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• 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

  

  - always on my way to somewhere. One day, a friend tells me, “Hanging out ... since I graduated. The Red Line rushes through the tunnel on the way out ... . I’m 28 and shame no longer gets in the way of living life with my

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

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  i’m starting this entry at an airport at 5am. sometimes waking up way ... draw of this city is to find different ways to spend a lot of money ... i remembered that the proper way to take a cute bagel pic was to open

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  something. People generally use it to mean ‘unrelated,’ the way ‘tangential ... into lalaland’ (the way that a line tangent to a circle moves with the ... : ‘There exists’ is just a fancy way to say ‘there is,’ while simultaneously

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  awkwardness get in the way of getting to know people. Asking people to eat lunch ... tackle cooking in a similar way. I searched up videos about cheap cooking ... of cooking, new ways of adding a unique kick of flavor to my food. I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  way too cold in the buildings, all the time, when you wish you could ... individually cheap but together they cost way more than you would have liked; the ... New England vibe, the way the towns and parks and streets have a certain

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  components! It was kind of painful, but still fun in a uniquely MIT way ... placed the buttons in a way that was most comfortable for me to hold. Only ... correct way to play back songs, but I still had some more work to do before

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  off steam when I'm frustrated or need a way to vent, or when I'm hanging ... now, just because it's a fun way to fidget. The first time I conducted ... dynamics, the phrasings, etc., in the way that I can pick sentences apart and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  , 10+ weeks of non-stop assignments gave way to a week of utter ... deprivation, by the way. I almost got a migraine on the third night. There were ... post by Yashu Seth that did the same thing, six years ago. The way we

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  hygiene, and there was no way i was going to maintain such a long streak ... have never found a way to prevent these kinds of relapses, only ways to ... wondrous act of faith. Flossing is a way of current you saying, ‘I believe

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  has an overall happy, soft, purple-pink (but in a good way) feel to it ... uses very overused phrases in her songs in some clever way. In Lover ... By A Thousand Cuts are all so different and so good in their own ways

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  grandfather clock has swung the wrong way, and I can barely pick up my apple ... for the midterm, I realized that there’s really no way around it. The ... specifically, I think I get stressed in a different way. It’s less like the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  kid, you typically don't have to go out of your way to ask for things ... a covid test for me because i was feeling way too weak to make the ... flooring inside, and crossed the street, making my way past area four and the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  and personally, and it is hard in ways that are difficult to discuss ... extensions on assignments, looking for a way to cling to the raft of life while ... ways I gauge how well I'm doing is by how often I call my parents. If I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  just because it's been manifesting itself in different ways around me ... manifesting itself in nasty ways. Ways I didn't think I'd see in myself since it ... 'm finally happy with my body and the way I look. I eat as I please without

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  way as I did when I started writing, and it no longer felt genuine. The ... one of my trusted playlists (link?), I walked my way up to Harvard ... way from New York, and I’d ignore their calls and send cryptic messages

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  because of the pandemic) are a great way to spend dedicated time thinking ... ), because my semester was way too busy. Will you be my ESP Valentine?: In ... the way to my freshman year. Cluedumps: You may have seen a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

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

  

  to put on hair wax in [annotation note=" It seems like there are ways ... hair was moisturized and remained that way for the whole week I had it in ... , it turned out fine. After that day, I got way better at applying them

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  . This ragtag friend group then made way for the Dream Survival Multiplayer ... 're steadily making our way through it. For those of you who don't know, Love ... the show so we're making our way through it. I'm only on Season 2, but

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  , writers, and many more who find ways to demonstrate their creativity and love for art in so many ways on campus. The people are what make it ... . It's a way to teach you that you aren't alone and that your weaknesses

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  ."]zonotopal[/annotation] tiling—a way to dissect the zonotope into pieces, each of which are a ... the red segments, which goes all the way to the opposite side. We can do ... have a way that turns a series of wires into the reverse order, where we

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020