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• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  This week, I worked as an Orientation Leader (OL) to help first year students acclimate to MIT. It was a fun, high-energy job. Every OL was ... , I saw people open up more to each other and really talk. Like petals

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  I can begin to even explain where I've been. At the risk of sounding ... life. And she cut me off in the middle to say "Cam, those are things that are happening to you, but how are you?" I didn't have a good answer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  Have you ever wanted to feel happier and thought, hey, maybe if I eat ... "][/video] This is also probably the most terrifying 3 minutes of my life to date and I have not been able to bring myself to watch it but now I will

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  is: you should be smarter. You really should get around to reading all those books you've been meaning to. When you ask what message a city ... then you should move to a city whose message aligns with that ambition

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  This post is intended to [annotation note="consider viewing them side ... work despite the [annotation note="extra is a strong word here. to be ... helped write an email to my dorm on March 25th, pleading for folks to take

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  that weekend, I sent an email to Baker Desk asking if I could pick it up, and they said their coronavirus policies didn't allow me to, even if I ... , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  8:00 AM wake up. check my clock and go back to sleep. 9:00 AM actually wake up. i take a shower, stop being naked, and am ready to head out ... warm fifteen minute walk. i tap my id at the elevator and take it to the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  of Sakata Afrique, in a photoshoot to publicize their spring show, "AfroShake" When I first sat down to talk to Emmanuel, that feeling of ... went on to describe his ongoing project in Ghana. He also shared with me

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  Umständen weiterläuft, an dem man sich, wenn es not tut, halten kann…” “To ... circumstances, to which one can hold tight, when necessary…” - from Nachdenken ... ; *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  month in response to my choice of dorm has been astounding: “What does ... being added next to my name—from East Campus. May show up to work with ... furniture to ceiling when bored.1 I’m a pretty vanilla EC resident. My

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  it might be of interest to you! Enjoy, and comment. Derailment ... post that connected the bed to the wheels. Fluorescent lights flooded my ... watched, clutching a clipboard to my chest. Exam Room 1 is not a normal

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  of sweat trying to get over this ridiculous cold-flu-thing - let's just say that trying to will my body back to homeostasis topped off with a 11 ... of time for blagging. Good thing they got Sniv to cover it as well. But

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  short, I removed the entry, but I think it's time to explain why. Why was this the first (or second?) entry that's ever had to be removed from the MIT blogs? Here's the official Ben Jones reason: I asked Snively to

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  the summer, I had ample opportunity to compile what may (someday) be the ... upon us, I'm proud to present you with - drum roll please - my very first ... the list, though, I do have a few quick things to say. For starters, I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  STARS (Small-Town and Rural Student) Ambassadors, to give you a quick recap of everything we’ve been up to this past year. Spoiler alert: it ... applying to college, I sometimes felt like I didn’t have people to turn to

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  tl;dr it’s cool to explore interests completely different from what ... response to the application essay question “what department or program at MIT appeals to you,” I wrote:  Pursuing Course 6.3 and UROPing at the Media Lab

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  respite from a very busy IAP (which I'll hopefully get to blogging about eventually...). But since I don't really have anything interesting to say about IAP yet, and I couldn't think of a single unified topic to write about

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  time to have fun. I promised to write more about the fun stuff I've been doing, and this is that post! Here's some of what I've been up to :D 1 ... from here when I lived on campus, so really this used to be my local

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  I'm a very Type A person, I'd say. I tend to need to be in control of ... come later than they originally said they were going to. I'm impatient ... things are out of place, which is funny because to the average viewer, my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  Last week, non-seniors who want to live on campus in the [annotation ... dorms was an experience in and of itself. In trying to figure out who [annotation note="we were allowed to staple with a group of up to eight people

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