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• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  Killian court with my East Campus compatriots by my side. I’m smiling, I’m laughing, I’m relishing a new, intoxicating sense of freedom that I’ve never known before. I move to attack a Simmons resident. As he swings his pool

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  : An informative diagram that I doodled Here’s a list of all the books I’ve read in college so far (I might be forgetting a few, but this is most of ... ! Suggestions welcome--I’d actually like to have way more than 10 books, maybe

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  Aaand… Semester #3 is done! I’m on the plane back home, music ... . Life’s entropy continues to increase. It’s a paradox: the more time I spend exploring life, the less I know what to do with said life. My career

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  "I think that I could make a black hole," Carl says. I raise an ... goes off, his hands come apart, and when he beams I notice that he's missing one of his front teeth. The typical eight-year-old's look. "I'd just

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  Last Friday afternoon, I - like many of you - learned of the awful ... Newtown, CT. I got home that night, ready to study for the final that I just ... the phone that night. "I'm about to watch a movie," he hastily answered

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  Kevin Rustagi '11 is a designer, entrepreneur, and musician whom I ... . I asked Kevin to share some of his thoughts on his MIT journey: how it ... . MIT is an extremely fascinating place. I think most would agree. But, as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  inevitably reach for a whiteboard marker, which is why I've never seen a blank ... ORGO! YOU SHOULD ASK ME MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT ORGO!!!! I LOVE HELPING PEOPLE WITH ORGO!!!!" I guess Particularly Enthusiastic Chemist didn

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

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  Today I sprinted down Massachusetts Avenue in a noontime spritz of ... delivered to me a message from a high school friend, querying how much I liked MIT. I started to write a real answer but then realized that my laundry

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  A few weeks ago, I was reading Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney and someone asked me what it was about. I said that I wasn't sure, but if I had to guess, it seemed to be about an affair but not the usual

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  : As a meche always looking to discover new makerspaces, I was so happy ... designing it? Rima: If there’s one thing I know about MIT is that it ... different nooks and crannies that become home to different groups. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  admissions.  Even though I have observed many changes, including the transition ... -necessitated innovations like the now ubiquitous interactive virtual information sessions, I ... and/or college counselor) I have always tried to provide the type of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  The weird thing about quarantine is that I'm actually being better about staying in touch with my friends than I was when I was while I was at MIT...and surrounded by my friends. I attribute this to general

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  I really like learning languages. And MIT has been a really good place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it wasn't really something I expected to continue in earnest in college

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  As some of you may know, I am majoring in math and economics. Michelle has already written a lovely post about Course 14 (economics); I ... math, and math with computer science. I do pure math, which will be the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  On a weekday, I meet my friend Alberto H. ‘17, who I haven’t seen in ... . I ask him how his life’s been lately. He pulls out his cellphone, and ... out of the dining hall, I stop to get some coffee and he chats with a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  Hello! One of the first things I wrote about as a staff blogger was ... passed since that blog post and I’d like to give you an update. When I last checked in, I was just settling into my new life in Cambridge, MA

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  "I've been tooling all night."  "I'm so hosed."  "IHTFP."  "I just ... , you should.  It's a superb piece of journalism). I think these two ... perceptions can't possibly be correct. I'm just a freshman.  I don't have years

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  quickly. Case in point: in the past two and a half years, I've learned the ... challenging semester yet. As a double major in Course 6-7 and 9, I'm taking the ... notoriously tedious and time-consuming. It relies on Java, which I haven

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Need help choosing a MISTI program? MIT-Germany alum Nina Sinatra advises incoming interns to keep an open mind

  

  an Italian family and speaking fluent Spanish, I have often been asked why I chose MISTI Germany over other country programs. While I did consider the Spain and Mexico programs at first, I ended up choosing Germany

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  I have known for some time that my approach to things can be unconventional.  You don't have to look any further than how I parent to really get ... vegetables, and then suggesting that I might send the evidence of his misdeeds

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011