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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  ’ll delight in for the rest of my life, probably in part because many of my ... there are just a whole lot of stories to reminisce about and tell over and ... challenge of growing as a person, but I’ve since learned that it’s a false

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  the last several weeks of the semester, I was so relieved that I didn ... ratings were high, but it ended up being one of my favorite classes that I ... autostitching, or automatically stitching together separate images of the same

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  " align="alignright" width="300"] Concept art of a glassblowing gremlin ... teams of glassblowers who gather for a few hours a day to make batches of ... out the blob of glass with a tool called a “block” and blow a small

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  , for the longest time, I thought the idea of "building credit" was ridiculous. The going advice is that you shouldn't go over 30% of your credit limit, and that you should pay it off when you can. This kind of all goes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  's one of my favorite classes I've ever taken at MIT (even though I had to drop it 3/4ths of the way through the semester). One of the assignments ... tool, or a visualization of some dataset.  We had the choice to make

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  still remember walking away and feeling like my blood had drained out of ... to walk through. In my head was a mix of regret, anger, sadness ... moment of failure and that I continued to exist after it, because the world

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  of things to write about—there’s always something going on in my life ... keep slipping through my fingers like wisps of smoke. Every week, I feel ... keeping track of how many fire alarms each dorm has has since 2021. to our

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  One of the things that MIT teaches you really well (among many others) is the value of time. In high school I thought I was learning this ... , many too many things. By several orders of magnitude,[annotation note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  last couple of years in high school, I was in a near-constant state of ... too much, having too many interests, putting too much of myself into my ... takeaway is that starting in around fall of 11th grade, I was constantly just

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  At the beginning of September, I moved into a new house! It's 10 ... downstairs with two sets of fridges, washing machines—sans [annotation note="the laundry app we used in dorms"]WashLava,[/annotation] the bane of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  Somehow, I've explored more of Boston and Cambridge while living in ... of my time at MIT nearly enough. During the school year, the only ... "]Roxy's.[/annotation] Now, most of these places are closed, so if I'm too lazy to cook, I have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  it was june, which in the relative scale of time we’re all in right ... front of me, because somehow that made it easier to believe that i wasn ... . staring into the charles from the bridge brings to memory, the six of us, in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?

  

  tutoring organization I'm a part of to discuss my lessons for a student. I ... campus in fall, so we're in the middle of hunting for a place to live in ... until the end of summer with the potential to continue in fall. 2

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 25, 2020
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  didn't even know about until a couple of my friends told me to register ... a quarter of the displays. The Las Vegas Convention Center is huge, and every open space was packed with people. Some of the exhibitors even

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  3 / A team effort Roll Tech: Your newest Intercollegiate High Team silver medalists!

  

  took it slow, taking time to rest up, take care of my body and mind, go ... System, clear my inboxes, and check off things urgent on my todo list. Of course, I also spent a good chunk of time in lab working on my final

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 12, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  in search of more friends, new experiences, and potentially a ... !!) place because of him, along with all of the other wonderful people I ... realize, about yourself and others, at only this level of understanding. But

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  have to post this anonymously... MIT is hella gay, and lots of cool gay ... yeah...that’s the most apt way to put it haha), and we do a bunch of cool ... and absolutely love it! I have made some of my closest friends through

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  The first round of application deadlines are upon you, which means ... you back to zen calm state sooner :) ***AN IMPORTANT NOTE***: A lot of ... the Early Action (EA) deadline. We know that there’s been a ton of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  the buildings are numbered, and at first glance, the ordering of the ... and 4. This is one of the small things I love about MIT: its building ... see the magic of this place going away for me. This is the place I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  I think (and hopefully you do too) that the title of this blog post ... ’d be a perfect fit for MIT and lots of other build-y culture nerd schools ... himself out of spare parts as a fun project:     You have to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016