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• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  that would have wifi. I walked there, checked online with a few other ... would regularly memorize directions. When I was travelling the west coast ... resisting the machine, and how I liked my finger-sensing button. My phone was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  this.  My mind drifted from the exam, eventually. How far would you go back, if you could? What would you do differently?  I often wish I had ... certain I would’ve been happier if I had just taken more biology classes

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  Divorce on Thursday, so I'm feeling a little, how do you say, francophone at ... . Had I first gone to Party City, I might have realized that all the graduation/4th of July decorations were on sale, but I chose to look forward

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  . When I took a gap year before coming to MIT, my friends at home would ... because I thought it would make me look more attractive. I wanted to be thin ... from home, which was when I began exploring how male I actually felt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  procedures (e.g. "How would you separate sodium and potassium current in an ... I ate lunch today with Mollie, and we talked about different classes that we've taken (I'm a course 9 major and she's a double major in course

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  gulped down the wetness in the air like I imagine a fish would if it, and ... 't know what I thought would happen to me: that I'd freeze? That I'd get ... knew they would be. I came to MIT completely unprepared. My background in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  I was happy with how fall turned out in the end, I was miserable for ... class this semester. I took it mostly because it would help me when I take ... made the experience so much better than it would have been otherwise. I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  it on a shelf, I would If I could explain myself, I would Let me ... MEng, but I think I would've felt the same no matter what. I needed a ... enough of it, even accounting for how MIT will change. Then again: did I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  disappointed. how did i lose motivation so quickly?? the surge of excitement that ... i would finally seize these couple of months to explore new interests ... encourages a listlessness that i can't banish, no matter how [annotation note

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Saturday Night in Simmons it's so busy here tonight [i really need to study or go to sleep]

  

  pool table above the Simmons lobby. I would explain the rules but I ... Y'all. Simmons is bustling tonight. I realized while going to get new shoes for Gatas [explained below] that this would make a great blog

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  ’d have to charge it for half an hour, and by then I would have had another ... .[/caption] For the past while, everything I could have written about would have ... i’m gonna keep this short so i can get to posting real content again

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  would happen in my life between then and now. I changed my lifestyle, my ... fail some exams, would be staying up all night to finish p-sets I didn’t know how to do, and would relish in scoring “average” at MIT. Shockingly

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  On the first night of my mandatory vacation, I walked to the beach ... hideous polo shirts. I peered across the pier with my peers, homonymically. Overhead, a countable infinity of little stars twinkled, and I pondered their

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  . I was worried how people would accept me. I was different, and I was ... Allah, even if it’s not necessarily how I thought they would.” What does hijab ... Cormick’s dining hall? Or do I talk about how safe I feel walking down the Infinite

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  have to listen to it as soon as possible. after all, ignorance is how i ... about colleges and decisions; when one came up, i would try to steer the ... i set up alarms too early than too late. an alarm that's too early

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  changed in life. For example, I realized how little I know and how uncertain ... , I thought I knew how to handle life. In fact, I had a clear vision in ... good. I look back on my fall classes and sometimes shudder at how little

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  feeling dreadful that I would have to wait another 2 months, and treated it ... . I soon forgot about my sorrows because of how much I loved my school ... an open mind. I am so glad to reflect on how I was able to grow as a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  reflection that I was, in fact, fairly curious as to how I actually spend my time, and how that measures up to my expectations. Even though I was ... intention was for it to be an accurate reflection of how I actually spend my

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  out there, then I'm making good use of my time at MIT and it would prove ... community no matter how hard I'm struggling. But, of course, in my efforts to ... My brain's been on overdrive from the moment I stepped foot onto MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  website! In particular, the Energy Initiative has been a key player in ...  of Energy, which has been talked about quite a bit on campus, explores how energy ... Laboratory - is an architecture project laboratory that explores how to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009