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• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  street fairs. My mom sat in my chair, and I on the floor, which is cement ... can be like useful to society,” I said. My family is big on activism. “I ... I had the chance to.  I tucked the chess set away and sat back on the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  Hmm, I was under the impression that summer was supposed to be a ... , I took the GRE in July, and the majority of my free time prior to the ... wrote my CV the other night, and I promise I'm going to sit down tomorrow

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  Mo experience. Can’t wait until the cast reunion and next IAP production. Harvard ... well. I thanked C for being awesome and promised to return to the class a ... program that I'd introduced here). The eight Youth Advocates and our two

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  to tell myself that there’s not much I can do about the past, and that ... -cold-not-rainy California and moved on with our lives. It’s been raining lately, and I get ... class in the morning. Part of me still feels like I’m seventeen and back

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  came from our scraps and ironically, the team working on "constrained ... ? Well, I have this folder on my desktop full of pictures and half written ... graduated and went home to spend a wonderful summer outside in the sunshine

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  , and attempting to imitate British accents as best I can. All the ... :) ~*~ This IAP I went to the Philippines with Yuri ’10 and Anita ’11 to work on ... ://web.mit.edu/mitpsc/) and the Global Poverty Initiative (http://gpi.mit.edu/). MIT hadn’t had

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  , though, it can be a harder question to answer. Our profession requires no ... time now, and it is the task for which I am paid; I am basically a professional Mean Girl, and I have come to be at peace with that. I have been

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  my eyes, you are done being prefrosh by definition on the first day of ... ."]REX[/annotation], and our seats were next to one another! On the plane I listened to You ... can unleash your potential and forge your own path? [take the stairs

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  I can move on to the next chapter of my life and start addressing ... a number of events and fundraisers on campus to raise the $65,000 we ... entire series of books on, and it’s not over yet. The main storyline is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  freshman anymore, so while most of my fellow freshmen will be on the ABC ... and I’ve learned so much, but the 9am-6pm hours definitely won’t be ... fun in the fall and I’m grateful for the stress relief you provided. The

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  get ahead on work. And I'm one of the lucky ones - I'm at my parents ... making two custom Discord bots. The first one can be summoned into a voice ... now, and I've been spending literally so much time on it. I can

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  void :/ and i don’t know what’s going on half the time but i pull everything together the day the pset is due (ish) and then rinse and repeat!! i ... [/annotation] and maybe having an incredible experience here and there, but it's being

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  whatever, I went on and explained. Throughout the presentation, my professor ... decision you’ve made/ You’ve put a stamp of approval on every part of the ... came out, some of you were happy and would have found the above message

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  aspired to be the sort of person who could just get up and run obscene ... tune of the first Attack on Titan theme, which is still on my running ... my lungs and not a singular one of the runs I did there were enjoyable

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  .  We shared with each other how he made an impact on our lives and also ... prioritize and humanize people the way Professor Winston did. I took this ... community - In both 6.034 and 6.803, he would either start the class with an

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there really a swim test?

  and the eight point General Institute Requirement. The swimming requirement can be met by completing a beginner swim course or electing to test ... during the academic year. If you take the right mix of classes, you can
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  on an essay, and I realize that this could be my life. I start to see ... graduation requirements, and trying my best to start being the person I want to ... It's my junior year, and I am busy working on graduation requirements

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  Facebook Groups, and both memed and was memed on at the hackathon itself ... we have only 1.5 months when everyone is on campus, and the remaining ... arrived on campus; the overwhelming number of fresh faces and scheduled

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  ? they'd ask. i have a friend who used to live on floorpi, and he always asks me about it, and i tell him it's not the same any more. he's always ... new and colorful as they once did, to the wide-eyed first-year moving to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Term 2006! Spring Term Oh Six starts today (music video included).

  

  up on a table and kicked a can to demonstrate the concept of frequency ... think you can understand why I founded the Arthur Mattuck Fan Club on the ... Buzz. 8. Roommate hits you before you can hit the snooze button. Maybe

  • by Bryan
  • February 7, 2006