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• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  dissected every day and the feeling that I was a lizard-person trying my best ... was going to be a day where I suddenly stopped being scatterbrained and ... each successive fail. I could do calculus; I could rattle on all day

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  On June 1 (where my last post left off) I hopped on a plane and left ... at 4am the next day better than I ever could ... remember - if I did the exact same thing every day for a week, seven days

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  about these days are said weekends she's asked me to write something about ... much work they have to do. I guarantee you that one day will not go by in ... the coolness scale (jet engines win over MATLAB any day), it is also

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  A couple of days before a physics test, my friend Chacha'14 posted on ... . Climb trees. Race down the hallway. Go outside and feel the cold for 30 ... 're too tired to work, but have to work, take a 15-30 minute, 90-120 minute

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  they don't have to. -Starting classes. By the way, getting up at 8:30 twice a week (for 24.900 - Intro to Linguistics - which is at 9:30 on ... . -Doing an 18.03 problem set already, even though it is only the third day

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  This past March, a few days after my birthday, I spent a Saturday ... -on Introduction to DNA! to seventh through ninth graders at Spark, a day ... will reach the sun and back 67 to 333 times, or the moon and back 25

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Blending In (Guest Entry) Of singing, eating, and shopping (sorta)

  

  day and managed to snag a hamburger before the residents began to notice ... my friends didn't win the $25 COOP giftcard. One of my friends had ... 'd been planning to weedle the $25 giftcard from him if he had won. Alas, I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  the very last day. I was supposed to send the email requesting an interview on Wednesday, but only clicked the button today. I’m supposed to take the midterm today in two hours and 19 minutes, as of the moment I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  building 38 is, because all the buildings in the 30s are in a completely ... Pirate Certificate - 25% complete. Turns out that you can in fact get PE ... ’s likely that this sidequest will forever be stalled at 25%... Sidequest 3

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  Today is Day 5, after my laptop refused to boot after turning on early last Wednesday morning. In these last five days, I feel like I ... days drafting summer internship applications and writing essays for my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  for the day when he would not have to spent 2.5 hours [every day] of his ... have it, "the day" came on August 13th of 2010, and now that same (not as young) admissions blogger has a significantly reduced commute! Some days

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  honestly hope that some of you went into school today and, playing the role

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  lasted 30 hours, 59 minutes and 27 seconds. Thanks to my beloved high ... up the extra day that I had hanging out on my Eurail pass and take a day trip down to Montreux, Switzerland. I AM SO HAPPY. I've been a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  , and you spend anywhere between 10 and 30 hours a week together.[annotation note="fortunately my partner was wonderful, and the 30-hour weeks were ... .m. some days or stayed until 7 p.m., worried that showing up later or

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  (Editor's note: For rhetorical purposes, let's pretend that “today ... today, I walked onto the MIT campus for the first time and nearly hated it ... stuck in a lab for most of the day. I mean, I'm sure she was voluntarily

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  10:30 → Wake up. Panic. No time for real breakfast. It’s too early to ... Wonder’s “Visions” for the third time. It’s the perfect soundtrack. 11:30 ... the ground to mail to my sister. 12:30 → The T ride back is accompanied

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  Barkowitz and I have decided that today would be a good day to ... work 24 hours a day coming up with groundbreaking research or I could ... all the PE classes in these disciplines. Aaargh!). 2:25 Hacking

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  . The other day, I called Allen, one of the underclassmen in my wing, and ... stayed up for over 30 hours making the 2023 Next House i3 video when the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  The other day I dropped off my application to the International Honors Program in the mailbox across from WILG. So begins my journey to ... accepted, I will be travelling with a group of about 30 students to Detroit

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  mean little. We will not base our decisions on 30 points on a test or ... head out to Cafe St. Petersburg) with a link to the 25-75 percentile ... student (hi Rob!) the other day. The short answer to your question is that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004