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• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  in your first year at MIT isn't how to integrate that particularly hairy trig integral, or how to predict the products of that incredibly complex organic chemistry reaction. It's how to ask for help. Help in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  can just add their answers to the game you're working on. So have at it ... , largely consisting of doing nothing, making random trips to Steak 'N Shake ... right there with year-ago-me. Yay, you now know where you're going to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  grandparents' flat was torn down to make more room for roads. I've gone to school ... essay I had lying around. I want to assure you, this is how I felt best to ... Where to begin? Well, in order to understand me, what drives me

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  As one of my “Treat. Yo. Self.” presents for my birthday, I got 3 ... . Well, at least for train routes. Due to the whole bussing deal, I got to ... I would ever see or even want to see for that matter. I saw the leaves

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  see how that applies. But it IS possible to balance it all, and in fact ... same things, you can focus on the new stuff you have to make time for. 2 ... make sure it's working for you. If it isn't don't be afraid to try

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  live in Cambridge, MA, how do I come to terms with the fact that I will ... weather; for me, it was either really cold from head to toe or very warm up ... to watch out for rainstorms in the spring (or any time, for that matter

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  I'm currently sitting in the SeaTac airport, waiting for my flight back to Boston that's been delayed for ~2 hours. One part of me is ... the deep thoughts limit for this post, and I'm ready to read a couple of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  program for teens who want to get into MIT right after middle school. The ... the harder subjects for the senior-year projects when we get to use real ... Since its founding in 1861, MIT has been a special place for

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  willing to work with you. If you need to work out a flexible solution for ... Student Street. Follow the parade to a New Orleans Jam session for the MIT ... fantastic venue for New Orleans musicians to practice their livelihood; live

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  with how well she was able to hold my attention with math content ... talk about it for that long– I just need to know that the conversational ... forced them to do a math competition for extra credit, or maybe they just

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship writing for CityLab, then part of The Atlantic), moved to New Mexico to be ... explaining how it helps to complete certain larger patterns.” Then three

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2016 Ring Delivery! MY RING IS SO PRETTY!

  

  picture with Harry! Thanks to Will R. '16 for taking this picture! Here is ... Last night, MIT sophomores dressed in black-tie attire flocked to the beautiful State Room in Boston to receive their glorious Brass Rats! Michael

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  March, a presentation that accounted for 30% of my grade, and what felt ... , but for the first time, I truly was scared I was going to royally mess ... pushing myself to spend countless hours studying for a test that truth be

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  I was going to save this post for whenever my summer job had given me enough witty, engaging stories to constitute an entire entry, but in light of some less-than-important recent events, I decided to put up a short

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I have a lot of work to do (as has been the case for, quite honestly, the ... to look for it.

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  people had to do all of those things for you you know how in ‘avatar ... friend, and they asked me how i’d want to resolve this discrepancy. at first i said i wanted a system to decide when to do things for myself

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Ich Spreche Kein Deutsch. Apparently that's how you say "I don't speak German"...not that I would know.

  

  any German. Not kidding: I just googled 'how to say good-bye in German ... tell how much bio and physics I managed to retain from freshman year; I ... country for a litttle while: Look familiar? To summarize ~ (1) Ahhh, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 3, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Up To Snow Good PSA: IT'S SNOWING

  

  a storm is coming, are you listening in killian, the snow is glistening a wonderful fight our snowman’s a sight walking in a winter wonderland

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• 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", for you words people) takes up the baton and covers ... learn that Beethoven may have met Mozart. I'm not sure how to describe why ... history community about whether and for how long they actually met (an

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

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  ~ next to my little blogger face up there. For the record, I am still ... decision in life comes a tradeoff: you get to go to MIT in exchange for, well, your soul? That’s how it feels to me sometimes, like I’m sacrificing my

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020