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• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  monsters. I don't really have the words to describe what this show means to ... to be too childish for my tastes, as the show is riddled with moments ... is necessary to understand the show fully.) I took a long break from

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  , and for those who are so inclined, there are a billion ways to hold onto ... spectroscopy. This summer, I had the chance to live in an apartment in Cambridge ... /self study, I began to realize that I needed something for me, outside of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  ="64798" /] It's Filipino culture to comment on people's bodies when you greet them ... honest observation about the person you're talking to is supposed to be a sign of concern; that they care about you enough to both remember what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  quick recap of how the semester's gone for me so far since I've wanted to ... &M, last spring so I was eligible to take 8.021, a lecture-based format of ... Learning"]TEAL.[/annotation] At first, I was really nervous to take this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  't had time to blog, and what I've been doing instead. The main reason, though, is that I wanted to write something perfect and meaningful and personal yet protective of my friends' and family's privacy, and I refused to

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  ’d[annotation note="a near impossible task to ask of two 19 year old college students ... down to the great exercise that is [annotation note="which involves a lot ... can admit that it can be really intimidating to start. Starting from

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  This year, for spring break my friend Yida and I decided to head to ... Montreal. Montreal is pretty easy to reach from Boston and as such is a popular spring break destination for MIT students. We decided to visit

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  . The rest of the day promises no surprises. I’ll need to find food, wash ... walk across the East Campus courtyard, twisting my neck to see the Boston ... the right to carry a laundry hamper across their own yard. When I walk

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  If you've been to a high school math class recently, you probably ... observed students entering anything from 999*999 to sin(π/6) to 7 ... +7 (=12) warrants machine help. And habits die hard. To combat our

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  seemed to be a consensus among a bunch of people I talked to that this was ... something really, really rad also happened this week, and I want to tell you about that instead. To introduce the rad thing, I present to you Exhibit

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• 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…

  

  coming if it thinks giving me four days off will be sufficient bribe to ... to rise and after mumbling a couple of sleepy words no doubt filled ... lose a life for each such word. I’m supposed to meet up with my advisor

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  me to do a Reddit-style AMA (Ask Me Anything) post.  I wasn't able to ... intellectual stimulation. I didn't want college to be just a continuation of high ... grades but never really had to challenge myself. I wanted to throw myself

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  results of a semester, year, or life's worth of effort. It boiled down to a desperate attempt to see an online grade, a college decision, or how many ... 't know how to use my camera.) And although I had a lot of fun sitting with

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  theory) ranged from rubbing dead cats on sticks to pouring super-cold liquid oxygen over a magnet to playing a physics guitar. That class was cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  . EDIT: Timur informs me that these pages are not accessible to non ... get an idea:   In fact, that's the source I used to find my job 3 ... few other things are charged directly to my student account, but

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  was to create an political statement about the troubled state of Random ... contains itself, which would have caused mild distress to Bertrand Russell. 3 ... already doing this one for Halloween. After much deliberation, I came to a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  a dozen people. Their brains probably went "NOOOO! Snively's going to ... ! He doesn't possess the self-control to write honestly about a sensitive ... 'm going to be honest. BUT, I'm also going to try really hard to not make

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  things I was looking forward to most about MIT was having a laptop and ... about what computers to bring to campus, and some articles around the ... , what does MIT recommend? If you go to MIT's page of Recommended Laptops

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  have a propensity to spit upon all popped collars and finals clubs, but I ... being Harv '08, and I've gotten to know some of her similarly cool friends ... popped, it's been feeling pretty starchy as of late. Going to Harvard as a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  This is entry #2 in my series "entries that need to be written ... to discuss freshman grading. The background Hopefully you know about ... people tend to get lower grades first term at MIT than they've ever gotten

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006