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• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  at teaching, are very kind and I have been enjoying all my classes so ... about gravitational waves that Prof. H appears in at the very end, which ... I will leave it at that. quantum is certainly one of the classes of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  by R.F. Kuang about a young Chinese scholar studying at Oxford in the ... deep knowledge and his language translation research at Oxford University. Reading this book – imagining the young scholar working at a library similar

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  -shaped buildings arranged at odd angles between [annotation note="where large ... under construction since I started at MIT, and I’d often wonder what ... other at all. (Even with the door open, the sound you can hear in the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  Last week I started classes at MIT. A simple 7-part sentence that ... ’s something about traveling that I think can be fulfilling and scary at the same ... yourself - at least it did for me.    Probably like most of my peers

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  with my rural Wyoming roots through my work at MIT. As someone who has made the journey from a rural upbringing to working at selective ... ="attachment_101809" align="alignright" width="190"] We got up at about 5 am to drive to

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  life culture at MIT. Each booth will have club members there, so you have ... Internship Program through one of the undergraduates at a Course 17 booth ... meeting new people and asking questions instead. You'd be surprised at how

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  glassblowing classes at MIT are about ten times cheaper than similar classes ... [/annotation] pumpkins at a time. And we usually only need to start making pumpkins a few ... the second! And I guess white and purple glass expand at different rates

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  glance down at the ring and am reminded of some wonderful memories I’ve had at these places.   two Right after school ended this past ... and professors at airports, restaurants, and other public spaces. The

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  to at the beginning of IAP, but there were far smaller mini activities that went on at the same time. Here's a compilation of the ones I can ... grab food around campus, and I spent way too much of that funding at

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  This past month has been my first IAP spent entirely at MIT. IAP is ... amalgamation of everything and nothing all at once. It is also worth nothing ... called Praat. I look at things that look like this: Once the class is

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  hiring at the time. After throwing my resume at company after company, I ... until, at the end, one of the founders asked me how much compensation I ... qualifications, but I was scared I wouldn't be able to get a job at all. So despite

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  existed on a scale of ‘competence at bodypainting’ it seemed like the skills ... outcomes of the model at all. If you asked me to imitate the work of any of ... came up with an answer: some people are very good at reassuring others

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  TV while at MIT was unheard of... when i went home, everything changed ... up at 9 to sleeping at 4 am and waking up after 12 pm. and i'm not ... feel the need to...i'm basically a weeb hermit at this point. the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  -related insights and expectations I had collected during my first few days at MIT. I did not know much at the time. I was absolutely terrified of what the ... ’t know if I was going to make it. Today, I’m at the other end of the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  Steven T. ‘20, whose mother works at a salon. In the past, we’ve spoken at ... our own safety when someone could storm into our lives and open fire at ... workers at spas he frequented--leans into the hypersexualization of Asian

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Tier Listing My Classes i may have got this idea from tiktok

  

  I mentioned this in my last post, but I'm graduating soon! At the end ... memeing. On the brink of graduation, I'm able to look back at all the ... 's approximately what the tiers mean in my mind: S: My absolute favorite classes at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  year, and all my competitions got cancelled, and I’m quarantining at home ... to August, and I’m about to start at the Zoom Institute of Technology ... an effort. At a particularly low moment, I caught myself on the thought

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  interactions at any hour, and my house this year, which we dubbed "soft house ... playing games at pretty much every waking hour of the day. shoutout to Wii ... only went on one. it was incredible; we walked along the beach at night

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  At some point during the semester, when walking to quarantine lunch ... Infinite technically has 5 levels. Here at MIT, we index from 0, so the ... there's normally nobody there at night and you can go as fast as you want

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  . Of course, I usually open youtube at times of great procrastination ... laundry at 1 am the other day (as one does, living between [annotation note ... at a reasonable time and not stay up until 4 am every day

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020