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• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  empirically speaking it seems like i’m equally good at picking up both kinds of ... awareness that i have more stories left to hear than hours left at mit has made me sad. at the same time, i know this is a futile quest anyway; even

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  where all my closest friends were at an arms length. going out to dinner ... don't have anything left at the end of the year. it sucks. it also ... next year? four years feels like nothing at all, but so much has

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  "]metaphorical.[/annotation] Three: get people laughing—or, at the very least, taking themselves less seriously—if at all possible. My current favorite activity that fits this ... : "Don't look at any pictures of X or the actual, real-life X. Then, draw X

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  audience, and so on. i have a bad habit where i tend to assume at first that ... twenty years to arrive at the realization; guilty because i wondered if me ... ’t affect me directly, at the very least it’ll make for more interesting

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  at Fusion for a while, then stared at a Canvas tab, and switched back ... at open lab time during the week. I had taken on less work the first ... water"]waterjet.[/annotation] I set up at the CNC. I asked for some

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  met in person at MIT post-CPW) Kylee C. '23. Few things on God ... ’d like to look in particular at the cultural role of passenger trains in ... routes I mentioned at the beginning: Atlanta, Savannah, and New Orleans

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  : while at the 'tvte I was slightly worried if things would change with ... at McCormick" (yes) and "What would my ID say" (Paige) occupied my mind ... part though, I've just been able to exist at MIT without needing to worry

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  shaping collective knowledge. Everybody looks at Wikipedia, it has great SEO ... , and he studied computer science and mathematics at MIT too. Of course ... ’ve tugged at my subconscious: in 21, a heist film about the MIT Blackjack Team

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] GetSimmons! Writing is hard, so here's a video game instead

  

  to Threes by Asher Vollmer. You can also play the game at the original

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  attendance. My attendance at what, I did not know. At 7 pm yesterday, we ... presidency? I was extremely excited to find out. I showed up at the Welcome Center this morning at 9.45 am sharp, the arrival time for "press planning

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  really like topics that are based in math, or at least involve a good ... classes I've ever taken at once. 6.1200 - Mathematics for Computer Science ... , I really like what I'm learning! I'm not great at it, but it

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  first few days at MIT in the sea of faces and blur of names, hoping to ... into familiar faces everywhere at [annotation note="REX stands for ... events for first-years to get an idea of their cultures. at the end of REX

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  , the other three getting master's degrees at MIT. Tomorrow is ... is actually very good, starting at Massachusetts minimum wage of $14 ... city I love at the school I love. Come this time next year, I probably

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  if I ever encountered a stormy sea at MIT, which I often do, I could ... behind it. I don't like the blog at all. I take some pride in saying this ... . Nothing is Worth Getting Sick. The first time I got sick at MIT, I caught

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  at our house.   [caption id="attachment_74563" align ... 't living in the house at the time, but there were about four WILG members ... [/caption] Which they forwarded to the Public Records Officer at City Hall. A few

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  probably because the excitement of being at a new place never got replaced with the overwhelming realization of being at that new place before that ... wouldn’t deserve coming. i wouldn’t deserve being at one place when my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Money

  ew taxes the new zealand government owes me money

  

  . Taxes are often withheld at a higher rate than what you actually need to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  , Sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when I got up this ... cook is to add things until you feel the universe screaming at you to ... the time; I stare despairingly at my ceiling for another 14.82% of the

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  sad about no food Probably at some point during 5.12 While ... ) Make some kind of scrapbook/album of your time at MIT Travel and eat ... Take Off - September 6, 2017 I've Been Staring At The Edge of The

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  lifetime of 19 years. In honor of the passing of 1000 days, I looked at the ... gotten back from summer camp at MIT, and I was just starting to think about ... then; I am at MIT, and I am more happy than anxious. And, although these

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021