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• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  as essentially a shower thought by Cynthia L. '20 ended up becoming an ... lights set up, rows of soon-to-be-filled chairs, and a work in progress ... happening." I spent the 45 minutes I ended up having prior to the concert in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  temporary exhibits.     ...letter-pressed, I signed up for a 4 ... take a trip back to Switzerland. I ended up choosing the latter, and back to Zürich I went. I signed up for a two-day Schnupperlehre (aka

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  to pick up new activities to fill any available time, like a gas ... said earlier about filling up the empty parts of my schedule with ... 'm taking this class as a follow-up to last semester's 9.01 Intro to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  few days before the project was due, I restarted using Lua. I ended up ... very sad, but I talked about what I wanted it to be and I ended up ... recommend looking up Megaman if you don't know what it is, it's a really

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  diverse, as I rose up through honors-level and advanced placement courses, I ... paired up with one student in the nerd herd for a quiz, the rest of the ... months at MIT (even now and again it still pops up!). My biggest fear was

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  about it, how we won’t actually know what we ended up majoring in until ... -is-becoming-pretty-standard hard And waking-up-in-time-for-your-9am-class-that-you-slept ... -prevent-your-already-late-pset-from-being-more-late hard And The-list-of-challenges-can-fill-up

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... in the wrong direction and almost end up in Tufts. No, we did not make ... resume. Tries pulling it up on my laptop. Computer gets just as overwhelmed

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  your guesstimate is wrong. Every month up until my last semester, I was ... up, really fast. I realized that I could no longer lie to myself with ... " thing that I won't end up using. Sometimes the very next day, it will

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  finish up this blog post that I started last week, but I have just been too lazy to finish up this week. Spending a whole year at MIT really changed ... like I end up talking about it so much in these blogs. Well, I have

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

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  this idea to Charlotte, she actually started jumping up and down and did ... . Danny was working on 18.03 and looked up confused by all the hand gestures ... turn our facebook messenger chat into a text file. We looked this up and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  bodies of children would be curled up with mine at night. Ruth’s sister Asede on the one side, and Surafiel inevitably ending up somewhere on the ... other relatives, and laughter, and she looks up at me, with a trademark

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  THURSDAY, April 12 Woke up to the smell of smoke coming from the East ... told me the wisdom behind making rush burgers, up to the perfect amount ... accompany the courtyard fun, which was nice to wake up to. Although the CPW

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  , so I wouldn’t have to go up to strangers and say, “Hey are you the ... to this place. I went on a UROP tour (Sign up early, they’re super cool ... suitcase wasn’t big enough, and you end up having to wear 4 layers of clothes

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  something up on the day of the test. I thought I was going to forget a ... have less “free-time”, but I made up for a lot of the busy time during ... good feeling about April, and all my weekends coming up have something

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

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  the year by packing up all my stuff in Boston, hauling most to storage ... ! Some of my friends I've skated and competed with growing up qualified for ... in Barcelona, and then Essen, Germany, and time to rest up physically

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  placement in the hall, the dining halls are back up and running, and the ... first day back started. I got up way too early, ate way too much ... twenty minutes because I showed up too early. Pretty soon, I grabbed a seat

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  life-changing. You started in one place and will end up in another. You ... ’t wait to throw your cap up high at graduation. But you’re also a tad bit ... open yourself up, in essay after essay, decisions become really REALLY

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  ’ve also found that I like switching up where I work, sometimes a corner desk ... mom on my day or finish up a HASS reading. so foreign ah R E S T A U R ... waking up at 4 a.m. to stumble into the boathouse for morning rowing

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  is a thing, I asked Christina to write up a brief history of how this ... registration drive held in the days leading up to the Massachusetts registration ... other generous MIT faculty, we set up a table in Lobby 10 expecting to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  ponder how you ended up here, the intricacies of aerospace engineering, but mostly, uh, how did I end up here?!?!?! Anyways, unlike yesterday, I am ... the view you get when lying down, looking straight up. Can you find MIT

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017