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• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  --a storm, tornado, [annotation note="In 8th grade I was supposed to go to ... 's here where I got my first chilaquiles (my favorite food?) in Mexico and ... inside of the house, but it was definitely pretty. I always get weird in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  problems — but in the end, we did end up solving many of them. I can ... stressful problems in the future, I can handle it. As Laura put it in a post ... ) clubs I’ve been a part of (both by being in leadership positions, and in

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• FAQ / Afford

  How do I contact Student Financial Services?

  Contact information for Student Financial Services (including phone, fax, email, and mail) can be found on the SFS contact page.
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  which point in a job interview can I ask about salary?"  Stay posted. May ... popular, in fact, that I'm told there was a 50-person waitlist, and my ... me got photographed, so I'm crossing my fingers that I might be in a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• 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 / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  France, and ended up in Spain. Because I was asleep, I don’t remember much ... parking, which I had never seen in a city layout before. It felt like those ... silly getting that cuisine while in Europe, but I really wanted it and

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 11, 2024
• 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 / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  stations set up in Maseeh, I decided on the safest option there is: a freshly ... ate: It looked like I had waken in on an asian-inspired dinner menu ... consensus is that this is in fact the best dining hall on campus. What I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  Wallet receipts in my inbox, I’ve spent an average of only $4 per day on ... squash, football, or chess - people who can play Set faster that I can deal ... to major in anything evenly divisible by three. I am not making any of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• 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 / 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

  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 / 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