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• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  commtment to the next. When classes began, I was fine: the academics were manageable, because I had seen much of the material in high school. One of my ... the year, I can describe what happened pretty confidently. Here are some

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  

  /Math/Computers to the novice monks, and some local school children, and participating ... can say that the time spent in Mumbai was fantastic. The ... the interaction, academic and otherwise, with graduate students

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  phone to look at the time, my heart skips a beat. Noon? Already?!? I planned on waking up at ten at the latest, but both me and my roommate slept right through the alarm.   1:00 PM: After debating if I really

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  an interactive diagram [annotation note="The new numbering system is ... the old system"]showing off the new numbering system[/annotation], build ... Gemini) uses up-to-date information and seems to know how the new Course 6

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  , so this is a nice change. i blink at the brightness of my room -- my blinds do a terrible job at blocking the sunlight, but i don't mind, most of the time. instead of reaching for my phone like i normally do, i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  As they said in the old, more hardkore days of MIT, you all might have heard of a liberal arts school down the road. It’s got buildings of ... bear its name are sold everywhere from the airport to Boston Commons

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  would drop me off at the gym and i would run laps around the track, and every time an adult passed me i’d tense up and brace for the possibility ... this impulse might actually be doing me more harm than good, and that the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  Hi! I disappeared from the blogs for the past few months, oops. I ... disappointed by the Artemis Fowl movie [annotation note="still mad about this. I ... for hours, staring at the ceiling, contemplating whether or not life has

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman ... . Editor's notes were added in the spring of senior year. For reference, here ... post.  On the week of Pi Day, my friend and I both wondered how a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  happen if you were to gather a mole (unit of measurement) of moles (the ... happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?” More often than not, the actual physics causes some form of apocalyptic

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  all about my life not that long ago. In fact, the time between my last post and this one is really not that much longer than the time between my ... on the blogs’ 10th birthday festivities. And while I hardly have any

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  on their psets due the next morning, crack a bad joke or two (and when we're on a roll, even the occasional good one), put on long stretches ... our two-hour set? What if we both sounded like bumbling idiots on the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Earlier this month, I asked for your reflections on the application ... . Ryan, Pennsylvania Click on the image for a flash animation: Carla ... quite good, and I have earned a complete scholarship for attending the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  keep going down this road At the beginning of senior year, I began tackling the question on my final final exam: What happens next? Decision ... knowing and working, a gap exacerbated by the fear, uncertainty, and doubt

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

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  [caption id="attachment_105508" align="aligncenter" width="300"] The ... up with Gen Zalpha slang, or people who are reading this in the far ... . I unfortunately lost a handful of aura points in the past several days

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  title this blog, so many ways to sound truly, deeply weird. But the urge ... campus to help with this, luxuriating in the joys of free Starlink wifi ... day. This is particularly useful when the rest of college is… not super

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  year old. So I'll try to use only the ten hundred most used words to explain the big ideas from classes I liked! [annotation note="obviously class numbers are not in the ten hundred most used words, but I'm leaving

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2028 are now available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... to the MIT Class of 2028, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  This year, I made a spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine. The magazine ... Infinite's new little sister MIT Gala. This year, the theme of the magazine ... think someone on the board called it Mortal Shell, which I thought was

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  ="Introduction to Solid State Chemistry. Satisfies the Chemistry GIR."]3.091[/annotation] and [annotation note="Introductory Biology. Satisfies the Biology ... first year at MIT, but I feel less excited and more dissatisfied about the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022