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• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  one or this one? Craig: The symbol on the left is not a letter, sir ... Palace. My house is called Ducksberry. And (finally getting to the point ... is some ridiculous story beyond explanation. "Malkovich," I learned

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  that is tau, alongside a few anecdotes about tau, MIT, and myself c ... this is the post number i claim it was[/caption] why tau? Note: This ... needed to understand everything is calculus, but if you haven't taken that

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  lot. Boston is cold, gloomy, and (maybe because I'm just lazy) school started again! As promised: the continuation - 51. Stitch is wildly popular in Japan. There is usually very little mention of Lilo, however. 52

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There ... , where everything is absolute. A view of the world where I feel if I don ... scene follows some cliche plot line or a math problem where everything is

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  today it is warmer than it has been in a while, and i'm back in the ... witness itself is a kind of poetics, or poesis, which means making. [...] Or ... world. This is why attending to what we love, what we are astonished by

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

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  upcoming fall. And this is true: most of the classes I am taking are just ... might lead to burning out. This is just what my junior year has to be like. This is high school. --- Four years later at MIT, and here I am, in the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  This is a guest blog post by my dear friend (and first person I ever ... Graw’s “Truck Yeah” while trucker country is a fully fledged subgenre within ... country music. The freight train is a subject of particular fascination

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  point. And the point is that you should do things that are fun, even if ... someone, somewhere, out there, who is better. Chesterton, as in "Chesterton's fence" Chesterton, once wrote that If a thing is worth doing, it is worth

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  'm writing this post right now is the traditional, unceded territory of the ... toward indigenous people is something i'm not very familiar with, and ... people from their land, and hostility to the point of killing, is something

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  right now -- because zoom is, ah, revolting. It’s no one’s fault perhaps but god, this semester is not what we all wanted it to be. So all the ... . Because reading is great but I haven’t been writing, not as much as I’d like

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  closest friends is more fun than I could've imagined. We're all equal ... also work out together!! One of the guys I'm living with is in ROTC and ... love it!! Our large backyard area is really conducive to doing strenuous

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  family for going three weeks before replying to a text. ‘School is crazy!’ is always a good one- an honest and unquestionable summation of what it ... semester I realized how precarious it is to strike a balance between being a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events We’re Pumped For! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  CPW is a very exciting time and it's hard to believe that it's already been two years since ours! But CPW is honestly just as fun for undergrads here as it is for pre-frosh, so we are all just as hyped as you are

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  Is this what it's like to be an upperclassman and only take classes you enjoy? My schedule this semester is half Aero/Astro and half Comparative Media Studies (CMS): 16.35 is "Real-Time Systems and Software

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  students. Note, however, that BB&B is not the easiest destination from ... suggested boat test (which involves treading water for 10 minutes and is ... : “Technically, the glass is always full.” -- a casual wardrobe. This is optional

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  woman called out: “Please, will you help us? We need somebody who is very strong!” Building 14 is shaped like a square and has a square courtyard ... unsuccessfully to fasten it shut. The climbing wall is run by volunteer staff, who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  more that we haven't found yet. This is Revenge for yesterday. There was ... . The company is one of the big plusses of a summer research program. On-campus research opportunities abound, but the company is largely the same company

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  message of love! Is Madeline here?”—Madeline raised her hand—“Would you like ... that Professor Cheeseman is an absolutely fantastic person. His lab is ... him a small red bag containing what I assume is candy, said, “Happy

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  like this. When it's wet, warm, and kind of dark, when the forecast is ... being completely okay is pretty recent. The last few months were rough. I ... science at math is flimsy at best. I slept eight or nine hours a night in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  golf balls. (As of today, that is still the extent of my chemical ... Educational Counselor, a recent graduate who is currently enjoying sunny Berkeley: The number one thing is to be yourself. Take it seriously, but not

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012