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• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  -five or thirty people. By the way, all of these observations are made with ... other schools, but here are some of the approaches I’ve developed from my ... of using my entire skill set instead of choosing between STEM and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  selection of artwork, including pieces by well-established artists such as ... free pizza, and I’ve spent three of the past seven evenings at Harvard ... blogger; this post is an introduction. I’m coming off the levity of the best

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  single list of coordinates by connecting them with lines: I also wanted ... advisor exclaimed as he looked over my registration at the start of the ... reach the bottom of the screen. I chose Guitar Hero for this project

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  post up by tonight, and though i just started writing this post i ... ! that's the least number of classes i've ever taken in mit, and the least number of classes i can take while maintaining full-time status, which is a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  't have nearly as many hugs, spontaneous bursts of song, or sunbutter ... believed you if you had told me that in one week, a single group of college ... the overwhelming satisfaction of playing Capture the Flag, dancing with

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  blink of the eye really in the scheme of things, back across the years ... , depending on how you look at it. I was 8 and lived on the outskirts of one of ... building to connect the major cities of Sichuan, but I couldn't have been

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  range of people, with a similarly broad array of interests, passions, and ... opinion, this diversity is one of MIT's greatest strengths. Although I could probably fill an entire entry about the incredible variety of people I've met

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  Well, it's been quite a week of spring break adventures! I basically ... on Tuesday night. I spent the rest of the week showing her how the real ... seniors all made fun of me and my blog, which makes them so uncool. Tsk tsk

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  -time photography, and holds the distinction as one of the greatest think tanks in the world. You would think that access to millions of dollars of lab space and ... privilege is mostly a result of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  group of [annotation note="all junior, sophomore, and freshmen bombers (members of burton third)"]friends:[/annotation] Miami, Puerto Rico, Spain ... flights weren't very expensive. as a plus, hundreds of other MIT students

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  're sinking, and by telling you all of this I'm also trying to tell myself this ... Here's a list of things that I consider love languages, because the standard ones--acts of service, quality time, gifts, words of affirmation

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  , and having the majority of your time be consumed by one person is not ... later, in an ironic (and quite sad) twist of fate, I broke the November ... ="exactly 2 years ago to this day. i am the master of eerie timing"]month into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  to play in the pit orchestra for Assassins, a show performed by MIT's Musical Theater Guild. The music and lyrics were written by Stephen Sondheim ... , occasionally painful (my lips hurt!) reconnection with my lovely set of brass

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  a knower of MIT-related things, I have been asked many times how ... to put the anxiety of prospective students to rest; knowing you're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  - surrounded by friends, lots of hobbies, and a job that I liked decently well ... into a version of myself who is capable of deciding to do an activity by ... by my own experience"]games[/annotation], and a smattering of other

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  puzzles from an issue of P&A Magazine together. The last time the Puzzle ... walking from the west side of campus, so with me living in the east side, we ... you mean?" "Well," he said, "in college, I always thought of hours and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  schools in the world...defeated by a rice cooker." 5. The knob on one of ... lot of error. Here's a list of my very own freshman housing horror ... big fan of it. What I am not a fan of is bugs. So naturally, I was very

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  , painfully, inch by inch. You will lose yourself. You will become someone new ... 's, and C's do."] ABC/NR. [/annotation] For me, it came in the fall of my ... tired. It took me all of sophomore fall to learn that difference. I was

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  . The first one was a green field-of-sorts surrounded by tall, red brick ... entering through a door surrounded by a bunch of columns, and there aren ... because of something called ‘snow.’” That would, however, be the most false

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  treat” into the night and it’d just echo back at you. The idea of going ... down a gravel road. So every Halloween, my “route” consisted of exactly ... pretend to be all surprised for trick-or-treaters and she’d hand each of us

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025