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• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  giddy rush I felt in Alaska whenever my family would pull over into a ... Summer in Alaska, I learned this July, is an exuberant, unrestrained ... , if aimless. I re-read all the Newbery-winning books I loved in

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  20 Things I Learned In 2020 from a course 20 who is in her 20s

  

  . The people in your life should make your world bigger, not smaller ... someone I didn't get a chance to say goodbye to :( Oftentimes, there is a ... communication. Intent is important, but it's not everything. Constantly check in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 1, 2021
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  lights. (I was temp'ed in EC during CPW) How much is the real MIT like that ... and 8 nights was the itinerary, if I recall correctly. We would camp in ... if I thought DEAPS would be fun. Would it be fun or would it be a waste

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  "sure, why not?" In fact, I was labouring under the very mistaken ... choice for several trips I took to Boston in high school, and we never got ... later], I've already seen them like four times." Ha ha ha how I was wrong

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  factors in the mysterious element of wind chill.  I was graciously accepted by IDEO for the winter, with the stipulation that I would be working at ... possible before returning to campus. I want to share what I learned in my

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请

  

  Almost 11 years ago, I wrote a blog post called Applying Sideways that was my [annotation note="Audacious, in retrospect, given that I had ... give some advice on how prospective students —  and their parents

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021
• Blog / Financial Aid

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  A couple months ago, I wrote about how to make money at MIT. Much to ... , etc." "meal plan is so overpriced" "I try to only eat in the dining ... things cost adult-living-in-a-major-city prices. On one hand, I want to go

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  this post): 1. I have not blogged in quite a while. 2. I finally have a ... get spoiled for me in the comments. [Important sidenote: I watch almost ... , I assume) - so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE no spoilers in the comments! If

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

   size (i.e. how many) points there are in the shadows of $A$, can we get a ... . Where sometimes, I would solve a homework problem in 18.701: Algebra I ... part) Take your favorite set of finitely many points out in the plane, i

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  , I am cool enough to now say, “I am enrolled at MIT!” In fact, I just ... wonder how many people actually get what I mean by palm :-p). After a two ... doors in the infinite corridor until I found: After the chat group

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  seen in my life). His catch phrase (he would hate me for calling it that ... simple it is. I make it every week or so for my family in the evenings and ... into sorbet. I feel like at this point, you would start to wonder if you

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  by Joyce Carol Oates that we read in AP English. When I read it, I ... she taught Jonathan Safran Foer how to write, and then I realized she ... --getting home! No, really. I was in four different countries in one day! I was all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  usual author is at home in H-burg, I get to tell you about my recent ... weeks ago, and decided to see how big of a fire he and his step-brother-in ... night almost ended in a sketchy, sketchy way, except that I am

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  MIT, how time flies!) I did a game design class, early solar system ... calc, I just thought it would be interesting), quaternions, a queer event ... middle school and high school! While I didn't do anything worth while in

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  ) in late September, and that I was outside from 2PM-5PM, I'm pretty sure ... , sunburn I did. Anyway. This entry is a PSA for the Overnight Program, in ... grandmother, for instance, would much rather hear about that nice boy I'm going

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  picture of my old room, with my key: and here is my room now. i am in a ... doubles. (i was in my room last year because covid policy meant no one was in a double, but this year we do have people in doubles, so i am now in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  for the first time in a week, I also thought about how lucky I was to be ... could feel the excitement bubbling in the air as I lined up in the hotel ... colour food, like edible henna. (I forgot to mention this in the previous

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  summer to prepare! Coming in, I had absolutely no idea how weird managing ... thought we would, so I have to be careful this year to ensure that we don ... , depending on how busy things get. At this point, I have no idea, but my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  , that she would make for me and serve hot. She soaked the dried beans in water for a whole night, and then she would prepare the soymilk machine in ... in a supermarket, I finally found the unsweetened kind, picked it up

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  since I was interested in learning more about how to administer AFS, I ... design I'm going to write up). Or either of the psets in my other two ... with how AFS and Kerberos work. In the Zone Cell Challenge, you start

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008