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• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  extremely self-conscious of everything I do, it was difficult for me to feel ... Tube videos. Monday, we crowded in Stud5 to study. After hours of studying, we ... realizing how much of a shitshow the movie was, we switched to Pitch Perfect

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  way. Like watching 6 episodes of the magic school bus. Like exfoliating ... wires to a telephone jack, talked about knitting a hat but had no clue how to actually do it, and video chatted with my grandparents in China

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  months ago, Brian moved out of LoTaD to start a master's in Oxford, and Victor '23 moved in to replace him. Brian and I spent a lot of time ... is a fear, the fear of coming back to something I once loved, and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  had to design the bricks ourselves and laser cut them out of cardboard ... the peaks of the edges have to be wider than the valleys, so that the ... -land without anything to tether me down to things that actually exist. So to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  Dear Members of the Class of 2022, It's been an absolute pleasure to ... around 4am, I sat down to finally write down all the thoughts and pieces of ... by the Class of 2021's struggles to adjust to the Institute. This post

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  can make your week fun to rid of all that anxiety! On Thanksgiving Eve ... three-part gory murder mystery to depictions of animal’s private lives ... clicking the “watch” button, but wanted to know the source of this wondrous

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  kind of creepy. The bar corresponding to what's currently going on with ... point of this is that...well, I'm hosed. So I'm going to stop writing this blog entry and get back to one of my two 20 page term papers. I will

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  another day of summer ♬ ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba ♬

  

  's trying to branch out of just English and Spanish music. I'm more than happy ... walk to Star Market to get a pint of ice cream and end up with two pints ... day for the past week, probably because of the abundance of natural

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  made the largest difference in terms of my day to day happiness it's not ... a few aspects of taking care of yourself we wish we had learned two years ago. MIT has its times of incredible stress and it's during those

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  point they're starting to believe I'm smuggling mass quantities of ... realsies! In the meanwhile, I'd love to answer any of your questions about junior year (most of which I did not blog), MISTI, where to stay for cheap

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  't learned any of the material that it covers, you have to go to lecture first ... with a weird moment of inertia, applying an impulse to some weird knobby ... !" "Guys, can you keep it down, I've got like 20 hours of work to do and only

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  phenomena (like my transition to college) into comfortingly simple sets of ... /25 (28624 steps) This was the second to last day of “Discover Mechanical ... FPOPs). In my FPOP, I got to see the wonders of MIT’s mechanical

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2016 Ring Delivery! MY RING IS SO PRETTY!

  

  , and afterwards a bunch of us went to Bova's Bakery to get Cannoli ... ! We even got to take a series of prom pictures! We also took ... things. After ring delivery, a bunch of us went to Bova's to get

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  freshman year due to a lack of motivation…or something. But I don’t think it ... to construct a bridge) -- [Getting started] I've got a variety of ... crazy if I had to work till 9 AM, alone. So a goal of this year is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  be famous? In what way?” to “Of all the people in your family, whose ... tied to mutual emotional vulnerability. In her reflections of applying ... beautiful words by my dear friend Amy F. '20. It's conclusions she's come to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Town Cambridge: university and city.

  

  Like MIT, Cambridge also gets its share of tourists and visitors. I must say though, Cambridge actually has pretty places to take pictures of ... figured I would take some pictures of places that are important to life here

  • by Cambridge
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  are a whole two months of MIT to blog about, where to start? So you ... perhaps that's why you'd like to come. What goes on here is nothing short of ... of them but there are only 24 hours in a day and you also have to get

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  Reaching for the STARS* *Small Town And Rural Students

  

  select group of 16 colleges and universities, including MIT, dedicated to ... to raise awareness about and facilitate opportunities for discovery of ... Today, (April 4, 2023), marks the public launch of the STARS (Small

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 4, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  So one of the unfortunate parts of graduating is that you actually have to pack up your life from the past four years.  No more of this, "I ... .  I tended to wear three different sets of rowing clothes, throw them on

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  from the conventional path of telling you what options are available to ... overflow room) so a lot of people didn't have to go to class (humph*) - the ... finding the relevant sections yourself. To take this as a sign of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008