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• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  to stay safe, but the request felt empty. How could any of us ensure ... any given moment? I didn’t cry. Mostly, I felt bone-deep exhaustion and ... to come live in our houses and sleep in our beds. after For most of

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

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  until I was out of breath and panting on the floor. Which only made me ... and headstrong as this person was reduced to merely their number on the ... out, I was aware of my flesh body and form. In elementary school, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  shutting down. After checking in and dropping my bags in a sea of other bags ... at the center of the room, and quietly slid to the edge of the room ... author Alexandra Horowitz goes on urban walks with people of [annotation

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  and headed back towards MIT. At the start of our last week on campus, rolls of packing tape and stacks of cardboard boxes started to appear on ... ’t spend any time on campus. I'm tired of moving around, but honestly, every

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  . We had bathrooms on every floor of the dorm building, and they all ... your ears with your thumb and index fingers and hop from one end of the ... noodles to avoid sharing any, he was still one of us, and we liked him. One

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Events

  And if I had a million dollars Solve this problem and win a million dollars, SERIOUSLY.

  

  interesting solution would shed light on many of the mysteries surrounding the ... with his unheard of system." 10-250 (Home of 3.091) was PACKED. This ... Read this book. Or you can just solve one of these math problems

  • by Bryan
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  about image and reputation. Many of my best friends are pretty uninhibited ... because we're young. In any case, my parents and my friends are two very different kinds of happy. The Namesake touches on this distinction; I think

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  sleeping playlist and you're JUST ON THE BRINK OF DRIFTING OFF when the kid ... in harmony on my first flight of sophomore year and 2) it is keeping me ... transportation and babies. Though I don't visit home particularly frequently, going

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  opinions on the merits and flaws of the book. For instance, to his taste, my ... . As a result, the novel broke even on the first day of sale, and since ... , satellites and equipment that comprise AIT are situated on top of a hill, but

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my ... you can manipulate. A sensor above generates a 3D model of the sand, and ... heard of it, and a good amount of people in the video raise their hands

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  “dorm culture” was a thing. I wasn’t (and still am not) in any MIT 2020 group chats or Facebook groups, and I didn’t even know any other freshmen ... into some websites and blogs on this very site, I started really liking

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  randomness You also improve on some meta-skills and get more of things like ... class. It is challenging. Each lecture has a bunch of content and it ... and statistical setup people have found to describe the problem of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to my home Feel free to chill in here

  

  want to live on, the type of room you want to live in, and who you want ... turn on my music and just nap in my bed, forgetting about how difficult ... . I had an 18.023 (Calc w/ Applications) and 8.02 (Physics II) exam last

  • by Celena C. '12
  • October 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  managing with all your school work and EMS on top of it? Are you left with ... goals on the ground as well as goals high in the air (hence the name of ... that are parked on a small ramp at the end of the match. Teams get 6 jam

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  I'm writing this blog post sitting on my bed in my room at home in ... , and 18.03 Differential Equations). Since freshmen are on pass/no record ... people are ready to take it on without the training wheels. Both of my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  Biology of Culture: Bridging Art and Science Straight from the scribbles in my notebook, a smattering of quotes, points and diagrams: "I ... dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  all of a sudden it was finals week. my only two finals were both on ... on monday so i could have just taken them and be done with the semester ... , reading things, lying down on the other side of the room, chatting people

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  -Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to ... feature X-Treme Web Browsing among shots of sweat-spurting sprinters and ... monolithically more befuddling. Of the innumerable places and professions that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  of belonging, and community. I had already found the perfect coffee ... local tortilleria and a package of my favorite chorizo. All of these ... make a person feel at home. But acquiring a sense of happiness, sense of

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  Despite being a brief and shallow fan of Hamilton in middle school, I ... no shortage of plays and a cappella performances and dance showcases ... sense of immersion? The lights, sound, and set design tend to be more

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025