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• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  to the next, never fully being present. I crash onto the bed at night ... do to fix this?" and they look at me with sad eyes. What can I do to ... miss spontaneous trips to diners at 3am. I miss feeling excited for the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  work A: yeah and i bet they're saying to themselves A: look at these ... mario kart A: like we're driving along in life A: at any moment we can ... up graduating and then working a job A: and i'll look back at this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  at East Campus"]slightly dangerous ride[/annotation] and things are flying past at a breakneck speed. I’m trying to grab onto moments and ... in me. I look back at who I was a month ago and it takes me some time

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  logistics of crocheting at MIT. How will I pack all my yarn? What project ... 've successfully woven in my crocheting with my life at MIT. But why do I spend so ... [annotation note="At home, I crocheted bonnets for my cat"]functionally useless

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  This past semester I took Intro Psychology at MIT with Professor ... of the most interesting and fun lectures I've ever had at MIT. As a ... in her dress, you marvel at how green the material of her outfit is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  Emma spent winter break at home with her family! She also had some really ... incredibly hard at this project and have been doing really well in [annotation ... stuck at home, hence why she picked up that cool project with Raymond. She

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  through half of my time at MIT. It's strange, and scary, and...viscerally uncomfortable. Is time real?? I've already lived at my current house for longer than both the places I stayed at this summer, even though those times

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  watching Harry Potter for the nth time. On a normal day, there are at least four of us working in the kitchen at all times, with others joining now ... workouts for us. The first night I tried, we did it outside at 11 pm, and it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  . But the break felt so short, and once I was back at MIT, I was in an ... Monday exam[/annotation]at the end of fall semester, and I stayed at home ... in exactly whichever way I desired at exactly any moment. It. Was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  , Catherine D'Ignazio, is even a professor at MIT! Oh god I'm old.  Earlier ... about who she is, what she's doing, and how people at/aspiring to MIT can stay informed. Who are you?  I'm a new faculty at MIT in the Department

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  , i didn’t blog! at all!!   now, as i reflect on the past month, i can only marvel at how many important moments are soaked into the ... nothing but fulfilling shopped with my roommates at the Prudential Center

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  Things pick up pace real quick once the semester starts. At times, it ... , responsibilities, meetings, applications. The grind never stops, and it comes at you ... to look right back at you in the eye. That's one longwinded way of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  professors at the university near home, sent out "cold emails" aka begged ... , linguistics...) are just right for a very particular project: looking at DEEDS ... ... getting to go home at 5 pm and have the rest of the night to yourself

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  don’t say them at all. Impulse purchases = a bulging closet but no ... whether or not to wash my hair at night (believe it or not, I’ve once ... goes on. Solution: Arrive at least 30 extra minutes before you think you

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  brains are really interesting, or at least that's what mine thinks. 7 ... been that it starts at 9:30 am. 7.49: Developmental Neurobiology ... two 20-minute presentations on recent papers from the field at the end

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

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  ’ve got mixed emotions. You can see college peeking at you from around the ... ’t wait to throw your cap up high at graduation. But you’re also a tad bit ... -way through with senior year. You’re at the point where application deadlines

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  ’m initiating this life of research. At the time of applying, I was dead set on ... . Yeah! Advance mankind! However, then, in my case at least, I asked myself ... the problem. I emailed at least five professors with research ranging

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  sufficiently absurd, but at least they will (probably) laugh (or cry) at your pi ... commonly known here as Reg Day. Morale is at a local maximum. Provisions are ... type. The door is at the optimal angle between slightly ajar and fully

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  stares at me. I should’ve Googled if deer attack humans. But at least the mother deer’s three babies are concentrated on grass. At sunset, the ... and major, I attended a cake decorating event at the local library. The

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  stared at our soaking wet clothes. We shared stories about ourselves on the ... you might expect a typical freshman to take at MIT, in subjective order ... /theory/proof based. I studied for the 18.02 ASE and thought I had a good shot at

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016