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• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  use of a dishwasher is the last frontier in an immigrant household, an indication of complete Americanization. The dishwasher is a rare kitchen ... beeps every 15 minutes once it is done running, to remind us that it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  is that there’s simply no kind of escapism like living inside someone ... arm’s breadth away is the perfect amount of distance for the human ... ’ve worked so hard to get to. In an audiobook? None of that is up to you. I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  musical theater. So what is it? Maybe it’s the writing, this undercurrent ... musicals have this structure where Act I is relatively normal and Act II ... musicals with conventional story structures have made me cry, too. Is it a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  today to confirm that I have lost my powers. MIT is infamous for humbling people, so when our[annotation note = "first is crazy I know, but a lot of ... introduce random concepts we would need for the rest of the class. Lecture is

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  Center, most of my summer is spent in Framingham, where: I go on my ... , Pikmin Bloom"]walk my boys[/annotation] the Commuter Rail is on its ... class, and so forth. The mission of the blogs is to help our students

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  the beautiful is one I can't pass on. [caption id="attachment_100807 ... tonight, and if my tracker is accurate, we should have a chance of seeing ... ']solar cycle.[/annotation] This is wild." "Sorry, but if you’re not an aurora

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  hello, after six years

  

  writing. this is not possible to stop, how change continues to happen. i ... -flying) animals. the ones that can't fly are still this type of animal. this is a ... the thought a good home in my body. one of these thoughts is the idea

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  don’t seem to like where the heat is at already — for the past three ... overnight. It is not yet close to the summers I’m used to, the August I used to run in. But it’s getting closer, and each uptick in temperature is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  way it fits me best. This is one of the pages I've made for myself ... to get ahead in my assignments because this upcoming week is so packed, but no amount of planning is immune to the inevitable forces of nature

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  Olympiad the summer after ninth grade. It’s easy to forget how smart he is—we’ve known each other forever, and he is my best friend, and when we talk, I don’t feel out of my depth. Chris is starting his PhD in the fall

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  district is confusing to navigate because a silly surveyor decided to align ... ongoing housing and homelessness crises. this is an expansive and very ... is fundamentally constrained by its position at the 7 mile x 7 mile tip

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

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  experiment with illustrated formats on the blogs. On the other hand, writing is ... general living habits have been improving. My sleep schedule right now is ... new club.  The biggest “calibration” on my mind right now is that I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  wanna graduate on time. The only problem is that there are so many cool ... cigarette. “What is that?” “I don’t know exactly,” I admitted. “Like ... , writing, is largely useless to humanity, so I want my day job to do some

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  is an unprecedented increase of 66% over last year, when we received 20,075 applications, and is far and away the most applications we have ever received ... what we do is more than a job, but a privilege and an honor. We are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  ). [annotation note = "The 'k' is a joke, albeit not a funny one. I was inspired by ... ."]Physicks[/annotation] How to actually use polar vectors! Basically this is the same thing as ... acceleration in terms of 𝛉 and r, which is a lot simpler than x and y if an

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  admissions, then all I can remind you is that success is not always a straight ... ’ll look back on this Pi Day and realize it all worked out okay. Here is the ... Chris, I hope you are doing well during this challenging time. My name is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  place is taking a new kind of energy. How is it time already?  In Catcher ... school he is about to leave, trying to feel some kind of good-bye: “I mean ... sense of good-bye just isn’t there. Or maybe it is and I’m just having

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  RAM, which is neat too. It’s also way lighter and feels nicer to carry ... 're not a tech person, right?" Arch, because the AUR is apparently the ... configuration is "the correct way to do things". After long self-reflection, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  been interrupted by the pandemic. However, despite this, now that it is summer in Cambridge, it is still true that: my neighbor's adorable and ... weightlifting (more on this later) it is time for those of you who might want to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  with certainty is that about two and a half months from now, our nation ... record scratch disruption is particularly emotional. I know, because 2020 ... ="attachment_53622" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] This is JoJo. She isn't usually

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020