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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  act, be your own person and make good choices. I'm here to tell you how ... freshmen to cook with them, or to be in a food co-op with them. (yes, I ... of how much we love what we do. But on some level I don't think it

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  I do here. I love my UROP. I can't imagine how my college life would ... would enroll, percentage-wise), but generally it ranges. I'm sure they ... . I like that I have learned how to do a lot of things, especially

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  ’t work. I have had many umbrellas destroyed by the wind in Cambridge and ... ones in my size (I have big feet...). When I finally did find them, they ... learned this the hard way. I finally gave in and spent a little more for

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  creepy. He asked if I would take a picture of him in a costume he’d just ... , recording—all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in ... can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  answer blog that I mentioned. People would come in and they would ask ... ? Chelsea: Um, well, I’m Chelsea. I’m a junior in course 21E. 21E is something ... , computer science. I am in your house because you, uh, invited me here

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  I'll be gone from MIT forever (?) in five months ... would likely never become anything on their own. I have a similar thing ... have been floating around in my head for several months while I stressed

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  of being in the class. Imagine how excited I was to have made the cut ... . But anyway - Now that I'm in the IAP EMT class, I get to experience the ... being in pain myself. Undoubtedly a nice change, I must say. Having just

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  . for instance, i remember when i was in elementary school, my parents would drop me off at the gym and i would run laps around the track, and ... my housemates would be good people or not, but i ended up having a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  So I'm currently at NACAC in New Orleans. I'll post more about the ... has changed over the years. When I joined Facebook, in 2005, there were ... ’s mission and role in people’s lives. So that's one thing that I'd like to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  Presentation in which student-designed products were presented. -- I was in the ... . 7:30PM; Program Begins And how else would the presentation kick off ... rode a few years back along the shores of a beach in Nigeria. By rode, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  my dorm just in time for the big day. I dug around in my closet for the rest, and set off to 2.009 lecture (where I would be one of only 2 people ... -less gloves...I even dyed my hair...and I was totally in character. I basically

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  Indulge me for a moment. How many times have we seen the movie in ... dishonored him by stepping on his sneakers in a crowded auditorium. Why do I ... without the help of another living mammal in 1966... less I digress.) In my

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  more than just a haha???). I would expertly position myself in the ... in a few hours than I have in a few months (I'll blame writer's block ... -lighted many times, I was still definitely in love with him because I could still

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  Ethiopian scarves that I have. Mostly, I’ve just learned how to carry home in ... you might find in a BuzzFeed headline. (I’ll do my best.) Since I ... defining “Home”. It’s something I didn’t really know I would have to do. It

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  what I wanted to do. I felt like it would allow me to doing something in ... anything I would want to do in the public sector would be related to public ... . What follows is the very long and detailed crisis I had in picking my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  said in one of my comments in the last thread, I wish people would stop ... I think you guys set a record for ben.mitblogs.com - 353 comments in ... prepared for the haters, but I let it go. No matter how good and honest one

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  I hadn't been sick in years. I mean sure, I've had the occasional ... ago, I was out sick with the flu. I frankly don't know how I had lasted ... regardless of how I avoided the plague for so long, the fact of the matter is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  's conjecture sums up the year nicely, as of right now. I came in, as countless other MIT undergrads probably have, relatively sure of how smart I was ... Throughout my 5-ish months as a blogger for the Institvte, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.270 What's a 6.270?

  

  needed for the webcast. What you can't see in the picture is what I ... before understands what I'm talking about. I don't have much time now, but in the tradition of my last several blog entries, consider this entry

  • by Snively '11
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  I spent this summer in a relatively “chill” state. My UROP that I did ... and on my own hours, which was very useful when I was in Pacific Time ... finished a tv show in its entirety; i hope this will be the first. i am

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020