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• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  , making you rethink your values, and so on, MIT can do interesting things to ... that they want to do something that makes them happy. Back when I ... for the last four years. I came in as a premed, somewhat intimidated by

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  community, and reminded me to make space for connecting with my cultures more ... from the end of the trail to the train station was the worst part by far ... perhaps make me sad. Or unemployed. How will I do everything that I want to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  one accomplish such a thing? By learning to see. All the exotic habitats ... ) arrived, we moved on to a second spot by the pier, and set up again. I saw ... about those distinctions. So excited that one is willing to make them in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  want to work on in the future to make your writing better." Issues I should work on to make my writing better? No one had ever said that to me ... to write the third paper, please make an appointment with the writing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  to find out (the answer to that last question, by the way, is no ... travesty of a sentence last year.  I still make lame over-the-top metaphors ... .  But primary sources are so hard to find, right?  Right? Michael

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  over Killian Court, to read The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster, an ... , was. By the end of the story I had inched halfway around the table to ... , suspiciously asking the class to introduce itself and not talking about protein

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  students to eat more healthily, including by eating breakfast and (presumably ... see, MIT currently has a rather unorthodox dining system, and by that I ... add money to a TechCash account and whenever your ID is swiped anywhere

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between ’em they done Tried to make me ... to walk through. In my head was a mix of regret, anger, sadness ... to pieces, and ironically, this was the year when more people than he

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  , which said, "How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so ... making it hard to say goodbye, and for that I am extremely grateful. Here ... run, there's still time to change the road you're on and it makes me

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  pieces at friends is all it takes to make a terrible week a million times ... a little abnormal. It was Halloween. I was surprised to see the lack ... . Regardless, I covered my costume, went to a really cool meeting in the morning

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  instead of making them have to read the chicken scratch that is my ... the time to finish them! In the future though, by the end of the ... lazy to finish up this week. Spending a whole year at MIT really changed

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  entertaining than making a pile of clothes to give to Goodwill while singing ... that the fact that I go to MIT leads to almost immediate stereotyping by ... . I got to hear stories about my UROP professor as a graduate student (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  to make uncontrollable noises and movement. For a career as speech ... interesting turn of events, Naina is hired by her own alma mater to take on the ... life make us who we are in the most basic way possible. By “changing

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  QUESTIONS!" Seriously. I’m not making this up. People here love to teach. A ... eagerness to help used to make me feel horribly guilty, because I felt that I ... option. You figure that the world is over and that you're going to fail out

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  , Simmons Hall has a bazillion little windows in order to make the building ... myself outside in the snow or in the rain, waiting for the strobe lights to stop blinking before heading back into the dorm to resume whatever I was

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Rush photos

  

  wood. This year, some of our wooden structures were connected by bridges ... was called "Danger Zone", which makes me think of the movie Top Gun. You ... harnesses and had to wear helmets. I didn't manage to get a good picture of a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  give me steady enough footage to not cause motion sickness. Whoops. The ... you try to speed up an already-wobbly video to 800%, it becomes a blurry rollercoaster of MIT scenery that is pretty unpleasant to watch. Even post

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  nearly had a panic attack. I tried to study the first few pages of the ... !) so here it goes. IТƒфd like to preface this all with the statement of ... reason. First semester is on pass/no record (P/NR) in order to give

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 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 / Admissions

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

  

  to make… PANCAKES?! Dig into blueberry chocolate chip spicy cinnamon ... 'll learn to spin in Random Hall: poi and staff. Things that make your head ... Infinite Corridor. I used a power drill. I got my arm signed by Chris M. '12

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013