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• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  skills to be mastered is simply too great to be able to figure it all out ... , find themselves in a place they never expected to be: the back of the ... than just the way something looks.  It shouldn't just be some aesthetic

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  it'd be a good idea to try to write a blog like this, when you could ... , and that i should be gone by the morning. so i left. and i didn't come ... 'd leave me behind. cj: yeah. yeah, i did. dan: that i wouldn't have to be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Embracing the Penguin Snowboarding Trip ft. Jayden

  

  . So what better way to embrace both of these downsides than to go ... continued to Amtrak (Green)[/caption] Wachusett happens to be the last stop ... Thrones and 2. somehow managing to traverse what feels like a tundra of a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 31, 2026
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  feelings tend to sneak into my experiences at MIT, but I think I've found little ways to fight them off at this point. But, back to IAP. I wanted ... activities rather than taking the month to rest. But it was a good busy, a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  back east toward the rest of campus and made our way to Story Time with ... the Ascend MAX TNT—a name which, by the way, is not something you should stamp all over a package to be sent  through an airport. (This was tested

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  program at MIT are only prepared to build one of those planes by the time ... capstone senior year NEET project. Along the way, students also get to engage ... class by going to this link: ovc.mit.edu/fye_course/. The more people are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  normal, everyday prose, I decided that it'd be far more amusing to do so in ... 're better off this way. So sit back, sing along to yourself, and enjoy. =P ... Despite being the middle of winter, on Friday the entire Boston area

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  to begin, we wiggled our way through the crowd and found a spot where ... to be with someone who thought she was beautiful, and not just ... this has turned out to be somewhat true in that I have never had a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  realize how many different and equally rich ways there are to experience MIT ... Co-written by Rima Das and Amber Velez Amber: One unique ... makerspaces, if you know where to look. The issue is, it’s difficult for any one

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  additional $80K). Play Labs is run by Bayview Labs and is being hosted by by ... by after my internship to watch the presentations. I missed ... way we make decisions by letting us visualize and explore data in VR

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  to or what to ask for. I started by asking one person… and they knew ... spend their days listening and thinking of innovative ways to support the ... solve my problems in ways I didn’t know they could be solved. For some

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  stitches. Gauging is a term used by crocheters to describe the planning that ... , either. There's many a terrible sweater to be crocheted at MIT.   ... . Before I came to Boston, I dedicated quite some time to ironing out the

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  what if something happens to one of my friends and I can’t be there ... essays, be a shoulder to lean on, be passionate about something, be curious ... Music to complement this post Tweet to complement this post Post

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  , I have a partner, to whom [annotation note="one-way ticket to wife ... is way healthier, and I don't just try to push my body until it breaks ... be that anchor for myself. I'm grateful to have been welcomed back to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  during-the-semester musical to be fun." Me: "Yeah, you're right. I won ... : "It's only an audition! It's not like I'm committing to be in the ... that - my semester is going to be horrible" e-mail to my very worried

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  uncertainty, and the field of probability came out of people finding ways to ... by k.c. green)[/caption] I don't hate math, but I've never ... amount of logic and reasoning. It's satisfying to see things line up with a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bloggers Wrapped 2019 aka i harvest everybodys data, my favorite pastime

  

  to them / Top song by them: BTS / 45 hours / "Boy with Luv ft. Halsey ... Nomad Favorite artist / Hours listened to them / Top song by them ... drama about him being a landlord prompted me to see what the music is like

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  lead to big highs, but I figured they’d be outweighed by even bigger lows ... way to that conclusion. And it is. But I think it feels so unintuitive because I originally expected my first semester to be incredibly rough

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  taking photos. It's supposed to be a graphical representation of an ... moving point charge before learning electrostatics? By the way, the problem ... -humored kvetchfest by remarking that I have nothing to complain about and that it took

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  . i still want to see MIT this way. i was also struck by this statement ... 's how we have the freedom to write honestly about what it's like to be an ... data. nobody believes that students should be able to do whatever they

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017