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• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  a UROP in their lab, or anything else. This is how Melis and I got an ... 's taught me how to keep walking, even when I'm going against the wind. It's showed me exactly the value of knowing exactly how many smoots away I am

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  clubs and classes to do, I also have to figure out how to balance that with keeping myself alive. Can you believe that? I have to remember to ... water.) I’m stuck in a bit of a situation where I’m weirdly better at the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  our utilities get to us—in fact, I can say with certainty that I know ... affects literally human being in the whole world. Period. I can use the ... A lot of people living in the United States don’t understand how

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  dollars. "Yes," he said. "Because the amount of good I can do in my lifetime ... I can do in my lifetime is worth ten billion dollars, but I care about ... morally wrong choice. But how can anyone truly blame him for it? Back in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  how human beings can be truly good, but there are also cases in which we ... , and D&D sword and throne room in another building. I got to stay in ... store so I could buy some good cheese. And everyone was so nice and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  , college websites, read everything you can. Take everything into account. I ... do and how we live. Here's the way I write. I write about the stuff ... of context and that prefrosh understand the background In the past I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  arrival... I'm wondering how long I can get away without buying a real ... other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a shocking way, so I'll answer anyway. Look at yourself in the mirror -- there

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  , which is totally serious, all the time. I live in Nest House, which is ... Identity. At first I didn't know how to take the news. This placement was ... really make me confident in knowing that he'll be there whenever I have a

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  today at Noon EST. Hope you can watch! http ... towards the end. I'm not sure if you could sense it from where you were, but ... . I'll post answers to the puzzles you guys worked on and some to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  conversations. I can't tell you how often I find myself having in-depth and ... , but really I'm laughing because I can't figure out how to get up without ... gaming has led to an even further increase in nerdiness. Sometimes I can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  wall in order to get slow internet, all I have to do is turn on my computer in order to get blazing fast internet. As such I was very rapidly ... *LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYY *I Can Has Cheezburger *MC Frontalot *Rooster Teeth, the creators of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  MIT and he graduated last year with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. I ... As a kid, I always secretly dreamed of being on a TV show. Had there ... with an array of engineering challenges. Working in groups of four, each

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  More entries about buildings and food Same as it ever was. I'm still single, but at least I'm in Belgium.

  

  colors." Gwyneth Paltrow, I'm looking in your direction. Well, I don ... , Belgium. Because I was in Brussels, Belgium this weekend. if you happen to ... "travel like a lord" in first class. Wait, actually, I do have some big

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  is a band I'm going to have to explain to my kids so they can ... notes. Even JBJ himself can't do it anymore. 0x6. Cherry Filter, [I can ... Opera here in Boston. I love the costuming, the movements, and of course

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s the word for

  

  much” to “what’s up” or “i’m good” to “how are you” knowing how to use ... dancing in an empty room, so we can shorten the phrase “dance like no one ... span of moments in which you’re not quite ready to accept the fact that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  &J sandwich orrrr I decide I'm too lazy to make my lunch and that I'll just buy ... : Finally at Merck! I can't actually talk about my specific project, but just as a general overview, I'm working in Merck's vaccine division this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  ’ve struggled to earn B’s here!—I can’t see how those 250 words would have hurt my ... I spent this morning sitting in 1369 Coffee on Mass Ave writing new ... , for one thing. For another, I didn’t actually put “MIT” in the subjects

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  . As I recently wrote in an op-ed piece for the higher ed website Inside ... her personal growth and genuine enthusiasm for learning. In the piece I ... participated in FIRST, last year I had the good fortune of experiencing FIRST

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  . However, in the process of doing research for it, I read a book titled ... systems. In it, I found this photo of Harvard Bridge from 1929: This ... , which I've labelled in the image below. [caption id="attachment_61427

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  independently. However, applied to drawing, I can look at how the adjustment of ... 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