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• 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
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  hosts at WashU. The conference was attended by nearly 400 US university ... independent college admissions counselors. It was a great opportunity for me to ... me, I got to learn about many different schools worldwide, schools that

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

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  ) informing me that a reclusive-cousin-of-a-friend-of-a-friend used to be a writer for Xena: Warrior Princess and that he could maybe get me that Bruce ... Ruth and me, two of the top five culinary critics in the Boston

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• 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 / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  particularly brutal winter days where the wind very nearly could have knocked me ... email! Abby,   A Google search of MIT MacGregor House led me ... nearly-retired Course 6-1 graduate living in Indianapolis. I assume that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  their excitement is infectious. It's made me realize how excited I am for ... heavily on each word, so bare with me as I'm trying to get back into the ... this somewhere near the top of my list. I am so, so, so, so excited. I

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  frustrating. So why not take a class that requires me to write– why not take a class that lets me write in one of my favorite genres? [annotation note ... for me it’s just a [annotation note="arts graduation requirement"] HASS

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  they helped me think outside of the box to make plans for the near future ... -registration helped me make friends at Harvard and how our friendship has evolved since ... with my friends about my worries. They assured me that nothing was

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  near the start of week 3. Then another hackathon, and then the final ... weirds me out but it turns out that some people still spell it that way and ... open on my browser was the website we were working on. This frustrated me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  bummed out anyways. pset 0, which was supposed to be a warmup, very nearly frustrated me to the point of tears. not a good sign!!11!1 6 ... going to wreck me because the problem sets are really tough, but hopefully

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  the same code all day? All questions that concerned me and the next 40 ... me a through the molasses stereotype of a 9-to-5 desk job. I’ve blended ... : Rush out of the ridiculously muggy apartment. For reasons unknown to me

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018