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• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  instance, last fall i filled out a google form to go live with 30 strangers ... as a kid, i used to always be on edge when interacting with people ... every stranger i encountered, and it took me a long time to realize that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  I took a long break from blogging. I [annotation note="and will be posting quite often, for a bit – enjoy!"]recently started posting again ... , 2019. Google tells me the length of my hiatus: [annotation note

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  sunshine streaming through the frosted window - I was greeted with a ... . Clearly, I’m not a fan of trite platitudes. I got a collection of ... insignificance whenever I might be at risk of feeling too hopeful. After all, “If a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of ... ’ve been on campus for just over three weeks, and, according to the Google ... everything from Chipotle to liquid nitrogen ice cream, but also made a binary

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  and two other ARTalk bloggers in 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I would like to ... ’s Acting with the Camera (21M.624) class and taking a tour of MIT ... German) first. The exhibit is in a completely dark room except for the

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  classes. It was a good entry, and this was going to be a comment on it, but ... Confidential when I was applying to colleges, and this is probably a good thing ... angry or sad. A bunch of the parents were very skeptical that you don

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  far the biggest fan of American Idol at MIT, I was still a little ... entering, sitting down, then standing up again and screaming for two and a ... for a second. Would you really continue toward that sign? Read on at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  one There's this thing called a "cruft house", when a group of MIT ... insisted we come up with a name. The three of us-Sathwik, Rohan, and I ... scoped a few of us on LinkedIn and sent us a Discord invite, and then one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

  for academic planning. Here are some essentials: CourseRoad is a ... a tentative schedule for four years, track prerequisites, see class ... completed classes on difficulty, pace, and other factors on a scale of 0 to 7

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  's gone, time has slowed to a crawl. my area issued a shelter-in-place until May 4th, which means that i won't see him or any of my friends for a ... high-school-esque. in my junior and senior years, i took only a few

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  David Helfand: "Unfortunately we don't have time for a formal Q&A session, but I'm sure that Neil would be happy to stick around for a few ... pointed at me: "yes! question?" Me: "You talked a lot about how the public

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  It's been a while. Hi. (This is a long post, but you won't complain ... isolation of the Clock gene in mice. Clock is the result of a point mutation ... ~24 hours to a little over 25 hours. To express this mutation

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  attempting many iterations, we consulted Google, which took a while because the ... 's true; I used to wake up at five a.m. even though school didn't start ... -to-charm-the-opposite-gender thing, because, again: deeply unpopular. The effort was a lot of fun, but

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  In a public high school with about 700 people per class, there was ... learned to shove facts into my head, regurgitate it on a test a week later ... . It was a fear of being wrong that came at the price of making progress

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  first of the following month. This would normally total to a tuition ... 50 cents a day. Today, an email from MIT asking me for money reads ... consider giving us a piece of your salary? OK, so it's not really like that

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  organizing stuff. I have tried to start using a google calendar, but it’s not ... college? what?? Like many I’ve talked to, I’m still stuck a couple ... . Senior year was a blur, and junior year basically never existed. I forgot

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  still seems like too weighty a decision for a single Google Form. i ... it's a cloudy Tuesday morning and i'm walking to Caffe Nero to get a matcha latte. Caffe Nero is conveniently only a five minute walk away from

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  [/caption] we had the people who attended FLEX fill out a google form ranking ... if you've read any of my blogs, you know that i'm a former resident of Burton Conner, a dorm that is currently under renovation and will be

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  a sprawling codebase. I didn't enjoy Googling errors and copy ... This last month, I was a micro-intern on the Semantic Machines team ... see it at first. We scheduled a technical interview over Zoom, and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  and sit in a big circle on the stage, underneath the red curtains we ... be a new direction, branching out from fantasy fiction. Speaking in front of strangers sounded cool but intimidating, and that was a long way

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022