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• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  essentially all my various communities that I'm a part of. I hadn't realized how large my web extended, how many people I actually do consider a friend. I think I often forget that the world is a lot bigger than my intimate ten

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Re-Introduction of Sorts Hi, my name is Bryan.

  

  years and here I am a senior at MIT. Interesting how that happens. Somewhere in between kindergarten and senior year, I realized that dance was ... When I was in kindergarten, I failed dance class. Good thing that

  • by Bryan
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  jokingly believes that you do check in on me, seeing just how much i ... comfort in. i know you didn't do it on purpose. i know that it was all in ... know how to lose friends with grace. in a way, i am thankful for you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  to do: catch up. I needed to bridge the gap that was created by a ... would do anything to change that. to just be better.  I don’t know how to achieve that or how to get to a point where I know how to approach problems

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  to the skills I have learned as a midshipman in the ROTC program. The ... . During my time in NROTC, I have learned how to budget my time efficiently ... future as an officer in the fleet. MIDN 3/c Robert Block is a sophomore at

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  choose to enroll somewhere else. That's a statistic. But zooming in, there ... process, is, of course, a two-way street. You get to choose where to apply ... choice is yours -- which school is the best fit for you? We knew coming in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  definitely a possibility. In fact, a lot of people do that to avoid packing ... , congratulations! You have a lot to be proud about. From experience, I can say that ... campus, which I am still very, very grateful for.  In addition to that

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  ; Rapid Fire Lore that I think is cool but wouldn’t commit a whole section ... !] ... This blog is a long time coming. I initially anticipated making this on ... [/annotation] but that’s a story for another time. The thing I remember most from my

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

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  dearly. My own history with whiteboards, how I use them in my life, and ... ’m starting this off with the how-to guide. All that other content is down below the how-to :P This is a guide for how to restore an old, dingy

  • by Phi A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  could not enter the US with me. Then I had a crazy idea. This was in late ... was set. I already knew that Niagara Falls has a pedestrian bridge that ... they didn't let me in at the border? How would I carry my suitcases all

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  -digit decimal figure. How anticlimactic. This last semester passed by in a flash ... I slept. I slept voraciously. I slept with a vigor to make up for ... to find a semester's worth of rushing over to Building 68 to turn in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  that there is one puzzle in the universe you have not solved: what did ... instinct is to do what you ALWAYS do when you have a question about her MIT ... days. Dates associated with saints. You realize that she is interested in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Schedule Is Awesome & it's better than Snively's / Sometimes completely unrelated entries are posted in pairs.

  

  No class Fridays, the end. (actually the above screenshot is a lie ... enhancing acoustic quality. 4.502: Design Scripting. A new class, this one is ... . This is a weekly nighttime graduate seminar on 'Responsive Cities' which

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  ="Munimuni is a band that uses a lot of idiomatic Tagalog, which is part of why I ... from other Philippine languages, but in practice is more like a synonym ... graduation requirements in MIT is the HASS Concentration, a group of related

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  -six back to back 4:45 miles.  How do they do it? The answer is that they ... what I am proud of, is the fact that I've managed to put in these hours ... For most people, sprinting a mile in under 5 minutes is physically

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Released TODAY @ 6:28 p.m.

  

  hours and a couple minor things may change. (This is also why I gave you ... click refresh 200 times in a minute. You might get carpal tunnel! And you ... year, the most in our history. (Again) As a result, our admit rate this

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 14, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  bedsheets in 351. I stayed in that bed for days at a time during my first IAP ... I’ve learned to accept that my life can be in shambles. Being a human ... night and ate a single meal a day. I lost 10 pounds in 2 months, wasting

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  . Keeping in mind that I'm doing entirely molecular/cellular neuroscience, my ... OCW site, and how much fun it is to do MIT psets. Hey, I've got some ... elementary/middle school, I would take a book, sit in an unoccupied section

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  doing a urop over the summer as working at NIH? I was thinking about different options next summer... thanks." In response, I have to say that my ... far less to do in terms of taking care of myself when I'm at home! There

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  for a scholarship to do research in Heidelberg next year; she said that ... January 12 Hostel Colonial House, Quito In retrospect, I do not ... TelefériQo is a steep cable car that travels up Volcán (volcano) Pichincha

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014