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• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  dorms, it can be hard for freshmen to get singles, since upperclassmen get ... done with caution during the winter when leaving windows open for a long

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Children of Eden, seek for your garden. You and your children to come, someday to come home.

  

  i was going to write a post about Thanksgiving and Drop Date and not dropping 18.02, but it was boring. So I deleted it. Don’t complain; I’ve spared you the…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  For our very last semester at MIT, and our very last course 6 class ... best bet to be able to spend our last semester at MIT pursuing and ... the list we made in this post. Come up with an idea for a project

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  entirely trustworthy employee as long as you don't ask me for the time in a ... concept that you've struggled with for a long time. B. You remember the ... elusive. (South for me in both cases.) C. A friend/family member threatens

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  (at least through dimensional analysis) best bound we can hope for, we ... was figuring out how to best explain/motivate a concept for other people ... for MITAdmissions Math Month, and thusly there will be some math. And

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to ... undergraduate and graduate classes, fundraise and manage a budget for a research ... before my move, I was told that “nobody [is ever ready for a faculty

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  thinking about writing a blog post about advice for high school seniors but I ... I approached the prompts and my writing will be useful fodder for your essays. For the tl;dr, scroll to the bottom to get my general takeaways

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  best system for me."]Simmons’ lack of floor/wing/suite community ... the past overeating was a problem for me: sometimes I'd have a ... cook for my brother and I. Apart from one summer where I mastered only a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  action would be to e-mail my professor and my TA. After procrastinating for a few hours, I finally hit "send", and away went my request for ... for their help during the semester, etc, and returned to angsting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  for Future Course 6-9s Memes Individually, "Course 6" refers to ... sheep brain. After camp, I forgot about neuroscience for a while, until ... enthralled by the vast opportunities that computer science could unlock for me

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  ] sheet - unvoiced [ʒ] azure - voiced Palatal: This one is hard for me to describe, the best way to think of it is further back behind the alveolar ... three are nasal: for these sounds, there is an obstruction that we make

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  's always conversation surrounding it, if you want to look for it. so i wasn ... . for one, software engineering apps feel very silly. instead of crafting a good application for a dozen or so carefully selected universities

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  some more about the subject, for (1) fun, (2) consolidation, (3 ... McCormick Observatory in Charlottesville, VA, for their first public ... astronomy professor for permission to deliver a 20-minute public talk on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  it, I do want these "superficial" things for comfort and vibe ... anything here. Quantity: ⭐ - This is the reason McCormick is so low for me ... wayyyy too small. There's pretty much only ever two options for a meal and

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  , and try my best to find time for it amid all of the classes and clubs ... entirely, I'm taking this time to recap what I did for the past several ... , make coffee, drag myself over to my desk, code for a couple of hours

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  , and I’ll probably read another book after finals. For now, here are the ... . Learning and understanding my faith was one of my goals for the year, and ... English and Amharic, so it was nice for me to review a little bit of my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  for the best." (all time ever does is pass) "I’ve completed one more ... my younger self for behaving that way. they just had a lot of growing ... unanswered for long periods. maybe it's a bit of a pride thing -- i can't let

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  values are the metrics they best understand for me some of those loud ... . i don’t have much to show for my time in college other than a ...   v. i’ve known for a long time that i perceive other people very

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  spread myself across campus. I stepped into New House for the first time ... little and doing the same for them."]big,[/annotation] ehua, and meeting ... because it's been something that has been on my mind for almost three years

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  'm going back to i'm just here in nyc for a bit _____ m: since i’ve gotten ... be a road i was following and now there isnt r: i think it's the best ... : okay so my take is that mit selects for people that like to or have a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021