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• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  really well. How am I supposed to play music like this? Come on!   ... people in your community are ok with this new addition to the family and ... hope! Maybe take a trip to California, or something. I don't know. I don

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  I can't do anything on my own. That I've used so many crutches in my ... reality, it's just that I don't know how to learn. I've realized that my ... , I've felt like a fake at MIT. That I fit in socially and I have great

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  't really like, and didn't end up pursuing in the long run. I worked hard to ... , I immediately shed all the things that I had done in high school that ... when I first heard That sweet sound of humility? It came to my ears in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  It rains a lot in Boston. There’s not much more you can say about ... that you can wait inside for 10 minutes, and then it will stop. I had ... ’t work. I have had many umbrellas destroyed by the wind in Cambridge and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  find support for new ventures, and where I can combine my interests in ... admissions. I was a staunch planner back in high school, one of those people ... major in social science. If I had studied social science prior to college

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  . Remember this post in which I facetiously asked for a space heater? Turns out ... tossed in at no extra charge. Unfortunately, I will combust if I ever turn ... desk, I spied a whiteboard in the hallway with a suspicious bag of candy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... shorter than the previous one, unless i pull as hard as i can to stretch it ... presuming how my life will go and for giving me unactionable advice, i think

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  me it was really sweet how that person described their experience in elementary school as "filled with friends." i think that's how my life can be ... community in the past few months. mostly, how i wouldn't be where i am now

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  creative concepts. how do i rediscover my relationship with art—one in which ... i'm currently in the midst of my second week of online school. things ... high-school-esque. in my junior and senior years, i took only a few

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  lesson in Italian: "Voray ordinare" Translation: I would like to order ... Pizza Now here in the US, I've heard this pizza referred to as a "Blonde ... joke that I'm not going to say in my blog for fear of offending my yellow

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  , and that means something - unfortunately, I can't go back in time and ... surprisingly, I actually had possessed a large amount of this knowledge in high ... evacuated my brain. Every question I missed in Protobowling with Paolo was a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  in fall 2022. god, I can't wait.   ... since I was last in that room."  "it's been a year since..." in the past ... restored even when we're back in-person. i'm at peace with it—i've had a year

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  existed. I had never known anyone to compete in any of them, or even ... beyond   While in Almaty I also made some time to visit the local ... accredited postsecondary institutions in America. I spoke to ~30 local Kazakh

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  week we’ll be happy, and then we can write a blog about how scheduled and ... -motivated work). But in the times when these pressures do exist, and I am not as ... other people while I’m in the room -- that I’m always happy. And I say

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  apartment in Hell's Kitchen a mile from Times Square. I can't say how much ... how much time I've spent finding new places in the city. Everything is ... I started obsessively checking the news sometime in middle school. I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  home, I have not stepped foot in the gym. For 2020, I want to see how ... 'll most likely take progress pics throughout the year just so I can see how ... /play Just so I can see how this year went. I like keeping track of the media I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  we fell in love in october that’s why i love fall looking at the ... second fall I’ve spent in a place with real seasons. Or that every other ... *gasp* enjoy the problem solving process.  I love how I have free time to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  gathering in Allston. I’m at Life Alive in Cambridge now, writing this, while ... . The runners were going about the pace I’d shoot for in a three-mile race ... MIT communities I’d seen so far, and how I could join one -- I wouldn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  This was originally going to be a post about how now that I’m in ... how happy and in awe I am. Logically, I’ve known that this city is ... this, I failed to account for the fact that I am now in the most

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  this time. In theory, pretty simple. In theory.[/caption] As you can ... , you’ve probably wondered: How does MIT make so many pumpkins every year ... [annotation note="I may be wrong about this estimate because I’ve never been on

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023