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• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  year here, I joined a business club because I was interested in ... there, and I realized that if I actually pursued a career in this ... nobody in 18.032. Due to a mandatory recitation for another class, I would

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  Ageing: for all the all-nighters I can no longer pull off, and all ... mostly-freshman GIR (General Institute Requirement) I can no longer ... (plus, I can attend pset parties again!). Frosh (of First East): for the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  to write stuff. Here are some pictures and how i feel about those ... computer shop party in a parking building. I took a lot of pictures, but it ... that i ended up buying. It's called "What's the Furthest Place From Here

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  in the gorilla suit jumped in, and I said, "Come on, Mitra, we can ... anything in the world, mental or physical, if I just put some time and training into it. In the past five years I've done a lot of thinking, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  . Jaywalk Mass Ave. I'm kidding; ;)don't;) ;)break;) the ;)law.;) Fall in ... In a very institvtional gesture of welcome, each incoming MIT student ... ] While these are nice or whatever, I find them to be a bit generic. Here

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  you learned some of these? I now know how many hours are in a week and how many weeks are in a year I learned that MEAD envelopes with ... 'm sitting here, freaking out about how I didn't "get in." Well guess what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• 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…

  

  expletive I can’t use on this blog, because cats read it or something and they ... kind of nice for once. Maybe too nice. I’m suspicious, but I can wear a T-Shirt and that’s fine. I’m supposed to meet up my advisor, Saif Rayyan, in his

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  water war weapons. I have sporks on my shirts. I chip in to buy our ... of paper. I can only guess what happens to those lists of names, but I ... solution. I spent all of my time at a particular fraternity in hopes of

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  in my head. And now, that mental blog entry is here :) I was thinking about lab and about how these past few weeks in Bhatia Lab have taught me ... 've learned a little about life - and how to live it: 1. Tell the truth. I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  my time in [annotation note="Physics 1"]8.01[/annotation]I was failing ... hemisphere that spends 90% of its life in the air. An Albatross can go up to 6 ... sleep in the air, meaning they can spend years without having to go to dry

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  said and done, i feel better. but i don’t know how to do it in ... i’ve learned that people here rely on each other. in a greuling ... , not today” or lean their head towards me so i can ruffle their hair a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  eat? How do I properly feed myself?  Can I feed myself if I am off the ... ’m stupid for asking so many questions? How can I ration the number of ... ? How would my life be different if I didn’t do crew in the early mornings

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  Ideas IAP started off just how I imagined. In the first week, I practiced ... Ideas Weekend was my calling. I sent in two event proposals, and thought ... wood, or even how to use any power tools whatsoever, I was confident that

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  in "Professors Get Low Marks," I don't buy it for a second. I ... applying? Can I send any?" Yes. We're happy to accept extra materials if you ... explaining a special circumstance in your case. anonymous wrote, "I am a high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  to the opportunities available in the United States and how anyone can ... Cross student going to M.I.T. in the Fall By Jarett Henshaw Published ... , Cornell, and Berkeley. He decided to go to college at M.I.T. in Boston. "The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  , one that can't be reduced to just "let's do things in-person again!" I ... about abstract concepts like "fit" and "where I really want to go". In ... process, how was I going to put up with several dozen more? It tends to be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  for so long that you have it all figured out. One week in, I was back ... ?"]first midterm[/annotation] in 7.012 this week. I spent over 5 hours in the shop ... . I had forgotten how stressful of a place MIT could be, how much

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  feels like just yesterday (I graduated in 2013). Last year, I had the ... going in this discipline. But job aside, I’ve also distilled what I want ... , by the way, was something I acquired during an IAP program in South

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  it. But actually, the transition can be pretty painful. I'm here to ... good at this in high school (doing what I love, not working for The Man ... classes, I tried really hard to keep this in mind. But the pressure to take

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  learned about in school. Later, I met The Snively and The Ben Jones at check-in, and walking down The Infinite Corridor, I saw The Admissions ... ! Becca '12 and I at Meet the Bloggers Tim '12 and I stuck in a knot at

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008