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• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  , almost like my innate daftness is an excuse for not being able to learn. In ... to learn for the test. For an AP. For a final. The singular goal was to pass. And this was good enough for high school. This was enough to get

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  actually a vampire and doesn't show up on film, so I had to stand in for her ... . Anyway, beyond Ruth's most brilliant clue (saved for posterity in Mitra ... restaurant for Cuban food if you happen to be in New York; it's a little pricey

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  In his 2005 commencement address to the graduates and assembled ... . How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then ... getting applicants to share information and insights about their lives in

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  over the summer that I lived in Evan T. 19's room, where he installed chalkboards on one of his walls. (I talk about this more in the whiteboard post.) If we were in the same room, I would tell you that I could teach you

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  decision-conscious, whether that be congratulating those who got in or ... time and sometimes there are not enough words in the world to comfort rejection or the long waiting period in between. But do know that you are

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  In the past few months, communication with each other has been sparse ... occasion, I’ve used Zoom or FaceTime to get a sense of realness in my ... . Here in Cambridge, where masks are now required outside, casual

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  I took part in HackMIT last year, and it was a great deal of fun! I ... APIs, i.e. VR headsets, fitness bands, IoT devices, APIs for delivery ... : some cool examples are headphone-assisted navigation for the blind, blood

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  class that I wake up thinking about and work late into the night for, not ... finding people who share my passion for design - who see it as so much more ... about in my spare time appear in class. It's seeing my favorite

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  experienced in my always interesting (if occasionally miserable) time trudging ... background: MIT apparently leads the pack of Ivy+ institutions in Facebook page ... they're whining about is that in 2006, the writer of Doonesbury put up a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  's nerd-speak for inconsistencies in high temperature superconductors. If ... "Blowing up the alamo into pieces then hiding out in the mountains", I admire ... this summer and I'm currently looking for an apartment somewhere near the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE LAZY: You, email me, picture of you ... of a big deal- last I checked, 50% of men are in frats, and a little less than 25% of women are in sororities (April 26 through May 2, in case

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  This afternoon, as I was walking past the Center for Ultracold Atoms ... in order to obtain a pair of shoes on a tax holiday (Columbus would ... someone in our wide, mysterious world was once compelled to design a pair of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  to walk rush from my 6.336 lecture in 10-250 to the 6.131 lecture in 34 ... mentioned it before in her blog). Last spring I was the Membership Vice President, or more colloquially, the Mommy. As Mommy, I was in charge of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  reading one of the eight stories in her new book, Unaccustomed Earth, for ... ) spent this evening at MIT. Though she was born in London and raised in Rhode Island, Lahiri spent some of her childhood in Boston and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  What I Have Learned From The Early Decision Process At MIT Here are some of the things that impressed me.

  

  covered that. So let's get to the meat of the matter (or for you vegans out ... of clubs in school to activities that help to relieve human suffering ... many students showing so much compassion for their fellow man. The

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading ... comfortable enough to actually fall asleep. A fifteen-minute nap in Hayden can ... Discovered About Myself Freshman Year... 1. There is no substitute for sleep

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  will at least consider, just for a moment, taking a gap year (read on for ... 3-108 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 We will grant a deferral for almost any ... members of the Class of 2011 are deferring to spend a year in Israel, others

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  work I’ve accomplished tonight:  I CADed up this piece for my robot in ... Hallo!  My friend, Caleb M. ‘27 and I are currently in the MIT ... assignment for 2.007, which was due Sunday night at Midnight. I’ll explain more

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  there's flames in the background! For no reason! Prompt: "Where are you ... This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... wheels on them so you can roll them out into the lobby for visitors to see

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  In our last post, we mentioned that we were next going to blog about ... it is *top secret* stuff for now. So, look out for that post around mid ... useful if you're looking for some distractions (specifically if you're a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018