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• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  interminable, since in order to successfully win a game you have to get through ... opening plays memorized, but to be entirely clear, I’m not one of them. My older brother didn’t have the patience to play chess with me (I had a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  that wine in Spain is not just an excuse for people to get wasted. 5. I ... our contact (who was supposed to give us directions on getting to our ... system in Madrid. Puts the T to shame. 9. I love the Starbucks employee who

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Sweet Deal An offer I will not refuse.

  

  . ------------------------------------------------------- Since you are a member of the MIT Class of 2007, You get to ask a ... only do you get a chance to interact closely with amazing teachers ... we should take out to dinner or where we should go out to eat? Mitra

  • by Bryan
  • February 28, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  [annotation note="It's important to note how I am defining dimension here. By ... dimensions. For instance, the Earth is locally homeomorphic to R^2, by which I ... -earthers are by any means correct, but I think the misconception's origins do, to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  “Walking in LA” by the Missing Persons and “Welcome to New York” by Taylor ... wearing. With so many more people walking by all the time, I started to ... walkable. I don’t need the subway to get groceries, or go shopping, or even

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  then get to fry all kinds of delicious foods in our two deep fryers. 19 ... Infinite Corridor. I used a power drill. I got my arm signed by Chris M. '12. I even did my differential equations homework in close proximity to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  be eggs and veggies, but I forgot to get eggs, so it was in fact just ... Campus, what do you eat?” My answers have varied, from “Free food!” to “A lot of things,” to “Uhh… I mean… I certainly did. I actually have no

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  ’t blagged since the fall semester started due to trying to get on top of ... I also get excited (really, really excited) by writing, social media ... caused by a fire sprinkler, something that’s supposed to protect against

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  get. I won’t have new grades by Feb. 15. What do I do?? Ya still gotta ... the FUN form to tell us a joke. :) What if I submit by FUN form and ... as much as my family did: Anyway, I come to you in 2018 bearing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  anyway. He went into the bathroom to get some water and I returned to our ... outside, a cup held to his chest. In response to my jumping in fright and ... , grinning. We say “wow” in the same way—long, drawn out, typically to signal

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  how to fix it. Anyway, that tire swing inspired me to get back to ... didn't know then how to train myself to get stronger -- honestly, I feel ... concepts of damped harmonic motion and centripetal forces, which is to say we

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  tried several times to get a better picture of this, but I couldn't get ... 'd like to meet anyone who ends up buying one of these. By posting these ... adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  Little by DBC Pierre. In this entry, I thought I'd prove to you that MIT ... this book. Roth can really write, and I want to get acquainted with some ... was trying to find myself but was unsuccessful. Then we went to Shawna

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  shock patterns... by the time we headed back it was starting to look like ... never blogged about it. Well, I'm going to now, because someone asked me ... in a pre-orientation program they thought I'd be able to help. Instead

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Are Beginning To Arrive Some thoughts for everyone.

  

  very, very proud of your accomplishment. To those of you who didn't get in, please continue to hold your heads up high. We didn't have room for ... A few of you are starting to receive your decisions. To those of you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  people tend to overestimate their unhappiness about not getting a job, as ... phenomenon by which we return to stable levels of happiness in spite of major ... student's initial reaction to getting into Yale versus their current

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  get back to learning more trivia. so oops. sorry if like, you actually ... by Cole Porter as a response to Oklahoma! The Gulf of Bothnia ... -SHEF-skee”. The phrase “return to normalcy” used by Biden was first used by Harding

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  was mispronouncing the name of a continent, or the way I refused to call class and majors by their course numbers my first few weeks here, because it felt elitist to speak in a code no one outside MIT could understand

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  , and MIT has a front row seat. Each year on July 4th, a concert by the ... approximately 100 Smoots and 250 Smoots), the bridge, with nothing to block its ... Association (the MIT Sailing Club) and their families only, you can't get much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  column written by each year's alumni class secretary keeping everyone up-to ... Like many universities, MIT has an alumni magazine that it sends to ... real publication sold on newsstands that people actually want to read

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005