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• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred ... easily to the strangers i pass on my way home. it's finally warm enough ... report on ross gay's poems once, in 21.487, and he actually came here to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  used it mainly to get a second machine opinion on the sentiment of each ... cleaning was going, but we weren't sure how to get inside MacGregor to check ... private confessions page. I decided to collect data on these Washlava

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  difficult it is to get into top colleges, weird, funny, poignant, and even ... -arts college in New England, where admissions officials had promised to assign ... my help," Mr. Conroy recalls. The young man wanted advice on where to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• 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

  

  I felt. Igniting civic engagement on campus and advocating for peer to ... .   I’m 18 and a freshman. I don’t have time to waste on video games ... health. I’m 20 and a junior. I inline skate to everywhere on campus

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

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  fastest way to get from Building 2 to E25? At the same time, too, there was so much else going on — I was constantly delighted by new realizations ... show you; 2) yes — go to the closet and get another roll and it will pop

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  , you had to get in line early for ring sales to get a subsidy. Therefore, Cara L. and I woke up at 6:30 am on a Saturday to get in line for 10 am ... guide on "How to Do CPW", and I heard it was "amusing" though I was really

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  since I was seven years old, the idea of getting to know new people was ... efforts by MIT Panhel to be transparent about how they're working on ... sororities and potential new members will connect on mutually-shared values

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  remember that I need to hire new bloggers 2) I frantically Google for the old application posts to remember how to hire bloggers 3) oh right ... compelling case for your inclusion among them, please feel free to submit an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Projects Some examples of some projects you might see in MIT writing classes

  

  on our class website, here. For my news article, I wrote about mental ... at our new policy changes and if they are actually doing anything on ... hospital and at home in New York. I had to miss my final classes for recovery

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  are amazing and if you're on the fence about coming to MIT because you ... upperclassmen and they give you the latest tips and tricks on how to not die at this new school and you just feel really cool when you're like, "Hey guys

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  an on-campus program called MIT Arts Scholars, we get exclusive access ... ] on practices of composition and choreography to create dynamic ... ="600"] they had some actual Commodore 64 computers there!!! I need to get

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  plans from your store to see if they're right for you. I say get a ... was able to get $150 back on my laptop because it had a student discount ... getting burned in pixels, leaving ghost images on my screen. This happens

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  for my MISTI (watch this space for deets on this!) and I’m there to get ... . I walk to Kendall, get on the red line, smile at a cute dog on the ... the boarding call for my train. As we queue to get on, I notice the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  min bus rides to class sound incredibly unappealing. As does getting ... dish. I read an article where Martha Stewart said to gently push your ... run key. Hardware is a little different, to say the least. When your

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  , while shedding some light on how he found his amazing UROP, why he came to ... find your UROP? A: Once you find your first UROP, it’s easy to find other opportunities. When I came to MIT, I really wanted to work on a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  'm working on a project that somehow has managed to capture everything that I ... So Sam and Mollie have both introduced you to their interesting ... their UROP. Basically, in a nutshell, I spent 2 hours sending emails to

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  ideas to Google Docs when I collaborate with someone else. Last week I ... to Sam, asking if he wanted to contribute a guest post on his ... to Google Calendar” button to block off time in my day to sit down and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  On Friday I flew out to California to visit my friend Greg. Greg is ... milled them out of wood, and who were open sourcing their designs to get ... Earth Solar. I've been out to Palo Alto / San Mateo in the past, but never

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  : Economics) and I met there on Friday night to hear Jewel perform a free ... , because some commuters had trains to catch, but most of us. 2. On ... their children. It is a bit too crowded to do homework there on a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  full. (If you came here for tips on how to get into college, I'm sorry to say all you're going to get are tips on how to eat like a West African ... up on top of each other like the laundry I forgot to fold on Sunday

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008