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• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  , despite not doing very good in any year, I did learn that framing the goal ... website, but...did not do that. I do have a base for it, though, so once I ... ways in my life that I've used task management, especially for goal

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  .   I tried out technology that let you walk in virtual reality, a camera ... not in a rush to try out the latest gadget. I thought that I was going ... our dining room table, planning out my year. 2017 is the year that I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  into the pace of one while the other is in my head. Where “I Know a Man ... major, a physics major (that's me), a mechanical engineer, a premed (I ... . Every class day (which is Mondays and Wednesdays- that's today), we read a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  opportunities like that in your email. honestly as a 6-7 (cs & bio) i don ... is why it’s so insane that i managed to do that ... exist in the minds of others when I'm not around is...insane. A few

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  easier. I figured MIT was a once in a lifetime opportunity that I should ... . MIT encourages a love of knowledge that I can't help but soak in. But I ... - should I go to art school, or should I do the "safe" thing and get a "real

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  . Only reason it's not a 10/10 is because FF7 is reserved in that spot, tbh ... ][/annotation] Narrative: 6/10. I do think that overall, it was a well-imagined narrative and ... only characters that I actually liked in this game. Do I care about Jesse

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  their application. In light of this, I'm going to tell you a story. Maybe ... their blogs that the decisions were in the mail. I knew I could expect to ... while I explained to her (future civil engineer) that I really needed a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  enjoy seeing the convergence of language (i don’t know if that is a real ... that i am biased because i have just been hearing about the cube a lot ... it is. i stand there with the cube in my hand, my brain going, is it

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  . In fact, people here are free to do almost anything they think is a ... glass I want! And now, living in a dorm where I am in charge of my own ... amount of academic freedom I have. I’ve had a huge amount of choice in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  kindness friday and affording myself a little bit of grace

  

  things I could do that Friday. Maybe I could get a little treat for myself ... breakfast as often as I’d like to, but I know that the first step in a good ... Central that day, however, I noticed a beautiful array of vases in Boomerang

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • March 26, 2026
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  , have decided that today I will operate under the assumption that I am in ... neck muslces later I was boarding a plane to Seattle in a neck brace. I ... Seattle, rented a Jeep that had been designed by someone specializing in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  in that I had a bed there and my clothes were there, but I was so young ... insisted on having them up while i remained in the closet is a mystery only a ... in a room that had begun to feel wholly not-mine. I remember the first

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  roommate is a close friend with amazing taste in decor and books, and I ... at a company in exchange for that company funding your degree. I TA an ... socializing is much less spontaneous. Since I don’t live in a dorm, I can

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  what i did at a particular point in time and when, as opposed to a list ...   i have a general color coding scheme: green are ... mind. blue are mandatory, or important events that i'm committing to (i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  long of it is that I don’t know if I can do what I want to do with my ... eyebrows at me when I told them that I ran as “a meditation on the utility of ... issues just underneath the surface. The irony is that what I thought was

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  research, progress at a standstill-- that is still what I love about it ... about that and I feel such a sense of pride, I do. A lot has happened. My ... little ways back in my history (what history I have), not too far, just a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  characterized by strong winds. Try using that word in a sentence today, it's fun ... 'm excited that I'll be sharing other people's experiences in the future with ... it out. Did you know blustery was a word? I didn't. I got an email

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  What follows is a thought that I've mulled over recently put into ... ado... How do I meet know more people (To new friendships! A special ... really meant was, “How do I know more people?”, because in my experience

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life But make it four

  

  : Roommate is helping me construct a dresser from IKEA that I've been putting ... spends their day. My roommates and I wanted to do the same thing but in ... captions are embedded in the images, so I’ve included a text-only version at

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  rediscovered a diary that I kept in first grade. My favorite entry reads ... Signs that I would someday Do Science can be traced to when I was 6 ... fun! I went on a ride that looks like this*. then when I got home I con

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012