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• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  craving the napa cabbage and meatball soup that my dad used to make. along ... packets so i could make it myself.) i try to emulate the ghosts of my ... , but they do make me feel better by virtue of being something familiar

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  home. One way I got to do this was by hosting a student in my dorm ... to navigate a city; this student was now able to make a more informed ... chapter of their lives. I was also super impressed by how open they were to

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  "Course 8," which is the MIT-way to say Physics). To date, Denisse is by far ... slowly) to Back Bay. By the time we got back, the sun would have come out, making the walk almost unbearable as we sweated and struggled to carry the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: Parts 1 and 2 for Early and Regular Action applicants

  

  titles make you want to be their friend and classmate? Don't invent the ... Breathe… If you have submitted your application, go to 1. If you are planning to submit your application, go to 2. If you’re writing your college

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  and under stress, that is, when you need to make the decision to quit. I ... allows you to achieve [annotation note='by this I mean that intangible ... [annotation note="this was by choice, to be clear; there are lots of singles

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  students everywhere can get a chance to get mindblown by the awesomeness that ... to make me smile, and it's just one of the reasons it makes its rigor ... Listen to this awesome, late 1950s song. Now try to picture me

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  every once in awhile. So I would like to thank everyone at MIT for making ... By Gordon Wintrob '12 Well my camera conveniently died during CPW ... to be a man of few words, and my guest-entry was going to revolve

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  to me by the minute. Fortunately, through my work on the committee, one ... appropriately make the "right" one, but sometimes it's about taking that jump to ... excitement is. I realize a lot of college is about learning how not to make

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  -jokes and memes might be ephemeral, i'm hoping to do my part by recording ... blogging more and yet don't want to spend my free time blogging more. like, i ... love email. leading up to mit you get a handful of emails about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

   choosing between jobs to estimate their probability of making each choice. Their ... give it to you in the form of a short poem I found recently by Piet Hein: Whenever you’re called on to make up your mind, and you

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Premiere I bring you the 2010 Ring Premiere, in full living color!

  

  The Brass Rat is a long-standing MIT tradition that has given rise to ... 'm proud to be blogging the debut of this year's Brass Rat to the rest of the ... controversy. I would've loved to see a woman on the seal. It seems illogical

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  mineral as determined by its capacity to scratch another or be itself ... ’d also like to thank you, the reader, for making it this far in this blog ... Introduction Before coming to college, I often wondered how hard MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  began, we stood up to do an icebreaker: Say your name. Make one sound you ... who is in the second video above, taught us how to make an echo sound ... that turned out to consist mostly of resume workshops and recruiters from

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  make friends, and to participate in class events that wouldn’t come ... meeting agendae, planned events, and did the work in order to make sure that ... Thanks to Petey and Kathleen for giving me the idea to blog about

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

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  to college. But now the payoff has come, and it is time to make the ... we will welcome them to campus for the first time as members of the Class of 2015. We're getting ready to welcome lots of their parents too

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  Media Lab, (2) Going through MIT OpenCourseWare content to make my fall ... at C++. I spend time tweaking the code to make the 3D display more ... I chose to stay on-campus this summer because I knew that if I went

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  make a portfolio, the volunteering was because I wanted to help people ... just had the energy.” “What inspired you to make a pancake 3D printer ... felt repetitive. I keep track of what I’m supposed to do by memorizing

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  was no crash course for how to apply and make a strong application. I ... secondly, every decision we make does not have to stem from this long thought ... here is limited. We all deserve to love and be loved. Not just by others

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  -to-5, cooking, and adulting (read: making sure I pay my bills on time ... abroad, and it's been refreshing to not have to rely on my broken A1.2 Schwiizerdütsch to get around on a daily basis. Random things I've dearly missed

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  's one answer I found: going to lectures by the super cool people who come ... I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully prepared to entrust my productivity to a flaky Wi-Fi connection. Once I got

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012