level and train for the Boston Marathon. Granted, the marathon isn't until April, but I have my work cut out ... walking 1.3 a big deal. As soon as I entered the store, a friendly

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  -- sometimes in a related field, sometimes a not at all related field. My friend ... . When your application pieces are processed, they will be posted on the My ... knows my research capabilities as well as what I'm like as a person far

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005