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• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  moleskine notebook since the beginning of junior year of high school, and now ... , blinking away the wisps of my dreams as i touch down on earth. “what did you do this summer?” i spent these three months on a languid journey of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  2016 as part of the Class of 2020, which means most of my friends are ... most of the remaining time I have with these people, because they're so ... I am today. . . . while cultivating new friendships! Many of my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  semester (when you have a better idea of what classes are offered when ... our own little world and were mostly ignored by the rest of the school ... of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  busy street, cuts through much of Northwestern's campus. Both of these ... ) "let's eat tons of food and talk about our problems!" dinner. While Peach ... Spectrum duty desk in the lobby of McCulloch Hall at Northwestern University

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  end of the night, an important person from a big business that turns ... this talk because these kinds of businesses are usually very tight ... from four other businesses are talking to us about the uses of computers

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  administrative business on our hall gets taken care of. I actually ran for the ... semester is comprised of classes I actually really want to take. Here are ... coded key of how I classify the classes.Notice the relatively small

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  totally made my day. Engineers rock. Of course, Wallace is failing MechE and then cheated, like an idiot! So of course he got caught, and I’m supremely disappointed in his lack of judgment. Still. Mechanical engineering

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  of the images themselves, offering concise, descriptive language to ... ways with her mid-20s long ago, kept asking variations of "How is everything, 'Sweetheart'?" in the manner of an elderly grandmother. I started

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  my head all Monday night. As part of my summer of fun, a few friends of mine and I decided to take advantage of free dance lessons offered at MIT ... , the Ballroom Dance Club offered lessons in Mambo. My friend Jackie and I

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  . Thank you for saying that. At the end of my junior year of high school one ... ... I read a ton of Shakespeare in high school and college and hated most ... - on both sides of the equation. I apologize to those of you who think

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  job-wise, this has been an absolute rollercoaster of a year so far. I ... . it obviously didn't happen because of COVID, but since I'd been looking forward to doing these programs since high school, i set my hopes on doing

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  academia should look like and of who belongs in it. Once, in high school, I ... "][/video] This is also probably the most terrifying 3 minutes of my life to ... I spent most of September and October doing safety trainings and

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  of summer vacation, we're still riding on a high, fueled with ... to see our friends, go back-to-school shopping, move into our new rooms ... year, a blank slate, a fresh start. A momentary burst of confidence and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  seemed to leave. Suddenly I was balancing a busy summer of working, taking ... I started MIT as a bubble of idealism. MIT was going to be AWESOME ... began the painful process of defroshing. I learned that, no, I was not

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  For most of my life before coming to MIT, I had been really into drawing [annotation note="there was a lot of… naruto though"]all sorts of things.[/annotation] I had sketchbooks full of Digimon I’d made up when I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  This year's commencement speaker, Salman Khan, founder of the Khan ... something that touched me profoundly: One of my roommates when I was two years out of college, who had formerly been a bit of a track star at MIT, and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  see, very concretely, the huge range of opportunities that are on offer ... Students' Weekend. Admitted high school seniors flood MIT for 3.14 days and all of campus puts on a bazillion fun events for them!) I wanted to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  life has been weird. life has been extremely busy. it feels like ... of tissue, then move that to the recipient's hole[/caption] needless ... intensity of that week. i'm taking a step back and realizing that it was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  and astronautics a thousand "internet years" ago, when those of us who ... place called a library to get information. It was, of course, uphill both ... grad school someplace with palm trees, I spent 16 years at the Jet

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  other schools, but here are some of the approaches I’ve developed from my ... ’ve started as early as middle school, when I joined Science Bowl and was one of ... year here, I joined a business club because I was interested in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023