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• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  next 4 years? If the answers to all of the above is "yes!" then you're ... classes for you to easily fill up your eight semesters here. 1113213211. If ... means that you have more room to shine and stand out amongst your peers

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  homemade dinners without fearing that you accidentally poisoned your own food ... hugging an overstuffed sandwich that your doctor (the one who told you to ... , along with a lithosphere of Youtube-and-Wikipedia dressing, hold your life

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  along with it. That's right, your comments actually affect what happens in ... your command. *goes to cross bridge* Um, crap, no sidewalk or bike lane ... thing about step by step directions instead of a map, one mistake and you're

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  blogs, at CPW, on Facebook...etc., and as you make your final decisions, good luck and best wishes to your final choice. Like what Paul said ... ESP out when you're on campus! You'll be surprised at how much you can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  introduce myself to them, and they say, "Oh, you're not an undergrad, right ... see a movie at noon. The e-mail concluded, probably half-jokingly, "You're ... from me. Hokay, so HASS papers are important. But unless you're planning

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  's very easy to project a very linear path for your life or your experience ... make sure you end up where you a priori predict your end point. While ... there exist opportunities you may have never encountered in your life, it

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  to think of not on its own, but in contrast. If you’re in your room, that’s just being alone. If you’re walking through a crowded subway station, there’s just lots of people. But if you’re surrounded by people who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  your highest-level cognitive processes work properly, and these are probably the first ones to go when your brain begins to deteriorate. i wonder ... humanity desperately needs to attempt. that way, you can live with your

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  checking if it’s the right bandsaw for the material you’re cutting, you turn ... , but you don’t know who your teammates are. You’re trying to figure out either who’s on your team, or what the other team’s word is. If you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  of the week. Me: You're not gonna mention ZBT? R: What is there to ... here is okay. But, but the bottom is far, far worse. You're gonna throw ... added something but then immediately retracted it.] Me: You're done. This

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  yourself before you're pulled out of your seat into a three hour hullabaloo ... off of your feet and gently drop you a few steps ahead. And even if it ... life interesting. I needed a reminder of that. Raise Your Glass To

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  will spend on the rest of your week's meals). This means the Pilot 2021 ... remainder of your weekly meals. So you’ll have to shop/budget/plan on your own and cook at least 7 meals outside of that. If your parents are worried

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  Of Brain: "You got your fix during IAP, in Hack Punt Tool! AND it was a ... during-the-semester musical to be fun." Me: "Yeah, you're right. I won ... Man With A Gun" from Annie Get Your Gun, and left. On March 7, I got

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

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  blogosphere, rest assured you’re in the right place. It is Elizabeth here. There ... . What you’re looking at is a screenshot from Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo & ... -that-other-actress-whose-name-I-don’t-remember”). And what you’re reading is an assignment for 21L.004 (Reading Poetry

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  commencement they make you give them your cap and gown, which they proceed to shake. They then check you for any visible bulges. If you’re clean then you get to put your gown on and wait to graduate. I found about a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  mutants, but you can't (because they are inviable). Your boss challenges you ... your construct? That's the kind of thing that can't be solved by ... anything is definitely harder if English isn't your first language. I'm not

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  success and efficiency. But when you hide away your sense of self to purely ... dissolve, and your perception is enhanced. This is flow, like Arjuna focusing ... pushing you straight forward and your legs are walking onwards and your eyes

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  you mess up, you’re screwed, no matter what. Mix that with high achiever ... survival, whatever you’re trying to survive against. If you don’t hit that significantly above-average point, you're so screwed. You’re meat. For whatever

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  started to get shin splints, which, scientifically speaking, is when your ... weightlifting, everything hurts. That's good. Pain is weakness leaving your body ... pinching the top of the udder with your thumb and forefinger, then curling

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  information into your brain using these mediums that are not conducive to your ... classes is that in an environment where you're supposed to be learning ... disheartening, when it happens at school, a place where you're supposed to be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020