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• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  anxious. For a little bit now, I’ve been taking stock of my anxiety levels at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a ... ’s much more helpful to ask Anxiety why it’s acting up instead of ignoring

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  screens of cooking asian dishes with korean subtitles. the waft of delicious ... 're familiar with another visit, and you've decided to get the worst out of the ... good idea. the broth is slightly clear and has a coat of oil on top. i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• 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 / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  favorite thing about MIT – the ski team! For those of you who don’t know, at MIT the month of January is not part of the normal school year. Instead ... prefer to spend the duration of IAP with the MIT Alpine Ski team, living in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  Hello everyone! The following was written by a couple friends of ... friend and as a friend of other ROTC members. Something interesting I realized at the end of fall semester was that actually, all the ROTC members

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• 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 ... interpretation of the GIRs, so please ignore them if you think I'm just being woozy ... overflow room) so a lot of people didn't have to go to class (humph*) - the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  made a comment, half-joking, something to the effect of "I can't wait to ... over time. I said I wasn't ambitious, anymore, that I had let go of that in favor of sticking with science, which, for me, was an accessible and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  This is the first half of this post and it was written March 5th ... into the void of the interwebs…also shamelessly quoting ourselves in same post that this quote comes from) Well we held our end of the promise, and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  answer those without your entire application in front of me, in the context of the overall applicant pool. That's why chances-related questions are simply impossible to answer outside of selection committee. To everyone who

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  one of my labmates has a friend from elementary school who was on the latest season of love on the spectrum. another labmate watched it and told ... . i've come to peace with a lot of the things that kept me up late at

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  Last Thanksgiving break, a few of my friends and I visited Acadia ... Airbnb months in advance, creating an itinerary of trails to hike, and even ... friends objected. “Don’t people drive on the left side of the street in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  As a resident of Simmons, one of the farthest dorms from [annotation note="east of Massachusetts Ave., where most of the academic buildings are"]Main Campus[/annotation], I spend a lot of time walking. But “a lot

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  hallway to climbing a rock wall on the side of a student-built wooden fort next to a 360-degree student-built gyroscope ride in the middle of one of our fields. I’ve seen students participate in a petting zoo in front of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  these women had no obvious dealbreakers that I knew of, so I asked him why he'd rejected all of them. "I really can't say," was his reply. "It's like, they were inputted into the neural network of my brain and the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  I'm taking 21W.744, The Art of Comic Book Writing, taught by Marjorie ... in-between of novels and movies. Novels allow for endless words -- descriptions and dialogue that can enhance our understanding of the world and the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  Hello! I have some new pandemic-flavored poems published as part of ... poem of mine I could find in Google Drive. It was my first-ever high ... from the smell of newly cut grass Tangy, sweet, like a fresh Saturday

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  . 1 trending series on Netflix right now, garnered a lot of attention ... they deserve. I was, of course, hyped to watch it since I've never seen a ... obviously a huge step for Indians in Hollywood, but...yeah, it has a lot of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  We watch a lot of cooking content. We really like making food ... Ghibli movies and Ratatouille), and of course, eating it. During a normal ... video of a recipe we like, we email the link to ourselves, and usually try

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  the idea of a conversation with a stranger or a big party event doesn ... common theme I've noticed is that a lot of this is self-imposed, that I ... I don't quite fit in. But it's become so much of a habit that I truly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  a similar version of the question, “Do you care about this life ... violence during my first year of high school? Can I write an essay about how ... then had it disbanded because of problematic school administrators? Do

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019