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• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  whole process. i have a lot of hope for the fall. i feel like i’m in a ... like a canned statement, but it couldn’t ring truer for me. i wallowed ... because it dulled the pain, but choosing to take a leap of faith and open my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  misery for a few minutes. I can't help but think back to the first and only ... the way, I probably have a dozen blog entries that I've planned and ... basically a Twitter feed. I hope you appreciate the enormity of this sacrifice

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  to be typing at full speed for up to 10 hours a day, the equivalent of ... loop for several hours a day, resulting in my passing of the 18,000 XP ... education app for 8 hours a day for a week. I can also say that holding the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  teachers soon called my parents in for a conference, horrified that the new ... for the evening. In fourth grade she signed me up for a free class at El ... salaries and some help from the government, was just enough to buy half a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Check Is In The Mail As you know from Matt/Ben's blogs, the decisions are in the mail, or as they…

  

  , you may be one of the 12%. For those not in the 12% - do not despair ... selected during Regular Action. Nevertheless, The Nance Effect is a great ... As you know from Matt/Ben's blogs, the decisions are in the mail, or

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  !!!!!!!!!!!!) This is just a quick update on how life is for me right now (that's what ... design stuff. Then I run back to the dorm, finish my psets and study for my ... , I will be done with all psets (this is just a theory). I'll spend the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  us to Boston. I talked to the boy for a moment, running through the ... before (fast, especially for the South, speckled with laughter). He sat a ... student watched me awkwardly shove a swab up my nose for the first time. I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  but inevitably for the better, and that even though you're leaving a ... waving parents and sister and dog, you head for the burritos, and you ... laughing maniacally. Another lady comes up to the counter with a bag. "42

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  musical chairs against a group of about 40 people (the majority of whom have ... about an hour south of Tokyo for a company called Toray Industries. Haven ... email calling for cover letters to apply for the job. This is how MISTI

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a ... subway or walking alone on the street. Seemingly every week, a video clip ... Steven T. ‘20, whose mother works at a salon. In the past, we’ve spoken at

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Collection of Curious Creatures at the MIT Zoo terrasaurs, quetzals, and portal cows, oh my!

  

  appear that some hackers decided to turn the Infinite into a zoo, featuring the imagined animalistic avatars of some MIT courses, programs, and ... hackers reserved an exhibit -- complete with photo booth -- for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  projects, so we get reimbursed for the supplies we buy. It's a great way ... think "out of the box"? If ever you get a chance, you should ... a neon Guernica. The cornucopia of artistic overflow splatters onto

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  school” anymore — I want to try for a master's. I’d been playing with the ... saying. I personally use forums as a litmus for how the school is perceived ... for a program in another British city, weighing the chances of getting

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We’re #1! What's the emoticon for oversize foam hand?

  

  : OpenCourseWare: MIT courses for free on the web. What's not to love about ... MIT was named the most visited college/university web site by 4 International Colleges & Universities, a higher education directory. I have a

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life in the Fast Lane why do i walk so fast?

  

  [/annotation] is a battleground of different speeds. The tourists walk at a ... with quiet purpose–no backpack, just a laptop in hand and the confidence of having a paycheck. The undergrads? We walk like the loch ness

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 29, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  literature classes and insists that spring is a time for regeneration and ... a thesaurus. Anyway, the same part of my brain happens to be writing this blog entry, so here's a not-so-subtle hint of the life-changing life

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  One of my NRAO friends is a big fan of the band "Drive-By Truckers ... a few other friends, then walked downtown. On the way, we passed a ... character.") The lights were on, music was playing, and a ticket table was set

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  [annotation note='The past two years I had been a counselor for the Course 6 ... first week back. #nofilter.[/caption] Returning back to the 'Tute “After a ... electricity for my new apartment, getting my skates sharpened, getting a haircut

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  I was confused when I was put into a room with three strangers at the beginning of this year. Two of the girls I had heard about in a very ... located in Baker House. Don't sweat it!) The year got off to a rocky start

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  bad consequences for the entire Internet as we have come to know and ... Bill 968, the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) are corresponding versions of a bill ... latest battle in a war which began when the Internet began an age of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012