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• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  ever taking extra time to do the problem again on my own. I ended up no ... studying, but if I wasn't learning it properly, I wouldn't do as well as the ... studied the nights before for many hours, doing review problems and re

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  Period--the month of January where students can do as they please (take a class, do research, go abroad, take a long winter break, etc. etc ... competitive, we thought it would be fun to do something where we could actively

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  : Who would do the grueling five-hour drive from Boston to Maine ... felt that doing my road test in Manhattan would be much worse. With that ... driving experience, I still needed to get a learner's permit before doing my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  burnt by the burn-out of too much work to do and I steer clear at the ... thought. If I really buckled down it would be hard, but I'd be able to do it ... the website and what do I find? The band is on tour. And their first

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  Known School of Three Letters 🎓 What I miss Do you know what I really ... rest or do fun things. When you become an Old Person and leave school ... into trouble. I also can't read stuff when I am driving, but I can do

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  still on campus, however, we do have two things to help us cope—✨the power ... massive group meals! My friends and I are actually planning to do a big ... —hey, we should probably make a list of ingredients! But wait. We couldn’t do

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  , accountable way. This is a good thing to do."]discussing all the things we didn ... sexual appeal to offer them do they finally treat me as one of them. That I ... image in my head with the person before me. I don't quite know what to do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  much work and far too little desire to do it. I put on the largest shirt ... turns out, it is very hard to do many of these things, and I worry that I ... everything now - who am I? What do I care about? What do I want out of my

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  shows i never would’ve started otherwise - for instance, i do not have the ... ideas together, and i do not give them as much care as they deserve ... better technique. but i think improvements in technique alone do not

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  I officially graduated from MIT last year, but I’m still here, doing ... campus, taking classes and doing research. How does it feel? I don’t know ... like I always do, on my way from something or other to something else

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  dollars. "Yes," he said. "Because the amount of good I can do in my lifetime ... I can do in my lifetime is worth ten billion dollars, but I care about ... learned to do in the last several years. Growing up, I didn't approach my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  resolved to do at least one film screening before graduation. I was lucky ... ://evergreenmuseum.wordpress.com/tag/imax/[/caption] They do this so that they don’t need projectionists to handle changeovers ... ="aligncenter" width="226"] "Am I doing it right?"[/caption] Woah, slow down there

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  the border, stayed at an AirBnB, and spent the weekend doing very ... rest of us, left with nothing else to do, ended up standing at the stage ... us “how do you get into the calm headspace for music outside of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  This summer, living alone has given me the immense freedom to do ... Dungeons and Dragons. For those of you who do not know, Dungeons and Dragons ... characters, the intricate backstories that all of them hold. But not only do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  academic leave because I wasn't doing any work, I couldn’t do any work. I ... can still love what I do, but MIT often destroys the spark of excitement ... spring semester, I thought again that I could do it all—the classes, the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  questions that thinly concealed my stress. “Do you think he was able to find ... inside someone’s bedroom?” “Do you think he’ll be okay taking the T?” The ... East Asian Studies there and now he’s doing a PhD in number theory at

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  only been half an hour. "Think like an old person?" I asked. "What do ... month. On Thursday I got around to doing an experiment I've always wanted ... do it now. I blocked the whole day out of my calendar and spent the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  This is my third year doing this; see the 2019 post and the 2020 post ... doing linguistics, so maybe I'll feel guilty enough to take actual ... piece despite being published in 1948. “They do say,” Mr. Adams said to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  doesn't make sense to me since pushing "newbies" to do more is what helps ... could be doing more, and that I was making the wrong decision by half ... in RTA would give me clarity on what I want to do for my last three

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  that seems to scream "I don't know what I'm doing." But really that has ... little and doing the same for them."]big,[/annotation] ehua, and meeting ... of these specific people who do not and would not know me. It was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021