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• Blog / How to Human

  An (overdue) blogger update! I'm trying to come out of writer's block lol

  

  've written... I just started the first draft two weeks ago."]for several months ... with my friends, I just didn't feel the need to post about it for the ... . Hanging out in a dorm lounge with Song, and joking around for the rest of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  academic environment, you most often turn to the people around you for ... return. i see someone stressed, upset, and feel the urge to comfort them ... don’t want to intrude on the space they need. so i stay silent. and

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  figured I'd say hello to all of you lovely folks in the style of Qiaochu Y. '12's post from the time of yore with an Ask Me Anything! If you've never seen an AMA before: in the comments below, feel free to ask any

  • by Phi A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  hours, maybe. But as for this particular piece of the internet, I haven ... for me. There’s the very obvious physical places--the neighborhood we ... be off the meal plan and experience cooking for myself. Simmons has a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  wishing for the things i hate to disappear; what i’m really looking for is ... ; it’s mostly when i know for a fact that they have the social bandwidth ... even when the Important Real-World Problems affect me directly - for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  reading the blogs for years and visiting campus during CPW, I thought I had ... many sweatshirts you have on, they are no match for the terrible wind ... to go - you certainly have to figure out what works for you. The faster

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  values are the metrics they best understand for me some of those loud ... been procrastinating for a while now, and would much rather take the time ... 's a tube that goes through the middle of you, just like there is for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  sophomore year in 1935. Luckily for the history of organic chemistry, he was ... for the tests to be rescheduled . Upon his graduation in Spring 1936 ... years. He also won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, solo, in 1965, for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  turned out to have everything I was looking for: in addition to the awesome ... applied for work in the field of education. After considering a number of ... Employer: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology As a consequence of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  's people who've been in the industry for decades now. I can't imagine that ... return offer, I could take it, or I could try to look for some other job ... , the thought of doing this for years and years after I graduate, you know

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opera No, not the browser

  

  . And hey, while we're all waiting for the Opera to show up a little ... One of my housemates here in Boston is a grad student at the MIT Media Lab, which is great for me because it gives me an excuse to go visit

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick update A short entry, a quick link, and I become Seth Cohen.

  

  In honor of my trip to the OC, Ben made this for me: And the link of the day: The Art of Problem Solving (more on this next entry) A longer update soon...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How awesome is MIT Physics?

  The MIT Physics Department is one of the best places in the world for research and education in physics. Fourteen of their alumni and eight of their faculty have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  for me is to do work as early as possible to minimize the late nights ... all 3C2 combinations, the common denominator for happiness was sleep ... life at MIT so much better. And for a lot of you these steps will look

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  be engulfed in the so-called MIT bubble. Which basically means, getting so into the hectic rhythm of classes, psets, extracurricular commitments, that "soon it's like, 'Oh yeah! The rest of the world! I forgot it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  and sends pictures of the sky for signs of exoplanets. [caption id ... then gives a prediction of what it thinks the image would look like if ... professors."]UROP[/annotation] with the MIT Kavli Institute of Astrophysics and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  I'm the undergraduate assistant for a Freshman Learning Community (FLC) hosted by the Global Languages department and MISTI (MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives). The FLC, which began this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  years on the same floor, and in the same room for three of those four ... reading this because you might be looking to move here in the future, or ... them either way. You can check out the MIT's page on housing for more

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  for launching such bands as Nirvana and The Shins. * Rain Man, Die Hard ... Weigel's two silver medals in the summer Olympics for speed walking ... ). * The time it took for Billy Mitchell, father of three and president of a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  XC is Sexy

  

  Forest Hills. (For you subway people, we took the Red line to Downtown ... made the trip to cheer for our friends on the MIT Cross Country teams ... tent, not to be confused with the tents for the Amherst, Bates, BC, Brown

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 11, 2005