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• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  monitoring and adjusting orientation. Life at MIT isn’t so different. You ... life shoves you. *(Credit for this analogy goes to retired astronaut ... ; During my time at MIT so far, I've learned some valuable lessons about

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  happenings and other life events. Of course, our conversation arrived at the ... "job" -- yes, a fun one at that, but a job nonetheless. And others don ... ?), and maybe they aren't first or even last in line at the free finals

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  bunch of work backed up and waiting for me. (Yes, I highlight some cool ... lot as a result, lending to my feeling that I haven't been here long. At ... deadlines and actually feeling compelled to put forth the effort for paper

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  learned anything in my classes at MIT. By the end of my sophomore year, the ... how hard I tried. Although for many people, MIT convinces them that nothing is impossible (and in some ways, it did that for me), for the most

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  is for everyone! it’s not that deep lol. at the end of the day i think ... Sometime in high school, I was trying to break the ice at a group ... at how self conscious bloggers are of their Spotify Wrapped data. I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  classes for this to happen. but at the same time i'm just frustrated that it ... walked to campus today and let the mid-fall breeze bite at my face. i could see my breath misting in front of me. when i looked up at the sky, it

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  I've sort of been implying this on the blogs for a while now, but I ... am really tired of school. I feel like when people at MIT say this ... doing those things for fun on my own time. I've always felt like I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  This past week and a half I've been slowly adjusting to life at MIT ... cook. Instead, I've been mooching off of Raymond and Aiden for their ... with her mouth. I said I'd be more diligent and better at coding. This

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  "Afeefah, do you still write for the blogs?" I've gotten this ... get better. Rather, you get better at being at MIT. It's the little ... spots. Go explore. Take breaks when you're studying. No one can work at

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  military vessel stationed in Boston Harbor (although its runs at this point ... monument has been on my bucket list for a while. It’s 294 stairs to the top ... decided to take Hubways back into downtown. For those of you who don’t know

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  D at Vanderbilt, and Hendrik, a current MIT graduate student.   ... because you’ll be too busy laughing and being happy. Now he’s at Vanderbilt ... imagine that they must have had my info from when I was a finalist for the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  going here. Your biggest concern is that MIT, which doesn't stand for ... dedicated to the arts at MIT, but you know that spiels are spiels, not actual testimonies. What's worse, maybe the facilities provided for the arts are in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  them on again for the holidays! Pay them handsomely to be "on call" at ... traveler who arrived at the wrong airport after a trip four times longer than ... for your delayed connection." "Though you sprinted through the airport

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too busy ... camera monitors. Yeah, try that at home. (Actually, you can. They tell you ... there, for your amusement. Consider it an excuse to friend me. The Last

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  :30 AM, hang around at the top for seven hours or so, then watch the ... near our work for $20. (FORESHADOWING!) It wasn't too bad at first. But ... stood almost but not quite at the top, shivering and hating myself for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  President Susan Hockfield for the first time at a Christmas reception and ... when I started, and I get to look back at all I've done. Not gonna lie ... funny"). For better or for worse, I'm a different person now than I was

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  at a table at Burton Conner, I decided that that was the dorm for me-- at least until East Campus, who was responsible for building the giant ... could cash out for real money at any time (though I don’t think anyone

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  friend from Chicago got mad at me for being such a tourist ... believe my love for the sky at the edges of day is rooted in some ... in the Bay Area, and I’ve been doing research (a.k.a. UROPing) at MIT

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  one. For the past two weeks, I’ve been spending my evenings singing in a choir. The Boston Conservatory is running a program for high ... members in the area to fill in for vocal parts that are underrepresented

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  shortened and for a moment he stood at the edge and the world shrunk until ... contributing to the indefinite play of the game itself. For example, art ... high-school I resolved to play infinite games. To find and fight for the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025