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• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  ready to clean months of caked-on food. I abhor washing dishes in our tiny sink, where more water ends up on your clothes and the counter than on ... college I realized that the dishwasher is on a long list of things that make

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  encouraged me to work on projects that interested me, even if they were ... roommates was also on campus for IAP, so we cooked a bit together. We made quesadillas with the stove turned on all the way — inadvisable, but much more

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  time dilation to the Infinite, and beyond

  

  stuck with me: things look different depending on your perspective. Taken ... a physics problem on time dilation. It’s very easy to feel windswept ... spontaneous things, like watching Sunday football on the third floor of Maseeh

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  is posted on Monday, September 22nd, 2025 at 2:19 PM Eastern Time ... now, I have gone to sleep with a gentle tap on my window As the rain ... channels. Which makes for a fun game on my bike, as I dash between puddles

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  't really my goal. All I wanted was to make somebody on the judges' panel ... week later I spent a part of it on GTA IV. I really want to know what the ... personal college experience, but every attempt ends up going on and on about

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  work on a simulated robotic arm that can detect and stack cups into a ... Tom Cruise and wrote a 20-page script based on it. The final script is about an alien who crash-landed on Earth, and disguised himself as a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  responsible for the bad quality on half of these pictures. Blame the tech, not ... -up. A+ for effort, but idk if anyone has actually taken photos on this ... on behalf of the Boston Parks and Rec."]Santa[/annotation] were brought

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever broken records, halloween practice, and senior day!

  

  On Wednesday, we had our second to last game of the regular season ... someone who has been on the soccer team since freshman year, Senior Day has ... gorged ourselves on cake and Chipotle with our families and friends and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there ... with Zimi in quantum, spending inordinate times working on relativity and ... culture of MIT dorms and how they foster a community rely on people who make

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  characters, brushed up on Japanese geography, and drilled myself on the grammar ... drilled on the differences between Japanese and English spoken word. We then ... windows on the first floor. The windows face the river, and the infinite

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  my days are filled with quiet days on a lake, inter-planetary battles ... sparkling and buoyant. I want to find that feeling on whatever of the one ... parents were going to move me in my freshman year, I sat on the brick steps

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  living with your friends, being able to just walk down the hall, knock on ... "][/annotation] i miss the tower of plushies on the beanbag. i miss that there would ... note="one of the largest lecture halls on campus"]26-100.[/annotation] i

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  ’s kind of crazy how four years ago on this exact day, I was deferred from ... Common App essay, but more focused on how your past academic experiences ... departmental faculty to read and make decisions on"]faculty readers

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  this year. Good on them. Ceri listened to "Here Comes a Thought" from ... the numbers on this one. Good job Andi, you explorer you.  Top Genres ... but mellow enough that you can tune it out and focus on work.] Here's a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  ! I love trampolines. I can’t do flips or anything particularly cool on ... will randomly send me of little me and my cousins on our trampoline ... camera, but on my turn I just rolled around and flopped on the floor. Not

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  didn't spend writing i spent eating dinner with friends! on tuesday ... , the last time i ate steak might be back in the philippines? on ... soon. on thursday night, i ate dinner at five spices house, a sichuan

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  if I was going to go on some grand tour. I only ended up going to like ... a great time! [You can click on the pics below to enlarge them ... 't have any pics saved on my phone. I finally got those pics to her

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  want on campus at any time, and i did not realize how unusual this was ... transition from being at one of the greatest intellectual hubs on the planet to ... another possible answer is to leave school but to not move on. my friend

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  ...[/caption] “Come on, dude, just try some. All the smart kids are reading it ... illustrations of the common feral pigeon on the page. I’d never realized the ... ."]brown, red, gray, and white pigeons[/annotation] flocking together on city

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  was back on a plane to Massachusetts for the beginning of IAP. People ... that go on over IAP, but there's just far too many. I tried to write down ... that went on at the same time. Here's a compilation of the ones I can

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023