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• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  malusog, "healthy", particularly in contrast to being buto't balat, "skin ... to grow fat is a privilege afforded to people who had food in the first ... me to walk a few steps in a straight line, and my dad said I shouldn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  stomach is not rumbling, but there’s enough flatness in it to proclaim the ... moment he gets to his destination. He makes a turn to the left, his back ... resolution to his stomach’s plight: a carton of Milk. In that moment, he has

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  are buffet-style, allowing you to get as much food as you want from ... stopping you from getting food from several of them at once. When I'm not in ... . In doing so, I'm often surprised by how much the salad bar has to offer

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  available to everyone in most other countries since they were a preteen. I ... ’ve acquired on the way to becoming a full-fledged adult (in no particular order ... ’t try to work in a fog. I know how to say “May I pet your dog?” in 5

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  lounge, one of the upperclassmen in my dorm stopped by to comfort me. “Don ... -defined problems fed to you by a benevolent manager, then you’re in luck because the ... differences. Each of the teams also wanted to pull the project in a certain

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  in Montana, how many little communities. Next to Montana are Washington ... researcher, you can get obsessed with and trapped in your little specialty ... battle to fight both in advocating for the importance of undergraduate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  , and so I randomly rank classes that happen to fit in with the rest of my ... first day of class, ready to get some tips on how to improve my strokes ... ’t consider myself to be a terrible ice skater, but I was pretty bad in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  undecided in which colleges I wanted to apply to. All I wanted to do was get ... I realize that some of my readers may not have had the opportunity to visit MIT yet. They may never walk the tunnels before they decide to apply

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  tried to recreate this in my room, it would probably have too much avocado ... spent with walking around the campus and the city to get an idea of who ... Mission Log 3042007 It's 6 o clock in the morning, and I ask myself

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  least five times in the past few months, but never gotten around to ... semester in order to present you an honest picture of life at MIT. There is ... intending to be a double major in [annotation note="writing!"]Course 21W

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  to get a question in edgewise. TAs also look to avoid these OH and they ... absolutely fall in love with the class (shoutout to Tim P.(but to be fair ... students in course 18! Life becomes a lot easier when you learn to ask for

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  as possible. On weekdays, those of us willing to get up for breakfast ... Walmart, which, in our tiny New Mexico town, was a destination akin to ... up in the glittering sky with bugs chirping in my ear, to imagine that

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  ordinarily would have wanted to blog about. Knowing me, I’ll never get around ... night in Las Vegas, then… Pass through Valley of Fire on our way to ... … Pass through Las Vegas (again) on our way to… One day in Joshua Tree

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  School in the fall. Summers 9-11: Sports camp, run by my school (oh, to be ... to do justice to this in a few sentences, but I'll try. This is an ... (in order): Archaeology (which I signed up for in order to study

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge ... trips abroad in summer, so adjusting to being away from home ended as soon ... unproductive feelings in a healthier way and to not blindly reject others when I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  Photo Contest, in which I objectively judged photos sent to me by CPW ... 've decided to abandon my usual rhetorical grace in favor of simply insulting ... parse it in the imperative mood. As in, “Welcome MIT families to our

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  , and started her ascent to stardom by starring in the Abercrombie & ... to Lost Evie above).We'll have winners in each category. The rules ... to scan it in yourself, though. Submit your entry either by leaving a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 06 The inside scoop on all 54 units I am taking this semester

  

  long run to government finances in the intermediate run and economic ... airline miles, since I get to travel to another country during IAP for this ... a mutual fund manager decide what to invest in? What factors determine

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  often time people get to know me, and then learn about my Islam due to my ... admissions in general. I had actually committed to Cornell, I had done all of ... actually, there’s just so much to do. In a literal sense, there are so many

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  standing next to you. You dove right in; there was no preamble. Everyone knew ... house to buy in my new town, go on a big adventurous trip to Asia, and then (finally) get a dog. Everything was going according to plan. I was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020