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• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  year. In accordance with my newfound wisdom, I’m doing something that ... void of companionship taught me that. At MIT, I rarely do things alone ... to believe still is that some of my parent’s orders in my younger years

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  .500: Senior Seminar in Music, but since I've never worked in a small ... 'm writing a blog entry to you just to put off the fact that I have to study 20 ... ) named Seven. I wonder if that makes his name 73000? Dre was also named

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  his personal spiritual encounter?" and "As a scientist, how can I ... of the problem with Christianity today, in this speaker's view, is that ... 're at the beach in the evening and the sky is a very pretty red, you might

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  armchairs and a big TV. This week, I learned that to be a great composer in ... that I played that piece as a kid. Muscle memory is a magical phenomenon ... ). I loved having a class that taught me to listen, and was all set to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  how horrible that kind of situation really is when you consider perspective on things. A horrible situation is what happened in New Orleans. How ... housing system is a bit unique in that, in most dorms, students (or at least

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  -three. What matters is, do I feel like I’m in a weird valley? Not really. Or ... delivery I ordered to arrive. The sun was out today, fully, in a way it hasn’t been in a while, and I’m really into it. I think the time I spent in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  would be worrying about how much stuff there is still to do tonight." I think it's true. ----- Five days ago, I was tucked away in a lounge on ... !) ...but I discovered from trial of fire that six classes is A LOT - I took

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  have them take a look at me. Being sick in college is not fun, no matter ... I think at that point I was pretty much speaking like Yoda. In fact, I ... I should also mention that this is all covered under basic insurance

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  MIT. What’s it like? Is it hard? How much sleep do I get? These tend to ... and we decided it’d be worth a daytrip. One thing I noticed is that my ... me a curveball: what do I do for fun. MIT may be known for its academic

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  there is a ddr (dance dance revolution) machine in the basement of ... found a level i wanted to beat in my remaining week at mit. it was grand escape, a song that features prominently in weathering with you, one of my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  things I didn't do except that the to-do list is never fully checked off ... learned a lot solving problems in class. I hope to actually take the class ... concert  I went to a chamber music concert with Holden M. ’25. I do not

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  know how to do this, but why is this important?! And why should I care ... 've realized how much I love it. <3 Every algorithm we've learned in the ... A couple entries ago, I described 6.046 (Design and Analysis of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  semester at MIT. In retrospect, I realize that - in spite of reading the ... controllable - it's a process that you barely realize is happening. Growth comes in spurts and spasms, and it can hurt. The transition is not a straight

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Letterboxd for movies i watched on the plane Do I... lack media literacy?

  

  the subway. Deep in a blog draft that will never see the light of day, I ... [/annotation], I got off the plane in SOUTH AFRICAAAAAA. I’m working on a project ... Supreme, I had an epiphany that I felt the need to share, like on a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 17, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  homework I could have finished in that hour, but I quickly realize how much ... excuse for me to revel in the fact that I miss my little brother a ton ... get a point across.) The essay is your chance to show that you're not a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!

  

  do I mean by that exactly? Well since you asked, here is a list of ... as though I have consumed some local areas. That is incorrect. It ... don't sleep, and perhaps that Chris M. is pretty smooth with the ladies

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  open, because that is how you make friends in college. I met with my ... Once, while working as a cashier, I noticed that a customer’s total ... told me that, why yes, it is, in fact rather “difficult”... Sweet! (He

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway

  

  is that when i initially wrote this i didn't realize that allison hadn ... actual point is that I’m unfamiliar with snow and ice. So when my ... community and hang out/support each other in a group. i'm personally not in a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  in mind when I wrote this, but one year is a lot of time to hold on to ... joke well in advance, and is currently staging a protest in form of a soreness that has persisted over the last two hours. My room is a mess of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  myself. I've been surprised to learn that there is a community of students ... didn't take a single one. Instead, I buried myself in AP Government and ... aversion to STEM continued as I went to college and pursued a major/minor in

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018