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• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  , dragging my feet and bouncing my feelings off of anyone who would listen. I ... . If I went with them, maybe I would cheer up? So I got dressed, ran ... conversations, I’d forgotten to let myself feel anything. I was shocked by how

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  this and helping me think about how to formulate it! I’ve been very ... were “easy” ones: how do I register for classes? If I use the last of the toilet paper in the hall bathroom, should I replace it and how? What’s the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  nervous about how the semester would go. Yes, I heard it wasn't the end of ... to get through it all. I wasn't sure how I would get through some weeks ... a long blog about both, but I felt it would be better to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  thing or two I've picked up on how to deal with these weeks. One might ... weeks. I find that it really comes and goes in cycles, and this year it ... weeks I will have spent a few trillion hours taking three midterms (two of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  rock band CDs and video game/TV/movie soundtracks. In high school, I ... I learned about student rush. It operates a bit differently based on ... limited number of as-yet-unclaimed tickets that you can buy for $20-40, let

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  would have experienced. i think what i'm most proud of is how i'm pushing ... reminiscent of the time in high school where i would overcommit myself in my ... creative concepts. how do i rediscover my relationship with art—one in which

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• 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 awesome people I'm meeting (and delicious food I'm eating) next week. But right now, I'd like to discuss something that's been on my mind for a few

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  sometimes, I would show up at her room and cry about how tired I was, how ... deserved to walk those hallowed halls of MIT. I would NOT have made it ... classmates out when they were being sexist in my group project. I learnt how to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.

  

  entire kilometer to help dedicated fans watch World Cup soccer. Now, I was all ready to write an entry last night on how some cities in Germany are ... planning and public transportation. Ling '07, Bao '07 and I visited two such

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  to Boston from a family vacation in Toronto, I took the T back to MIT for free like I always do. When I first came to MIT I was terrified of public transportation. It was only a few years ago that I stopped taking

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  enjoyed something – and didn’t just feel that I “should” do it – was how I ... process a zillion times before, and I can’t imagine that I would have been ... things I would have loved to take part in this semester that I was simply

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  and competition. He's a really smart guy, and I found out about this cool post he put up on Medium and asked if I could reformat it and post ... in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I hope you enjoy

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  Attention Span Documentary: [annotation note="look at how the f and i in that ... Before I got to MIT, I had never really made anything. I saw something on the admissions website about a Maker Portfolio and got nervous

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Useful items to bring for dorm room

  

  which to furnish their (or their student's) dorm room. While I am not going to list obvious things, like soap and shampoo, I want to say that ... your favorite Puffs Facial Tissues or Cottonelle Wipes, I'd save the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  and i thought about how absurd it was that i was even allowed to be ... want on campus at any time, and i did not realize how unusual this was ... ago i would’ve said something like adult life sucks and you should just

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on DesigNerds DesigNerds: Product Design TV

  

  So after getting a few questions and comments about DesigNerds, I ... ." cool, eh? There's no website yet for the project, but you can check out ... , SP.778. Melis asked where I found out about DesigNerds. Strangely

  • by Bryan
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  Here’s how things have been going lately: I run a lot, I eat too much free pizza, and I’ve spent three of the past seven evenings at Harvard. My friend taught me how to lift weights, and my extracurricular

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m still reading applications 5 years later...

  

  , and by how many cups of coffee I could consume until it was ... far edge of the Eastern time zone), and I would eventually wander a few ... dinner? I shouldn’t make another coffee, should I? I usually would. I’m not

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  how privileged I am. It would make me feel guilty, in a sense, to be ... when I didn’t know how to begin, he asked me what I, ideally, wanted to ... I’ll figure it out. About how the job interview process, and all of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  , and planned that it would take about a third of the hours it did, so I ... shops and how I exist within them. I was at the moto fest with a white guy who I’d taught how to weld, a nice student, good at taking criticism

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022