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• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  ’ve watched my mom answer for herself all the years I grew up. Every time she ... , not for more than a few weeks, a traveller passing through her old ... you grew up here, a hardness and a hardiness to everything that lives

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  -9-9-9." Went to sleep at 9:30 every night because staying up past 10:00 was a ... spent 2 months preparing for it and was so depressed when I got 116, 4 ... dormmates come up: "Hey Chris, good morning! You're up early today

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  signed up for a couple online tutoring sites and, after a few weeks of ... for the first time ever Mailed letters to loved ones Set up a ... to unpack with a gap year, so I’ve broken it up into 2 parts. Three

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  was asleep for the first half of it. But when I woke up, the English ... leading up to my flight to London were hectic. I was graduating, so along ... over. Then, I had to pack up everything that was left in my room, and I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  up at MIT for grad school. Or you will ... the list is honestly endless ... , raspberry finger tip disease Times Are Hard for Dreamers  Tour de France mash-up ... MIT was our dream school. The blogs were one of the main reasons for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  Hello friends! News updates: IAP is over! This is sad for most people, but happy for me, because I'll actually be attending FEWER hours of ... such useful tips as do's and don'ts for a first date. She also had plenty

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  on them. but they're small, and it's very easy to mess things up ... 't reel it in i might end up somewhere i don't want to be. it's just really easy for me to go into lab and spend all of my time there to run away

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  —I could’ve woken up for 100% of my classes! Imagine thinking for years that ... straying from the path set up by my education, but it was meant to be. I ... inertia” and actually you can wake up so easily if you have those meds. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  B1ner Cribs come see 10+ rooms on Burton 1

  

  extensive tour of rooms on [annotation note="For those who don't know us, we ... .... i love the way i have it set up. i especially love staring at my line ... bed this year lol. shoutout list for doing slap because the framed art

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  open stores and the outdoors; this is mostly true for adults as well ... ’re a college student, for a brief time you can basically do whatever you ... of other answers out there. for example, if you asked me three years

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  the denotations of the words matched up very well (this is one of the problems with inventing new meanings for words: you end up with associations ... as a surprise that all my favorite battles are mental ones. for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  watching Harry Potter for the nth time. On a normal day, there are at least ... workouts for us. The first night I tried, we did it outside at 11 pm, and it ... , straight up, but now I'm a routine of doing it every night with the others. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  singing group within Next House! Our main goal for the group was for it to ... as essentially a shower thought by Cynthia L. '20 ended up becoming an actual thing. Like, for lack of a better term, W T F In the beginning

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  and finally feel ready to rejoin society. Today I woke up and looked out ... , looking for any and all signs of fall. My only directive was to maximize the ... the city. You get to check them out for 30 mins at a time before you

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  airport, so I scurried around and looked for MIT folk for a solid twenty ... looking for. I was hoping someone would have an MIT shirt on or something, so I wouldn’t have to go up to strangers and say, “Hey are you the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  course 16 advisor for the first time and expressed my abject terror at ... ’s luxurious Institute mattress for the pure joy that is throwing together a ... waste time searching for like the freshman that you still feel like most

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  . Matt Damon was too. Yes, when he got up on stage, one of the first things he said was that he didn't deserve to be speaking up there. "Let ... ? The guy who did the voice for a cartoon horse." Yet even though he didn

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  degrees and sunny. That basically sums up my prior experience with ... that sends out alerts for weather reports and updates when needed. I also ... drought conditions for too long Two days later the temperature suddenly

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  have to kick it into high gear for my 6.042 exam on Wednesday. I spent all of Monday night from 8pm to 2am studying. I woke up promptly at 7 ... down everything I knew, tried different things, and came up with what I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

   Answer: Stuff that I paid for. Right Answer: Stuff that I got for free at the ... the world had come for the sole purpose of recruiting me! Well, not ... I got so much free stuff that I won’t need to buy shirts for another

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013