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• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  student's obligations year-round."]for a while.[/annotation] and when i was ... yourself a little treat so you can get through the day" is a common phrase i ... help from other people--and actively asking for that help. when you're a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  I'm going to confess something. A bit more than two years ago,  I ... well I needed to do on the next exam to get an A in the class. I thought ... sleepy tomorrow, or should I divide it between days and trust that I'll be

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  ’s an online game where every character has a little avatar and can act ... bad yet. Shuli: Alan and I grabbed a [annotation note="Alan: from 2 AM ... [/annotation] at 6 am, I saw a message tagging me in the Discord, from just a few

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  . #1) Graduate. #2) Paint a mural for The Borderline @ MIT. I got to ... proportions ended up different from the draft. Color I haven't painted a mural ... design, but I didn't want to commit to it for a whole painting. I only

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  Fluid Dynamics for this paper, which I can understand embarrassingly well ... rest I can only describe via hearsay, but you can extrapolate from the ... ideas. I've created a Plexiglas writing pad so that I can stay underwater

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Genshin Impact and a better introduction to me

  

  A couple of months ago, I started playing a video game for the first ... Hnnnnnn, can’t I sleep for another 10 minutes? Good Afternoon Oh sorry, did we schedule a meeting? Good Evening I’m just heading back from

  • by ana~
  • October 7, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  against which all other Oreos can be compared. I'd recommend giving them a ... two flavors, I actually did buy in Canada! I went home for the summer ... 15% hazelnut back". I like hazelnut a lot, so this was a win for me. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  and getting good at it, as if I was holding out for a better goal. In ... it. Would I not find, at MIT, a single anecdote from a single person ... When I was a freshman I joined a plasma physics lab. Plasma physics

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  position so I can do a little more where I can. Anyway, TLDR, CodeIt was ... smoothly. For the second or third minilab we would do on Sundays, I took a ... task at hand. Wednesdays were a lot more hands-off for me, where the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  hours (I arrived at 7, but was supposed to arrive at 1) because we had a ... Strousbridge (?) for about 5 hours, and it did not make me happy. But yea, when I ... about $40 for the weekend, but whatever). Afterwards, I met up with

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  community for a week, was where I saw some of the most unexpected things on a ... the past month, I’ve done everything from holding a ferret in our ... -year learning community in the MIT Morningside Academy for Design where I get to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  . Highly recommend, and I'm super excited for them to be opening a location ... Faneuil Hall, where we entered a store I never thought I'd ever ever ever ... from him in stories for the next thirty years. I'm not entirely sure

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  students because campus is deserted for spring break, but I still had a ... keep it a secret. I was excited! For that week and the week after I was ... drive from my house. In fifth grade my parents and I were driving to my

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  wish. Around 11:30, I absorbed a lot of photons on the way from Random ... the lack of sound judgment, I urge you to see how long you can live on a ... pioneering the latest advances in party technology, I'm slowly becoming a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  't judge me. I've been suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome for a few ... probably deduce from the above subheading, I fell down a bunch of steps the ... revolving doors, bottom of page 5.) If you do, I will totally buy you a pint

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  from time to time. :-) I am also publishing this because (a) I really ... ... they're fun for me, but I don't have any true talent for them... I'm a ... 't come off as arrogant - I just wanted to let you know that you can have a

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  share with a few other engineering-related student groups (I can ... wrath of the shop guys, or a drop in their grades. I can guarantee that ... that may not even be right for you, no one can stop you. But I can tell

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  , auditioning for a musical is basically my worst nightmare: not only can people ... about for a few days wondering what to do. Wednesday night, I told my ... voice, I settled on Colors of the Wind, from Pocahontas, since it's a song

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  products were worth buying. I’d finally developed a healthy dose of marketing ... enjoyed dairy products (I, for one, am a great proponent of cheese ... Growing up, I admit that I watched a decent amount of television. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  . "can we do anything for you? like buy you a coffee or something?" he ... 's something i learned from pretty quickly. i'm a better scientist for it. when ... collecting vinyl for a while, but i've only ever bought one record. it was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025