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• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  how realistic this is, but I really want to start emphasizing healthy ... is...probably not good. I am going to fix that. If you have book ... ) and realized I've only been to one (1) musical in my whole life. This is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  . Some weeks, there is a lot of work to do and at times, people (students and real adults) can be hard to deal with, especially since it is tricky ... of email, but we wanted it to have a little bit more charm. A little

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  Engineering -- so it is possible to switch fields. And it also is possible to ... . Part of growing up is knowing when it's time to part ways with things ... . I'm not going to lie and say it's a cakewalk. MIT is challenging

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  You know you’re hosed when it takes you a week after classes start to ... , it looks more like this because who even goes to all of their classes ... ’re scratching your head and wondering how exactly MIT is allowing me to take this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  about it and bought the shirt and skirt. I'll figure out what to do about shoes later - is it acceptable to wear shiny black combat boots (my usual ... me in my ignorance, it would be a major fashion faux pas to wear this

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  if you go to the cheapest college and then find out that it is not the ... wouldn’t be helping anyone out. Your goal is not to ATTEND a college, it is ... college search process. She is the first in her family to attend college and

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  next to guilt is also relief. It’s COVID so now I have an excuse for ... ’m 24 and sitting down and playing games is something I look forward to ... guilty about when it brings me joy. I learn to value time to decompress

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  plane taking off from JFK when it finally hits me: I’m going to a ... , MISTI has opened my eyes to new technology and new cultures, and it has ... : Carmeuse   Since my freshman year, I have seriously wanted to

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  comprehension that it was indistinguishable from magic. that turned out to be a ... your choice (anything is fine as long as it has an important component whose width is less than 10 nanometers). my group chose to make tandem

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... nicely for it.  I also met my wife thanks to MIT, when we both lived in DC ... feels until it happens to you.  So while you shouldn’t tolerate bad

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  same direction, then the atom is at a higher energy level than if one is ... "flip" direction - and if it flips, then tiny packets of energy are released, with a magnitude corresponding to 21cm radiation. Ta-da! This is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do i have unsolicited tips for you

  

  students acclimate to MIT. It was a fun, high-energy job. Every OL was ... , but it’s largely written with first years in mind. This is in no way a ... less as a “how to do MIT” and more like a “here is a hodgepodge of advice

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  , as a described in that post, that it's possible to overtrain both body ... thing I wanted. The pathway to recovery is not always so straight and manageable. A lot of healing is out of your hands. It takes time and patience

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  back to sleep without even thinking. eventually, though, it's 9:30 and i ... sentences into a story about how i was late to class and it's bad. well ... note="i left next house at 9:50, it takes about 15 minutes to get to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  doing homework. What do you have to show for it? What monumental task will ... thesis. The class is designed to be 1/3 thesis writers anonymous, 1 ... past summer on the Big Island of Hawaii and is continuing it from his lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  like using physical agendas more. For one, it’s fun to buy a new one each ... a pair of awesome Steven Universe socks! It adds to my steven-universe-is ... agendas is because I like to very excessively cross out tasks as soon as

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  built a renewable energy device and an online platform for the monks to ... person ready to have such an influence? Or is utilizing the power of the internet more like giving nuclear codes to children? Lou is now channeling

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  . But instead of the first 10 (decimal is so ordinary!), I decided to provide the first 10 base 16, since hex is the way to go. 0x0. Lonestar ... is a band I'm going to have to explain to my kids so they can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  effect? i think that it is useful to learn things, otherwise i'd drop out of college! i think it is useful to pursue things for the sake of ... . this is the starting hand size, subject to mulligans, and the maximum

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  then have to clean it up, and even just buying all the ingredients can ... realllllllly wanted to try it. The main ingredient is "San Marzano tomatoes ... good bread to put it on. The way the strong, familiar blueberry taste is

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019