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• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  roads that seem too narrow for two cars to pass. Only slow songs come up ... than (1/x) for years. He knew how to set up integrals for his equations ... that list to the ones that are most palatable for a blog. # I didn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning by Doing a glimpse into the cool class-projects I got to work on last semester

  

  everything for a while. I’ve had to catch up to a LOT of emails and Slack ... for a week and taking two finals on Friday, I somehow needed to pack up ... come. Next year, I'm also planning on signing up for makerspace access so

  • by Hala K. '29
  • July 10, 2026
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  Kazakhstan for GTL. Doha was the most common layover when traveling to ... for summer tourists"][/annotation] In addition, Qatar Airways offers a "stopover program," for multi-day layovers with free/heavily discounted hotel

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  do things. take this post, for example. i’ve been sitting on this post for nearly two months (?!) - i told myself it was writer’s block, but ... you think you’re on the right path for you at the moment, you might wake

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  to Harvard. I even had a recommendation lined up from a Harvard ... blogger. So I stayed at MIT. I could still take up to half of my classes at ... ’ll never end: you wake up on Monday and know that you won’t be able to take a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  Hayden for the next few hours.” I hadn’t thought about experiences like ... have fantasized about waking up, going to class, eating, working ... sobered up from. Which is sad in some ways, but also an inevitable and

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  York Magazine's picks for the fall. Junot (we didn't call him Professor ... about the eleven years it took him to follow up on his best-selling, six ... 's another juicy quotation for the click-averse: "Then Díaz more or less

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  that they would charter five boats a day for it, but I guess if the ... things a little differently. Here is this incredibly artful for those of ... start setting up camp, got a little more into the whole pirate mood than

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  kitchen, somnambulant and predictable in my unending search for caffeine ... ’ve struggled in the past to establish a healthy routine for reading applications ... hyper-productivity where I worked continuously for hours until my cases

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  is a test-run for the workflow of a “full” experiment. For the intro ... 4-page paper. These are graded for completion! The format is hard the ... for 5 lab sessions and write an associated paper + presentation (I did

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  , I went to set up and run the activities midway booth for Chinese ... ; (True story: agonized over this title for days before giving up and going ... hours, maybe. But as for this particular piece of the internet, I haven

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  -taking fee. As we sat on the roof for about an hour, a sound crew set up for a ... pour concrete into its base. The tower actually ended up leaning even further and now must be stabilized with cables. For those of you just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  ) after decisions r mailed out..." Of course! Here goes, catching up on your ... , though, we're all looking for a good match, and since each of these schools ... ask, but who do I contact/email about services for kids with LD?" This

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  in-between of novels and movies. Novels allow for endless words ... more on its pictures to tell story rather than its dialogue. For our first assignment of the class, we were challenged to write a script for a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  miscommunication with a German ticket officer that ended up with me not reserving a ticket for the Super Special Hotel Train, leaving Ling '07 and I stranded there waiting for one of the two or three daily trains to get us into

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  below for a while but couldn’t because I didn’t have time or didn’t want ... shoulder was silver/purple/orange for a few weeks and so were my chair, hands ... hair was moisturized and remained that way for the whole week I had it in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  first day of class, we talk about the goals for the class, safety, and ... , and the air pistol is pretty much made for that. The trigger is light ... it was a general rule for precision shooting events that weapons be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  lessons for 14 years, played the trumpet in concert band for eight years, grew up with a classical music-loving mother, and now live with a ... go listen to concerts in Boston for free. In other words: I've had a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  !), but RNAi, for example, was first fully characterized in C. elegans, and ... for that discovery (every once in awhile I will see Professor Horvitz at joint lab meetings!). Two Nobel Prizes in five years for a microscopic

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  so for the rest of my MIT career, and maybe even further beyond. I even wrote about wanting to design bridges for my application to MIT ... structures is farther up my alley than telling you what’s in them. I’m sure

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020