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• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred ... wreckage. It commands our attention, and for good reason. We have to survive ... time at MIT ticks closer and closer to an end (for real this time, for my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  MIT Mystery Hunt was, and what it was like. Since the youth yearn for ... facing up: For those of you who haven't been to campus before, that ... names, became one of the core people running our tech stack for puzzle

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  ’ll delight in for the rest of my life, probably in part because many of my ... over again among us. I am so grateful for this.  When I think about my ... architecture major plotting to become a writer), I went into journalism for

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  For the integrity of alumposting, I'm pasting Daniel's bio from 2009 (when he last blogged for MIT Admissions) as a brief intro: Daniel is the ... industry, including stints on "all three sides of the fence" -- working for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  note: i wrote this as a project for #BlogstonCommons, which was a ... lowkey deep post about conversations with friends and meals as a method for ... GET TO HEAR WHAT I'VE BEEN HAVING FOR DINNER RECENTLY AND WHAT I DO OVER

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  the Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building) are finally open! For those ... for music students who played one too many wrong notes during a ...  as the rehearsal space for Rambax (MIT’s Senegalese drum ensemble) and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  . part of this was because i was not walking in the best way, for several ... first and roll over to the front of the foot. this is still true (for most people at least, now that i am old i realize body facts are never true for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  aside for fluffy / aesthetic stuff like poetry, even if STEM stuff is ... felt like there was a search for patterns I really enjoyed there. It was ... under the rug, but many people also manage to balance a passion for

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  for crashing into the moon."]hard-landed[/annotation], their success in ... Class of 2022 that is doing her masters at MIT for Manufacturing, was ... for two summers when I was a kid), but I would usually always stay in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  minutes for me to have the misfortune of using a Bevi machine. (The reason ... , so I always feel like Velma from Scooby-Doo fumbling around for her glasses when I try pouring myself a drink using it.) I could go on for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  current world is not good enough, and we need to strive for change, and we ... only chunk of our existence that has not yet been determined for us. I ... platitudes about the future, except that they allow for laziness through

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  from something I know is good for me, but I know it is not what I need ... was 14. I haven't been alone in life for longer than three months in this time and have relied on some partner as an anchor for these past

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  tanked my mood for the day. These classes were exactly aligned with my ... rendered most of them inaccessible for almost two years anyways. But alas ... later for my 9 am class on the first day of classes. I was beyond tired

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  the trip; I have some plans for the layover at Union Station, but we ... good at sleeping on them."]spent my entire life training for this moment,[/annotation] or because my standards for “slept well” are incredibly low. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  for that class was to  "Make An Agent." For this project, you must make ... either some social bot, tool, or dataset + visualization for the project. I opted for a dataset + viz. The semester prior (Fall 2021), I had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  was expecting. "Um . . ." I wavered. I hadn't prepared for this ... . Well, first I lowballed myself. The suggestion I had given was too low for my ... my reservations—I thought it was bad form for them to ask me how much I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Concert / The View

  

  LOT. Just as you would wait at Disneyland for two and a half hours to ride on Space Mountain, I wait for 8-12 hours to get front row at a ... nothing they could do, so I luckily found replacement pit tickets for $80

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  in a crowded coffee shop for a few hours. Conclusion: As expected ... of Cambridge St. were blocked off for vendors to grill and smoke their ... protein to get my first strict pull-up, so we split a ticket for sampling 10

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  i’ve known for a while that i’m a pretty awful conversationalist. my ... ask me questions i often pause for a while to think before giving a badly formed answer. for the longest time i wondered if this was because i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  really be? I miss my old self. I miss sitting and reading for pleasure. I miss spontaneous trips to diners at 3am. I miss feeling excited for the ... other and tower over me, daring me to shirk them, just for a little. See

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022