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• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  , I drew a lot of maps on paper, cross-streets and exits labelled. I ... my pocket. Both my hands were occupied holding the rest of me aloft, so I could only watch as my phone tumbled down, down, and crashed on the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  lot more time on my hands than I was used to. I went to one of those ... time on fifth west, and am nervously anticipating the thrill of new ... touch, old-school; a bang of thunder on the west horizon, hair and wind

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  -one conversation with him. Apparently not. Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago ... So...remember that time, way back at the end of first semester, when I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  than the 12 from last year, the Class of 2010. For more information on ... of the MIT Map on the inside of the ring. The biggest addition to the ... reflect '11!) Finally, our class shank features Athena, the goddess of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  "] my sketch of the gorgeous Kazan Cathedral in St Petersburg, featuring ... It’s almost the end of 2020, which is terrifying. And hopeful, of ... year just flew by in a weird sort of emptiness. It didn’t, of course. I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  would pick me up on the other side. Of course, I'm a worrier, and I got ... dissociated. Was I really bringing boxes full of stuff across Niagara Falls on ... -crossing passenger bridge with all my possessions on a hand cart. *cliche mid-00s kids

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  everything else is fast asleep, out of distraction's way. I still have to do ... . You see, I'm probably one of the least academically swamped students on ... terra firma. I am acutely aware of the world on the outside, because

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  .) LSC GUY: Hello, and on behalf of LSC, thank you for coming to this free ... Tonight LSC hosted a pretty exciting event - a screening of a few ... Darth Vaders up on the stage at 26-100, so there was a pretty sizable

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  first name of disputed etymology, like most Roman first names, but thought ... check on him. There would be some bubbles. I would add flour and water ... more bubbles. But, he never rose! I read so many articles on sourdough

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  of where you are on your spiritual journey, come and pose your hard ... published on 1/23 One of the speakers wrote on the board, "Is there purpose ... , because there are about a million events going on every day. I've been

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  . The biggest tree on the Courtyard at the end of the infinite. These ... know I will suffer otherwise. I’m more on top of my PSETs than you are ... perpetual state of spatial lostness. In his words, “location just isn

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  meaning to read for ages: On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the ... place on the face of the earth, so I was a pretty happy camper. There ... watch a lot of TV is highly dependent on whether or not you watched a lot

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  it on and off when you need to. I used it for two of the rooms in the ... variation on Madeline's motif. The rest of the track just plays with this riff ... . Celeste tackles the difficult topic of mental illness. Early on in the game

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  .[/annotation]    I HAVE BEEN SIMMERING. BUZZING. WAITING ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT ... pause on the world to let the emotions and struggles of a character ... of it. My first Broadway Rave was on February 18th, 2023, thanks to an

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  concepts of damped harmonic motion and centripetal forces, which is to say we swung around and spun each other very fast. The tire swing reminded me of ... Harvard, where there was a tire swing on a tree. We laid aside our physics

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  watershed moments of your life where you look back on, and say, "Well, if I ... "At the core of many of his stories was a distinction between success ... never hit that kind of mileage before. In Chinese, we say "people beyond

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  from the University of Minnesota, that humans swim equally fast in syrup ... 24/7 speeches on animal morphology, primate locomotion, the purpose of ... in heaven. Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of attending the Ig Nobel

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  of free time on campus. For some background, we are 100% self ... of my favorite periods of time on campus. I liked working full-time on ... pretty much lived off of avocado toast in the morning and Maseeh dining for

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  , instead of just returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on ... ;summiting the highest peak on each of the seven continents. Some of you who ... will at least consider, just for a moment, taking a gap year (read on for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  many people can say they’re on a first name basis with some of MIT’s most ... them all weekend in favor of rush burgers. I sat next to my parents on ... attention to the rest of the panel. Fast forward a bit, that panel influenced

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017