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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

  

  graduated, starting a new job at a nonprofit. At the end of every work day ... of light up poi at the dance part. I now spend more time with my ... ’t live up to my values or at the supposed lack of external progress in my

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  fort I spent a fair amount of the rest of REX at, reopened. I filled out ... dorm you'd prefer living in at the end of REX. Also commonly used as a ... ’ve done at MIT so far (in terms of nonacademic work of course). I’ve learned

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  One of the things that I try to do here is to write a little bit about all the activities/groups that I'm involved in at MIT. However ... Relations Director of LTI (Leadership Training Institute) - which I've also

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  lot of help from the whole world. The Pakistani Students association at ... at this time of worry, when we have been struck by Tsunamis, Katrina ... should be at the forefront of everyone's thoughts. For more on what Saad

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  The MIT Monologues performed last weekend. MITMo is an offshoot of the Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, but all of our monologues are ... ’d just hung. Most of us were in the black-and-red we’d wear onstage, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  around. Surprisingly, I wasn't struggling. Like, at all. The first of the ... extent, in the first semester. I balked at the idea of having one's grade ... continuing. Maybe if I paced myself, I'd be taking in all of the material at a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  scientists in the US, twelve of whom are at MIT, including Morgan), that's the ... that lots of stuff got blown up. Well, at least we both wanted to see it ... at the Pizzeria Uno next to Fenway Park. (One of the best things about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  do the first four miles at the [annotation note="for some definition of ... small falls on the [annotation note="more of a creek at this point ... . Most of my willpower is focused on moving myself forwards, one step at a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  Skloot I want to read at least 12 books by the end of the summer ... about it right now, I’d at least say that it’s a kind of spread ... . It’s very relevant, to me at least, because she touches on a lot of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  . At the end of this summer, I had two weeks with absolutely nothing I ... think one of the most important things at MIT is not learning to be ... only actually spend time at 15-20 of them (I kid -- it's definitely a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  one side of my body. Given that this is New England (42o north latitude ... First things first: there was another home football game today -- at which I cheered and Sam trumpeted -- and, due to a malicious ball of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  year—or at least national, but hopefully global, with the idea of ... Friday evening, after getting one of the more interesting emails of ... (with a view of the Great Dome), a lecture hall, an MIT professor's office

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  . Hardi had never cussed at me, much less refused to answer one of my ... after my freshman year at MIT. One of my fellow counselors, Greg, had thru ... . At the end of the summer, he pulled me aside and said, “Gabe, I know it

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  Parisian and Earth Dance, while I've chosen a somewhat bolder palette of New ... and perils of vegetarianism, but I got a little involved this evening with Ruth painting our new fall rooms. As Lynn Kamimoto '05 would "Ooh

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  much as a person that it kind of shocks me to look back at how different ... things done the *right* way. 4 - a lot of things *happen* at MIT. they ... i posted the following message in the MIT class of 2021 admits

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  spoilers for the book siddhartha   i. at the beginning of my ... is introduced at the beginning of a text (oftentimes in the form of a ... a millennium of new developments is different from choosing classicism

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  I wasn't actually planning on writing a start of semester post this ... I've consistently done this type of post for [annotation note ... and debate about various things happening in the media at the immediate

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  Last year, an exciting new project started at MIT—Tea with Teachers ... on open team positions at the bottom of the page. Everything written ... teaching new members of the video team how to do this process (shoutout to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  i want to be good at a lot of things out of personal interest and ... the notion of squad wealth has been increasing in popularity recently ... : we can replace traditional capitalistic and commodified forms of value

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  . :]" Yeah, sooooo, I'd love to, but see, most of the words that my new Spanish ... !" At that point, the continued pursuit of this word is sort of pointless ... , like the crowning of a new king and such. By the way, my commentary on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008