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• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  really into it. I would frequently ask for advice from a friend, Lex '00 ... share a few particular stories, of cases where I remember more ... Peter and I went back to Peter's place, where he lives with a few other

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  I’ve been back on campus for about a month and a half now, and it ... " align="alignnone" width="768"] a picture from when I went to a nearby park ... the classics! I was only a ten-minute walk away during the summer, and I

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• 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…

  

  adventure down memory lane. And for those of you who I haven't told a billion ... may remember Matt '08 from Sweet Transvestite) for a little under a year ... . While I've moved on a created a new life for myself, they have the same

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  -MIT-student fashion, I forgot to respond.  For context, I’m chomps - a foodie and '25 ... Jess: This is a guest post by my friend Grace Z. '25! I met her ... , good food, and all MIT assorted things. I invited her to write a post

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  '10: Hi. I’m Minh. You can call me Minnie, or Minhsie, or any version ... entries, but the short version of the story is that I’m currently a freshman ... ’s only all-female dormitory. MIT women choose to live here for a variety of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  as a pumpkin. Tradition demands it.)For a moment, I realized maybe I ... place — from kids who can optimize a candy route through twenty ... Confession: I had never been trick-or-treating.  Not once. Not as a

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  its work or its academics, but for moments where I can sit in someone ... years since I had been back in Loop, a hall I had lived in for a semester ... night of freshman fall. It's where I saw Inception for the first time and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  repeating the affirmations does kind of help. I've had many a night where I ... got to a point where, in a moment of despair, I got up and wrote "CODING ... among my friends for the past year, mostly because when I found it, I was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  website and puts them into a much more readable format, where you can sort ... this past Tuesday that I visited a daycare for the first time. I was ... was my Tuesday :D I'm still a complete novice, but I can see the shape

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  for my phone from a box of free phone covers on the fourth floor ... For several weeks now, I've been actively intending to write about FASAP, an advising seminar for MIT freshmen that has not one, not one-and-a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  learned (one year ago!) that I can be both an astronomer and a public ... dangling off towards the garbage can. There's a box sitting on my otherwise ... three pillowcase-less pillows. I can't remember the last time I just sat

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  this summer (1, 2), and I have just returned from a great, thought ... . For example, I attended a session about ethical admissions practices ... demystify what admissions officers do. I think that for many students, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  cpw is pretty cool tho :D it's not perfect, but it sure is fun

  

  (truly a feat for someone who is both asian and from hawaii), but mit has ... than most schools for maximum flexibility). i have never seen such a ... i seem to be physically incapable of writing blogs in a timely

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 28, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  time dilation to the Infinite, and beyond

  

  -dilated, where I stop and think for a second and look back at how much has passed ... where my first class is a 10(:05)am. I shouldn’t have to mention that time ... obnoxious. If I wake up, it’s not because of a clock, but instead purely

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  was a Course 6 major from the start, fairly confident that I wanted to ... got back from Africa, I flew straight to San Francisco, where I crashed ... in addition to MIT's language classes to reach a point where I could

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  semester where I can breathe a bit more, and I've found that the #1 way ... ?   "Greetings from Chile, where I am observing with the ... . I'm kind of awestruck at how you can go from "this galaxy is

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  've had a lot to do and thus unsurprisingly, I've kept pretty busy. Yes, since my last post about my time in California for LiveScribe, I've flown ... flier miles would've been a good idea.) I spent the last week and a half

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  prime MIT ring-buying. Using imagery representing events from their first ... , appointed a ring committee consisting of members from the classes of 1930 ... graduate from Tech, has a good tough hide. But neither of these were American

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• 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 ... ? Anybody at all? 6.270 is a LEGO robot programming class that takes place during IAP. Not Mindstorms, but just tons and tons of LEGOs, sensors, and a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  science journalist. I went there just to get a feel for what a career in ... MIT, with a unique talent for both writing and astrophysics. Perhaps you ... . Last Thursday, I attended a Science Journalism panel sponsored by the MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007