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• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  . For the past couple of years, I've used an app called Sleep Cycle to ... up early for school, took a nap after classes because I was too tired to work since I'd stayed up late, vibed for a few hours, then had to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  things. last year, i'd forget about nearly every prepset for [annotation ... opposed to last year. i look forward to cooking for myself every day instead ... worried about what my work ethic would be like after, erm, PNR for two

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  . Situations change. If you don’t have the energy for it, that’s fine. You ... , because you’ll forget otherwise. In fact, just schedule time for things that ... feature for your UROP by tomorrow. Cut the things that don’t matter and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 2 recipes for people tryna Little Chef it up

  

  more could you ask for??? Here's what I've been eating in the past few ... for mustard since I didn't have any and...it worked, surprisingly. The ... tastiest dishes you can make for the amount of effort you put in. All it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  watched the flames grow, it struck me for the first time that I really wasn ... satisfaction as I watched the evidence of my old self reduce to ashes. For a ... deep of the Charles River. We enjoyed the view of Boston for awhile, then

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  from the corners they’ve been sitting in for years. “Okay let’s donate ... character, and then post it on a fan page. But no, we wrote this essay for no one, but us. We did it for *art*.  In eighth grade, we had an

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  early this morning”.   It’s really difficult for me to process that ... year MIT solicits nominations for Institute awards, one of which is the ... open doors for me to pop in when I'm around in Stata. He never seemed in

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  around. Yay for knee dislocations! To give you a little context, I ... shared stories of broken toes and bicycle catastrophes, I thanked God for ... therapy. I had survived. Untouched. Now it’s impossible for someone to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  interns wait for someone to pick us up and take us to a welcome and ... . setting up a dev environment for software development can be tricky: it ... "]we[/annotation] go out for lunch, and we the interns get treated to ramen and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  -long exam my room had to evacuate. Great news for me! I had just gotten back ... body for the first 30 minutes of the exam. I read the questions and ... expressing sympathy for the students involved (without me even identifying

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  facilitator for Interphase EDGE 2018. I could not be more excited. As some of ... summer, and I think the opportunity to come back as a TA for Calculus, as ... organization, the Office of Minority Education, that has done so much for me

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  customer representative for an hour and a half to keep the second leg of the ... residence for the next three weeks, is a small suburban city about 30 minutes ... built for getting lost, with streets lazily labelled, alleys and bridges

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  're sitting on for this view. It was an exciting day for my Fitbit. My team and ... Moscow (for free!) for a 3-day hackathon, plus 7 days to adjust to the time ... ’t sleep for a consecutive 36 hours.   Our first attempt on the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  Marathon, for the first time since 2013, when the Tsarnaev brothers killed ... handle than training. When training for something, I can set and focus on a ... turns out, for the rest of your life, too.     I'm not sure

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  Maseeh Hall has been my home here at MIT for the last four years ... lived in the same dorm for four years but I have lived on the same floor for four years and in the exact same room for three. Despite the fact

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  was interesting enough to share and discuss. See here: (sorry for the ... in the mainstream, so for a department at one of the world’s most ... gendered words to refer to people for a very very long time, and it’s just

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  Antiquarian Book Fair, and flyers for future Boston adventures. Then we headed to the Church of the Covenant for a Fiction Keynote. One of my favorite ... lead the Keynote. Messud is famous for her New York Times-bestselling The

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  On the floor where I lived last year, Elaine L. '18 was known for ... mourning the loss of the Stata produce market for the past few months ... Foods as being too expensive for college students. However, you can shop

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  . MIT decisions came out yesterday, and for those who spent all day waiting (and anyone else going through college admissions), this is for you ... ’t help. I’d always thought that I was the perfect fit for MIT, being the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching

  

  emails. For all of you trying to get your Regular Action application in by ... ; For RA students What is the application deadline? The deadline is ... interview for the near future, you are all set. Don’t worry if your

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 27, 2015