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• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  i've started collecting cds. i think part of this has come from wanting to return to physical media, things i can hold in my hand and feel ... accessing my favorite pieces of art in digital space. i flirted with

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  Today I'm hosting a guest post by Jade Durham '25, who — alongside ... that I supervised about MIT in the Marvel Multiverse. Jade just published ... Student I have been a big fan of Marvel ever since 2016. I get pretty hyper

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  I encountered the Next House moving carts on my first day at MIT. I ... ="Freshman Shorna was punching the air"]obtaining my key,[/annotation] I grabbed one ... my car. The cart was bright blue, and right before I hoisted my first

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  One. It's the first time I'm seeing Sean in three months. He's the person living nearest me whom I've known for the longest—I think we've been ... seeing me? That I'm fatter now. [carousel image1="64804" image2

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  you must discard down to seven. six. i didn't do much this iap and that's fine. well, depending on what your view is of "much", this isn't true. i ... . mystery hunt happened. then i wrote a blog post about mystery hunt, which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  Like most bloggers, as a starry-eyed freshman, I wrote a bio that has ... 's cool is that I can now attribute the changes in myself and my interests directly to experiences that I've had at MIT, or people that I've met here

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  Last week, I started lifting. Again.  During my last semester here, my suitemate and I had gotten into the habit of it. We ... "]Lifting Heavy Things.[/annotation] That was my first foray into lifting, and I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  way back when, i wrote about the mistake of a courseload that i took second semester of freshman year. it was a terrible semester and i don ... ! i'm bracing myself for another terrible semester. i keep telling

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  slowed down. After running at 75 mph for the past year, I barely walk at 3 now. And while it still feels insanely weird to be moving so slowly, I ... there, that is. My January looked a little differently. In fact, I’d say

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  As I’m starting to write this, I’m sitting on an airplane, my rear end seriously sore from ~6 hours in one seat. I’m 24 minutes out from Los Angeles, and I can’t wait to spend Thanksgiving with my family. At

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  while I clean up this potential PR disaster; if I don't, Chris and Dave ... form of pork I find to be often more delicious than bacon? Chinese barbeque pork (or at least, that's what I think it is -- browsing google

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  four weeks, I was a card-carrying vegetarian. Why? So I'd have something to write about on my blog someday. Kind of. Over the past year, I've been trying to give up certain things and routines I take for granted so

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  [i think i need to drop another class] Hey gang, it’s your favorite failure, back to fail a little bit more! I think that the weather has a ... fifties, and it’s the most positive and happy I’ve been in weeks. I thought

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  internship.   7:00 This morning I woke up nervous as hell, mainly because I didn’t know where to buy cake. I also had an end ... . This is my last week here, so I had to pay it forward. Issue is, bakeries

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  Saying that I was excited to go to college would be like saying that space is big. I couldn't wait to start over - to create an entirely new ... Ocean away. I was ready for new streets, new faces, new classes and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  In my first month at MIT, I: Caught COVID, then a cold, then strep ... (badly enough that I needed physical therapy) Had my cat get sick Had ... the VA Had a few other problems I’d rather not share here Struggled

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• 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 would’ve meant the world to freshman me back in high school. But as I ... nights and interesting experiences, I want to reflect a little on my first

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  random set of clues, but something connects them together. i don't think ... like a very clear shape. and i know this shape "isn't really there". but ... splotches is an ungestalt. all of this is to say that, a few days ago, i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  On June 14th, I began my journey to MIT. I packed all my clothes ... set off on a cross-country road-trip. I was leaving that early because I ... , as some people see it, I signed up for a preview of hell to replace my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  The other day I learned something new. After being here for almost three years, I learned that MIT has a climbing wall. Now, in any other ... this thing existed (I live under a rock, apparently... so much so that I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012