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• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  .  From the letters I would write for my grandparents overseas in elementary ... 's something that I've simply convinced myself to be true, but MIT in fact does ... how I think. How I make sense of the things that are happening in my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  is the picture i have in mind: i was so preoccupied during undergrad ... set in stone as i imagined: i’ve already switched jobs and roles, signed ... brutal. i was reeling from moving to a new city and living in a house with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  in volcanoes, and I wondered, again, how grad school would suit me ... , and/or see people. I love the cafe in the morning. Classical music ... yet unwritten, the ending not set in stone. I left with two characters

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  's programs in those areas and would MIT not be the right place for me if I ... to answer in time, but i'm STILL struggling to decide between Yale and MIT. I love science but I'm also very interested in International

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  the five stages of grief: i. denial in which I wake up, horrified ... a notoriously difficult exam in a fraction of the time ii. anger I ... excelling at math. I'm mad at MIT: I'm taking 102 units in an attempt to start

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  yourself. TT: I would feel the same way if I was in your situation. TT: Which ... . from everything goes on: But if I was gone tomorrow, would the waves ... 's laughing in the background So this is how it ends I promise to never go

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  you that you feel get you closer to your goal in life? So I guess what ... expressed some interest in it when I was about ten, and after that my family ... school, I would have been less likely to figure this out - I would have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  I would have a problem if Snively managed to get more posts up than me ... that I don't have to think about in the circuits that I design. 6.034 - Artificial Intelligence: Mostly what it sounds like. I'm more interested in

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  , I would provide shelter or food for them, resulting in a symbiotic ... figure out how I would constrain the balloon. I tried thin strips of duct ... so she keeps live worms in her room. I really wanted to see them burrow

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  because I’m wearing all black in the Florida sun). Right now, all I have for ... , chaotic joy.  But I think there might be something to pick apart in those ... graph, I guess I can explain some things about my semester in a way that

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  math major at a tech school in the ‘80’s. When was the hardest that I worked? I told myself, in freshman spring, that I would never take 4 ... telling myself, ‘no way in hell this will work.’  I know all my little

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  and I told him that for once in my time at MIT, I want to be good at something, to have my niche. I've been struggling a lot in finding my place ... in the mirror and I see my accomplishments. I think of how far I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And Then There Was One Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor.

  

  Folks, it is a sad, sad day in the MIT Admissions Office. Juan ... the only remaining wookie. I must go now and weep gently. May my beard catch the tears that would otherwise run with the ink of your applications

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  interested in seeing what it would say about me. Would it say I'm an ENFP still ... there is out there in the world. I read into my zodiac and stuff, not ... water snake, iirc.) I would definitely say I'm a superstitious person -- I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  .) I spent the summer doing a software internship in New York. I lived ... , in classic MIT student tradition, I crammed a year’s worth of self ... , I feel dead and lifeless."]I hate living alone,[/annotation]so in this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  instance: if I get 2000 in SAT and 110+ [out of 120] in iBT TOEFL, would the ... . ------------------------------------- NoOneInParticular wrote: "Would it be inappropriate / discouraged ... . ------------------------------------- Glairflair17 wrote: "Would a 580 score on the SAT I math section be

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  'm slightly afraid of the person i would become if i lived in LA. portland is ... and a curse. i was spending most weeknights by myself in a tired haze ... -somethings than something-teens. i regretted not living in seattle instead of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  now. in some world, i would graduate from MIT, and go to graduate school ... will be okay. or in a different world, i would graduate from MIT and get ... would be feeling overwhelmingly sad and decide i am being ~cringe~ and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  , in the world of math, while I was deriving the equations for the heat ... Name the song I stole the lyrics from and win a cookie. So this week was pretty intense: 6.021J - Quantitative Physiology I - Cells and

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  putting some Chef Boyardee in a pot for lunch. That's not to say that I ... Star Market! And it feeds 5 people! Why would you ever eat in a dining ... I may not have alluded to this before, but my roommate, April, is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005