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• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  Summer in Alaska, I learned this July, is an exuberant, unrestrained ... reaching the heavy heat of Kentucky summers, summer in Alaska feels more ... , if aimless. I re-read all the Newbery-winning books I loved in

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  As it gets colder and colder in Boston, things are heating up on the court and in the pool as MIT Winter sports continue to ramp up. Here are ... work-heavy, which can obviously be used later in life. Also the community

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  drawing class Every Tuesday evening, right as the sun was setting in ... whole more overwhelming, at least I know it would in the beginning for me ... drawing I must preface that I never thought of myself as a drawer. In fact

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  until dinner. The events in the game are pretty faithful to what I did on Friday, September 30, but I had to invent what happened in the branches I ... something in the afternoon, eat dinner, then the ending. If it's a linear path

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  first notes of "Love Me More" drifted in, Mitski stepped out, and the ... between the two lovers is steeped in racial and cultural differences. In ... this has turned out to be somewhat true in that I have never had a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  reflection on the past year for a while now. A lot has happened in the past couple of months. The Afeefah that sprinted across campus in March 2020 is versions away from the Afeefah that is sitting in her childhood bedroom

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  In a call with my boyfriend a couple months ago, I asked him the ... courage to ask the question in the first place, I was already predicting ... this. And because of it, I've been thinking a lot about what he said. In

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  was in high school i never felt really sad when the seniors graduated, because i know they’ll be around. many are going to college in plv or upd or ... people around. but, this is supposed to be different, right? i am in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  In the week following our last few days on campus due to the COVID-19 ... of MIT in the game Minecraft. And given how dedicated, ambitious, and ... success. In a span of a few weeks, a group of around 300 people spent over a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  (especially as they appear in the Tumblr studyblr community). I had long ago lodged “MBTI” (the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) into a closet in my head ... periods of introspection, helped in part by taking a Myers

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  biology is a real science (I am the only course 20 in a group of 60ish so I ... ’t like biology). Nevertheless, MIT leads the world in its biology research ... major, there is a lot of work in making things like MRI’s, CAT scans

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you ... and Back by Mitra L. '07, Sam M. '07, and Bryan O. '07 These are, in my ... 've had a tremendous impact. In advance of this anniversary, I decided to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  medicine was supposed to do, but I remember that I put it in one of those ... proudly brought it to school, got up in front of the class, and spent thirty ... that I got up and didn't say anything at all. Elsewhere in the spacetime

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  convenience. - When I was younger, so much younger than today (in high school ... loved both words and numbers, but the former came more naturally. In no ... ’m not saying that I never needed anybody’s help in any way, but I was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  before the meeting. 11:30am. I arrive in Ann Arbor a little early, so I go ... begin to come in. 3:00pm. We start up the meeting, and everything goes ... , 2008 The next couple days, I visit a few high schools in the area, and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  schools; and in the process I've completely forgotten what was supposed to ... 've got all this writing momentum, I pulled up this particular work in progress. We expect that this will turn into a senior thesis (in physics) for

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  rural desert roots in search of the rest of my life. I'm eighteen years ... thoroughly embarrass me involves walking in while I'm talking to myself about ... in Toronto, where they tired of the cold winters and set out for the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  . In fact, I had to look at my blog posts to check that I’ve never written these before. I’ve been thinking about the things I’ve done in the ... to run it online. In fact, there’s a Google Colab notebook using gpt-2

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  . Ever since then, I have been obsessed. In high school, it was my go ... . There is a thing called the Tetris Effect, where you see tetris squares in ... sleeping in high school because I was always seeing the tetris pieces in my

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  seats in the lounge car are very full as we prepare for the journey over ... conclusion that, in fact, South Station is just bad; Union Station is beautiful ... together at the only store open in the whole place. I had some miraculous

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023