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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

  

  nurses ask sympathetically if I was in a car accident and warn that I may ... words from one of my mentors, Kim, is a compass I hold closely - “Do what ... human being and not a human doing.   And when I do that, I know

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  a day had been a particularly long one and reassured me that I’m doing ... that up. I received many a DM along the lines of, “woah since when were you in Europe?!” I rode the high of my “European” adventure for a few

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  express that something is rare or unlikely to happen. But I work at MIT, you see - which means that on a daily basis I'm not surrounded by most people, I'm surrounded by MIT people. This is a good thing for many, many

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  I am double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Biology, with a ... started off at MIT, I thought that the only way to learn was to take a bunch ... instead. (That made a lot of sense.) The reality of it all was I got tired

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  stations set up in Maseeh, I decided on the safest option there is: a freshly ... consensus is that this is in fact the best dining hall on campus. What I ... down my to-do list. But here it finally is! Hey everybody! I'm Lady

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  with a stranger in any physical location at this point in time, i decided ... meet a lot of people in classes/at random events that you can lose touch ... commitments. and whenever you think "wow, i should meet up with that person," a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  forged in injustice as a sword is forged." On Writing is my bible. I ... storytelling so much that it's become a pillar of my identity — it's why I chose ... list. I hope you'll find a story that resonates with you too. Without

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  season coming up, I should note that a home subscription to the New York Times makes for a great gift. Even in this Age of the Internet, I do enjoy ... , this time a long and insightful article in the Sunday Magazine. Take some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  've been going to a magnet school (I think that's what it is) half of every ... 't just a leaf.) It was something out there trying to tell me that I need to ... , I heard from my Physics C teacher that being recognized in national

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  walkability of a city is, in fact, important to me. And although I do like ... ="54230" /] I feel very strongly about Seattle in a way that I haven't felt about ... history. I don't know, and that bothers me. But what I do know is that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  'm EXHAUSTED. I was supposed to do [annotation note="a program where MIT ... students in my major don't typically go to sophomores. at a certain point, I ... remotely or travel to the region and do them in person. I was fully

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

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  class is infamous for taking a lot of time to do the work (but like I said ... HUGE change that I have in my life right now is that I'm going to be ... guys?). That being said I do still have a semester here... and knowing I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  hour in Boston is awful. I should have just taken the T. I might even ... comfortable ride to Hartford. I start looking through the 18.02 pset that is due ... potential ways to solve the problems. I take a nap, and I’m in Hartford in 2

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  ! Mad props to Stanford students - if I lived in a place that cool I'm not ... -fed at every turn. Even though I lived in Berkeley and Oakland for over a ... Memorial Day, I had a whirlwind four days in the office before leaving again

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  a department head, a dean, and on top of that, I'd often see him in ... that there is such a thing as a stupid question (the answer was right ... serenaded a girl in the class. Now I realize my view may be a little biased

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  fork in the road, and every choice feels weighty in a place that you’ve worked so hard to get to. In an audiobook? None of that is up to you. I ... I listen to a lot of audiobooks. In 2023, I listened to 28.6 days

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  that I CTRL+A'd the new locker space and deleted all of those files ... without Winnie the bloggers would be wandering around in a confused daze ... ? Well, every student at MIT is assigned server space so that they can

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  motivate that step in a blog post leads to insights I would never have had ... years of MIT? It is strange to walk into a building and find out that it ... a moment, I would say that the biggest difference between the culture

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  school in a city that has so many other colleges and universities is ... that stands out is a jeopardy event that I later journaled as a metaphor ... experiences that stand out to me. I present to you a brief highlight of the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  , fyi"]taking 66 units[/annotation]. I had probably hoped that in a future ... reality is that I still don't physically have enough time to do all the ... when I came across a list titled "Things I would do if I had more time

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020