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• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  remember, in my last post I asked for people to provide me with MIT-related topics to write about. Today's entry was requested by Anonymous (come on ... have the same question. It can be intimidating to go alone to a new place

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

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  So, we had this great idea of going to Shakespeare on the Common, a ... , what could go wrong if we headed down to the Common to see it? On the ... . As a purveyor of primarily wrapped items, they're even nice enough to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  , economists are of course concerned with gathering empirical data to support or ... considerations to cover. Correspondingly, economists deliberate on an additional type of question, the normative (as opposed to the “positive”) or the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  state that I have been reduced to[/caption] For people who aren't caught ... . I lied to someone's parents It was[annotation note="Parents come to ... brain is too sleepy to think, but too awake to fall asleep. [-100 aura

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2028, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. The comments on this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  different way, I feel like I have time to write about it. I've been a part of Infinite since I came to MIT, and I highly recommend it. There's a role for ... was Rebirth. At first, I had no idea what I wanted to do with that. But

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  need to have some sort of memorial service to commemorate the death of ... years that this room has lived i've only been here to bear witness a ... , but i do know enough to have gotten to know you i've done enough in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  constantly doing is that it’s often hard to put aside time for small things ... feels very tempting to put off tasks like these which require creativity ... to say, I’d like to write more now that I’m transitioning from college

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

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  college recently, and i realized that all of them seem less interesting to ... where i’m attracted to uncertainty. blog ideas and unfinished drafts ... ’m working on a half-finished project i tend to assume a positive outcome for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  involves many a prank and snark. During their stays, each resident is to ... to find a souvenir store in the faraway lands of Putz, but I will send ...  one flight of stairs ok maybe that's a lie, i used to live on stickmen (which is

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  computer science). So why am I taking (and planning to take) so many course ... taking the chemistry GIR? To answer that question, let me tell you the ... be to invest all my energy into understanding the “artificial

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  , texting people if they want to get lunch or go grocery shopping once they ... enough. four years is a lot of time to change a person; reading my entries ... confusion of being 16 years old, bemoaning perceived injustices to me

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  there are many reasons for this: i don’t text as much as i used to, i have no classes on tuesdays and thursdays, i’m trying to make progress on 2 research projects so i have no choice but to work a lot, and so on. but i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  Last week I saw someone screencap my blog post and post it on /r/ApplyingToCollege. I'm flattered for something I've written to get 211 upvotes, and I'm sad that I can't keep the karma for my main. I'd have loved to comment

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it ... Kentaro Miura) There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  it. All I want to do is lie in the sun and read a book, but... finals ... too much on, worried about not getting the opportunity to rest enough ... ’s nice to be on campus. Really nice. But the longer I’m here, the easier it

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  i've realized i spend most of my time trying to divorce myself from ... used to feel like home, dusting off once-beloved keepsakes. these days, i ... , sometimes amused by who i used to be, sometimes saddened. whenever i think

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a ... , their GoFundMes are here. This write-up isn’t intended to be activism or ... it more room and confidence to gnash its teeth loudly and openly. In a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  that people say on a day to day basis, whether they are drunk or sober ... that is surviving an MIT semester. The concentration of emails sent to ... front of a group of people, after all. But I decided to go through all the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  20 Things I Learned In 2020 from a course 20 who is in her 20s

  

  are so freaking capable of adapting to drastic life changes. It might ... to use. Cartography is still very much a thing. It's okay to not be okay. Repeat after me: It's okay to not be okay. There will always be

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 1, 2021