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• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  obvious, but what was less clear to me was that my hair was also thinning in ... day in middle school. Most of the time, my mom would take me to Supercuts or whatever. In the summers I’d get a buzzcut to stay cool, and my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  goes when it’s not tied up doing psets. A lot of people participate in ... trade in courses in physics and math for wonky classes like "Science of ... the MIT community at any stage in the process of of starting a company

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  from something I still don't understand in the Media Lab, is coming back! (And maybe the return of m_quinn but hopefully not.) So, in usual ... probably pre-frosh anyway. (And my friends at work who, in the connected

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  't in the clear yet. One challenge remained: the 8.012 final exam. To put ... finals in three days, I packed my bags and headed back home to South Bend ... , everything has. Including me. A lot can happen in a semester, especially a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  's pretty cool to look at a page I created and take pride in its...artistic...nature. Right. In other news, I chose a major! It's an awesome choice that doesn ... to say. And it's still in the running for actually becoming my major

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  activities. before sophomore fall, I chose classes I was interested in and I ... I was happy with how fall turned out in the end, I was miserable for ... at a pace faster than I could keep up with but the professor was clear

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  overall pace is not clear to me, in the sense that longer strides don ... it turns out many people at mit walk really slowly. not in the sense that mit is slower than the rest of the world, but in the sense that you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  despite having worked in the industry for two summers in a row. Occasionally ... summers to catch up on the hobbies that I don't actually partake in at all ... in over summers. This summer, I think I've made a reasonably sized

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  spend time in anther country. It’s difficult to justify spending a ... in the world. Plus, more and more summers are being reserved for ... study abroad opportunities as I can! The Plaza de España in Sevilla This

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  the hours i've spent in bed recently have added up, pointing to one ... therapy specifically for depression for FIVE MONTHS?? clown moment. in any ... , affecting my nose and inducing pain in my ears, it was difficult to fall

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  laughed, a lot. Laughed so much, in fact, that my friends sitting nearby ... time I step on a scale, I find myself doing the BMI calculation in my ... disease, or diabetes, or cancer. In general, a shorter lifespan. But I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  . Grades seven to twelve of my education in Nigeria were spent in a boarding school in the country’s capital. Mirroring Nigeria’s religious demographic ... headed by our religious studies teacher. For these six years in a cozy but

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  herself two clear eyes.   Margaret Z.  It's W I D E T I M !! In ... Shuli: The new MIT Welcome Center opened in Kendall Square in ... filled with student art. In this post, Kidist and I teamed up to tell you

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  independent studies.  Also, just to make it clear, in case it’s confusing in ... In spring 2018, we wrote a post called Visual Arts @ MIT. In that ... have done at MIT in an attempt to illustrate that, despite common belief

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  seemed to be every dorm but the one I was slated to live in for the next ... I had individual friends in Maseeh, I’d figured, dorm culture wasn ... came out in May. However, after getting to campus and dancing, having my

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  process. Dozens of you wrote in with wonderful, funny, and sometimes ... best universities in my country. However, I want to study aerospace engineering. In Costa Rica, we hardly have a decent airport for receiving

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  scratch!   Step 1: Visualize the sign in your designated space ... and visualize pretty much whatever you want in 3D regardless of what you ... presentations to websites on an infinite canvas." ] Figma [/annotation] to flatten

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  In my very first blog post, I laid out a list of the goals that I ... borked the 30s. In my defense, there were certain ~ points ~ in my MIT ... limited on campus semester in which I really didn't walk through the 30s at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  Two weeks ago, while visiting my family in State College, I got to see some images in Old State Clothing Co. that probably seem sad and ironic to an outsider. “Believe deep down in your heart that you are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  "]Notion,[/annotation] or Dynalist, or whatever other popular strategies people swear by. In a ... ="Communication Intensive in the Humanities; basically means you have to write a certain ... woefully undercovered in most US curricula, and the first book we read

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021