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• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  walk by the food court in The Source and only see shadows of past selves ... faces have started to erode with the passing of time and I am afraid that ... vulnerable and affectionate, loving and open, bold and daring.  At the end of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  whole bowl of pins such as this one at the Academic Expo. T ... completely new place full of strangers and challenges and legends and horror ... your understanding of the resources available to you as a new member of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  a few weeks ago, and asked us to apply some of the concepts we learned ... hours upon hours of basically the same material each night. This semester ... , and two classes for the GEL Program. Mine just might be the most random

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  for an inch of rain and a thunderstorm in the White Mountains, Joe '08 ... 's all a state of mind. Read on and find out how I spent the second day of ... hang freely, and then, with one rapid flick of the wrist, somehow tie the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  ’s 48 degrees and I can’t feel my toes.) I’m not the only one – many of my ... essential part of the Haus. Three hours later, though, a few students and one ... . And now, it’ll never be the same. As the condition of the entire tree

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  myself sick and just laid in bed the first two days of the hunt, feeling ... . A lot of color adjustment makes for crappy close-ups, and the white ... a certain Larry Summers Syndrome, and the future of the Harvard

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  personal life, and I can't really do that for a whole host of reasons. So, I ... the course of the first few weeks of the class, I began to fall further ... ."]reconsidering their majors,[/annotation]I dropped the math part of my 21S major, and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  -back, carefree, and a whole lot of fun. This year my summer is shaping up to be quite the opposite (except still a whole lot of fun). I've got at least ... ) copy of: Iron Man, 21, Goodwill Hunting, and the Back to the Future

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  bunch of green space, courtesy of the steel-era millionaires Frick and ... outcomes and implications of the implementation. Send it to the rest of my ... long, laugh a little too hard, and ask if the whole thing was supposed to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  gives out 1 pset a week of variable difficulty and length. The shortest ... . Let's take a look around 54-100. Shiny and state of the art. I did a little sweep, back to front of the lecture hall, and confused some kids

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  barbeques around campus during the first few weeks of school, or from late ... the Museum of Fine Arts, and humanities classes at Wellesley. Harvard is ... and the Museum of Fine Arts are also pretty close by. See, that wasn

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  people, and I want to improve! So, on the first weekend after classes ... Bhangra! Bhangra is a style of dance from the Punjab area of India, and it ... was really really hot (⅔ of the fans were broken), and we were jumping

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  . Here's an abridged version of the whole thing. I grew up in Hampton Bays ... the college of my choosing. On this second and more thorough trip to ... very appealing. And, yes, 42% of the population at MIT, as it turned out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  Hundreds of Facebookers united behind one banner and under several ... -- on the bus there, I ran into a flock of Google interns wearing this super adorable shirt: But for the most part, our view of the rest of the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  5's on AP exams (and have passed all of your first semester classes ... sophomore standing (to the grief of the director of the UAAP (academic and ... , when I went to UPMUNC in November. One of the most common questions the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  later, in an ironic (and quite sad) twist of fate, I broke the November ... essential. the first few months form the basis for the rest of your experience, and having the majority of your time be consumed by one person is not

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  first time. and the values of HS me may have been kept throughout college ... — the usual feelings of hosage, and what to write, and all of that. but ... ostensibly from, was only really home for the people it had. and so many of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  live as a human being and not a human doing. Here are some of the ... more, and the mental load of the pain push me over the edge. Big, fat ... and just take the bus, an uber, or walk. My calendar isn’t full of back

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  last year. And yes, graduate students get an IAP; one of the students in ... conclusion of my EMT class and random dinner parties with friends. About halfway into IAP, I wrote Sam with the intention of stealing his infinite

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  've had a glass of milk since 1996 - I mainly go for the walk and perhaps ... , and feeling all right about it because I only had to be somewhere in the ... after running to Building 35 for a quiz. I've since spent the balance of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006