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• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  Since January, I've been having a sort of crisis about my place at ... , I've felt like a fake at MIT. That I fit in socially and I have great ... of fears swirling in my head being at this school. I praise it every

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  , but we all never had time to see it. thanks, MIT—at least all of us were ... bright and early hour of 1 PM, so representation at the event was at a ... cool. features the address of the apartment the floor hung out at for two

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  because of last year's internship at PlayStation, I have still not acquired ... , but I'm awful at technical interviews and haven't gotten the hang of ... , and I'm sort of stalled at the confluence of all three of these rivers

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  reading assignments with only a moderate degree of success at remaining dry ... my schedule such that not a single class of mine runs past 3:30 pm. This was done primarily to create the illusion of actually having time

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  ) "Dry heat" huh... You know what? 99 degrees is 99 degrees. End of ... ) "Dry heat" huh... You know what? 108 degrees is 108 degrees. End of ... of great conversations and more than a few laughs at my expense. Sorry

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  advantage of the sunny, 55 degree weather to catch up on all the vitamin D I failed to absorb in wintry days past. In celebration of this meteorological grace, my writing professor agreed to move the location of today's class

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010
• Blog / Internships & Externships

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

  

  I’m currently in the exotic land of England. Over a week ago, I flew into Heathrow Airport on a dragon, and then I rode with a group of ... where students teach STEM and entrepreneurship at high schools in

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

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  job at a prestigious consulting firm, a place where many of her peers at ... particularly difficult to fake one’s way through. I suspect that, at another ... On Friday, I watched Everything Everywhere All At Once, a movie where

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  and headed back towards MIT. At the start of our last week on campus ... I loved living in Macgregor. Every weekday, I woke up at 6, brushed my teeth, and stumbled across Memorial Drive to the boathouse. At 6

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  cool, I don’t look back at my science fair years because of the work I did. Not at all. Rather, I look back at those years because of the ... pulled me out of my small suburb in Texas. It helped me make sense of the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  , I could be a BME major at Johns Hopkins, sat in the nook of some cafe ... reality of situation, though, is that the road is not at all the same. I ... In my freshman year of high school, my favorite teacher that year had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  Library. Twice. Sat in a serene fake temple at the Museum. Saw masterpieces ... . Strained arms with sacks of cheap fruit from the Haymarket. Stared plenty at ... week, someone from my hall at MIT asked, “When are you coming home to 1E

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  earning his master's degree at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab, and he had ... One of the stereotypes of sci/tech/engineering schools like MIT is ... they crack under the pressure of my enormous good looks. The pimples on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  major, and I was sick at the end of last semester. Michelle G. '18 wrote about what it is like to not be well at the end of a semester, and it is not fun ... to the committee: "I have spent so much of my time at MIT writing, I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program, Khademhosseini has recently been named one of Technology ... Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto, he came to MIT to pursue a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  and turf dinners at the houses the first night of rush. Parents, to a ... lot of my friends back home thought to themselves when I told them my ... sleep. So to a degree, the reaction my friends had was well deserved

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  about what I am capable of. I pre-registered for six classes at the ... . However, all of the assignments were due at the same times and the amount of ... my other classes, and I had to switch it to listener at the end of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  on the way back at 5 am. Sadly, MIT doesn't have either of these papers ... that the University of Texas, his alma mater, has its very own Gutenberg ... Hey again world, it's me, Ruth, friend of Sam. Regardless of Sam

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  my rights violated by the Massassassachisetts Institvte of Technology ... ’s finally the weekend—a four-day weekend at that—but MIT has another thing ... calm my fiery sense of injustice. So I’m probably just having some

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  , what to expect of it, how i was failing at expecting and on the other ... And we leave it all behindCan't you see we need some time? at a camp ... in tents outdoors. at meals, we would gather around the heater and melt

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023