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• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  . I didn’t know what to do with myself or what was important to me ... that could guide me - only an emptiness that needed to be filled by ... guilty about when it brings me joy. I learn to value time to decompress

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  you had asked me why I was writing the book, I probably would have ... don’t know why the kidnapping on the news stuck with me the way it did ... near-universal surprise a little amusing. They’d ask how I’d done it, and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  and tightly wound up in my thoughts. this blog overwhelmed me because i ... packing i had a lot of thoughts about my time at this dorm bottled up in me ... me, and the culture that they had built.[/annotation] but, at the very

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  the main reason I decided to study physics was that it gave me intuition ... /no record, and a friend convinced me to take abstract algebra. in hindsight I ... , physics majors are employable! nearly half the physics majors in my department each

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  espresso, by Sidney Amos Paige: Nearly three years ago, I was writing my ... : Prospective students often ask me to share the most memorable essays I’ve read ... /early mornings, it was clear that the platform had consumed me. It became

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  A few weeks ago, I visited a friend at Harvard. She snuck me into the ... me of East Campus, and when she turned on the red lights I noticed the ... . Something about their intensity just draws me in. “But no, I’m a Pisces.” “Oh

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  of that misfortune made [annotation note="and consequently, me ... note="lucky me, though, they still healed. so what does that say about my ... classes I had taken at MIT, gave me a lot of prior experience. So, even

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  world. I remember the days when my mom would ask 7-year-old me what I ... environment completely foreign to me and see how well I could do. I arrived at ... receiving my ticket granting me white privilege I got to read about the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  , we are nearing the end of our series Introducing the Class of 2013. An ... valedictorian of Chisum High School in Lamar County near Paris, have been awarded ... located on Malcolm X Boulevard in Roxbury near Madison Park High, Paul has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  possible too. Any more would have burned me out before the end, and any less ... semester stupid. Unfortunately for me, there is no overlap between the ... Assembly. All of which are time sinks, the first one measuring up to nearly

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  until 8:15 because I needed nearly an hour to flat-iron my hair and apply ... brand-sponsored twentysomethings who taught me how to layer my jackets and ... six years younger than me, but he's sometimes mistaken for the older

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  character Moushumi. If you've read this book, please feel free to send me an ... !) be blogging about that in the near future. In the meantime--here's a ... so on. lists/paragraphs You tell me how this one's going

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  follow what appears to be a consensus of bloggers before me and adhere to ... : Natalie ‘18 estimated a balmy four hours per pset, while Jenn ‘16 gave me a ... my Surface tablet, which lets me erase and rearrange at organizational

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  overwhelming number of options that I nearly drowned in at the start of this year ... only took two weeks to drive me insane, so I quickly dropped my meal plan ... impressively good pizza that is more than enough to last me till evening

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  Simmons hall to see the dining hall, and security stopped me and told me ... something in the near future about what we presented on! We had fun with the ... even came back with Kaylee and me to East Campus after the last day of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  during Christmas. We got to stay near a beach, and watched the waves pound ... temporarily robbed of air. I watched the decisions page load before me, my heart ... machine that was roaring above the ocean, pushing me further and further

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  Blogging, for me, has never been about immediacy. Life as it happens ... five precious seconds of my life. 10:25 pm: Someone has sent me an email ... instead, because Matt McGann does not pay me for recycling. 10:26 pm: Should

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  offers you near complete freedom in choosing where you live. Whether you ... 's taught me how to keep walking, even when I'm going against the wind. It's showed me exactly the value of knowing exactly how many smoots away I am

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  doomsday until tomorrow. Another class that almost killed me in the past ... -winning composer John Harbison. I remember one time, a book was recommended to me on ... nearly impossible for canon-writing. Schoenberg was kind of stupid, but I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  Sheng passed the question on to me. And I got to answer it in the middle ... whispered to me, "Do you know who that was? That was Phil Sharp!" Oops. I ... 't spit near the physics department without hitting a Nobel laureate. Being

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005