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• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  , almost like my innate daftness is an excuse for not being able to learn. In ... , I've felt like a fake at MIT. That I fit in socially and I have great ... feel like a failure a lot of the time and it takes everything in me not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  really just sit in front of a computer for 8 hours a day? Do you work on ... . These opinions are in every way my own and don’t reflect Google’s views ... Carnegie. I digress. 8:45am, Elements Cafe: Arrive from the 71C bus in time

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  ’ve made while in college...   1. Trying to go for the computer science ... an electronics class, or simply gotten ahead in my requirements to ... perfectly good jobs in mechanical engineering everyone, even if they don

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  . One of my HASS classes is in French IV, which I was frightened into taking after realizing how bad my French was while studying in Europe this ... maybe some pattern drafting thrown in. What the class has ended up being

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  rediscovered a diary that I kept in first grade. My favorite entry reads ... a science museum and saw some NASA signs in the space section and ... space was cool. High School science was a less successful experience. In

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  ’ll look different. No one will notice.” The first shifted his weight in his ... of the world was overcast, but somewhere in the Pacific Ocean a cruise ... and Harvard bridges and, in boats and on the bank, the stretch of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  Tonight I was in an MIT admissions webcast, which was targeted ... chill because I was required to have PE every day in high school) I ... , the one who pulls the rope that the sail is attached to. (Now, in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  Arthur Dent: You know, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a ... in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told ... 're not trapped in a Vogon airlock (or are you?), but I do have advice for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  of success in achieving said goals, this probably would have been a ... mustache, for one. I wanted to major in Computer Science and graduate and ... . (Disclaimer: I did always have an interest in bioengineering, but i just didn

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  Almost forgot... In all the laziness surrounding my vacation, I ... Thursday for all of IAP in a classroom. As long as I pass all of the tests ... semester. If I take the national registry exam, I will also be certified in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  the only 24-hour establishment in Boston- so it must be true! According ... the title of "best milkshakes in Boston" at one point, I'm pretty sure ... .) We only went in the wrong direction for about a block and a half, which

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  -making is a skill. Like many skills, there's a body of knowledge, scattered in ... spend another year or two in MIT and get another degree, or should I leave Boston and work in industry? Never mind the question of what industry I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  the ear in which it was played. I couldn’t have told you where “left ... . There was the year I read almost everything in the school library. The library was quiet, and “read every book in the library” was the kind of

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  Recently, I've stopped listening to new music releases in favor of ... musical phases, I'll try and put them into bullet points in the beginning of ... Direction - my biggest regret in life is declining tickets to see them in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT Bloggers Sniped Wrapped in which people take a LOT of photos of me around campus

  

  put photos of other people in the group whenever you see them in the ... 'm in three different stalking channels. One for Cru, one for Orientation ... ="attachment_115835" align="aligncenter" width="600"] As you can see, I was in the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  Hockey. Scootah Hockey, while rich in history and strategy, is a simple ... butt on in PE class. Each player was also gifted a weapon of pure magic ... felt aches in muscles as of yet never discovered. The revelry continued

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  's one thing they all have in common, it's that they're gonna make you ... of doing it logically by introducing a definition as it comes up in the ... professor will go back in a different color to a table/chart/cross we ran

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... offered early admission to 721. Though they are all different in their own ... reconsidered without prejudice in Regular Action, with decisions released

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  We’re So Back a collage of preseason

  

  is a span of two weeks in the summer before the semester starts, where ... to lead the team in spirit. Yours truly was the bearer of Hood Beav ... bones intact! In fact, our team actually did pretty well, with a loss of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  pilgrimage to Lamont Library in Harvard and camp there for hours. It's far ... having it today, lied back down in bed and slept until 3 PM. Had a bizarre ... in the middle of Siberia. I woke up, tried to study, but ended up lying

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023