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• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  sit in the lounge and talk to people, ask one of your classmates if they ... repeated interaction. But the types of interaction you have are important. I study together with a lot of people a lot of the time, but the people I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  of science and engineering courses it offers, and the fact that most of ... sort of assumed it, and so did I. By the end of my freshman year, I ... sort of interdisciplinary field (neuroscience, for the record, is pretty

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  draw and the rest of the people must guess what it is; fastest to get it ... !!] League of Legends - okay this is much more intense than the rest but I ... Codecademy Pro for the rest of the school year DuoLingo - now is a great time

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  , filling every square inch of this (albeit slightly smaller than the previous ... over the course of winter break. I am left thinking: I hate change. A ... closing of the door, the camera cuts away to a peaceful Next House Dining

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  for the highest work of advancing civilization. You have to find a way ... sounds out of gravity waves... and probably, like, solve the mysteries of ... magnetism are actually kind of the same thing, I started to get a little

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  found my little niches in the realms of the vlogging world, enjoying the likes of Dan and Phil and other creators within the British Youtube sphere, alongside enjoying Minecraft YouTube. This was the first coming of Minecraft

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  of the four technical classes I had picked out or put one of them on ... the class I liked the least but mostly because I wanted to take all of ... note='Fundamentals of Programming']6.009(6.1010),[/annotation] the only

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  Yesterday was the first day of my senior spring, which is also the last first day of my undergraduate studies at MIT. It is the kind of milestone that keeps appearing, with an increasing sense of urgency. The last

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  yourself up in your room trying to get a 100% in every one of the 16 AP ... the application season a little, of which I was actually nearly completely unaware. So I kind of missed the deadline to wish you guys good luck

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  butterfly that chugs along the top of a giant golden cardboard stag head ... the world of “making” by signing up for MakeMIT, even though they had no ... for different categories at the end of the night. Hacking officially

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  Dear Members of the Class of 2022, It's been an absolute pleasure to ... around 4am, I sat down to finally write down all the thoughts and pieces of ... by the Class of 2021's struggles to adjust to the Institute. This post

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  working for 13 hours straight, from 11 pm to noon the next day. Part of the ... -you-can-eat, but instead of being able to leave after you're comfortably full, the ... to say that this is the bane of my existence this semester. I know this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  ring around the barrel. Of course, it was not going to stay forever, and I'd heard rumors of Caltech coming to claim it. The Monday after CPW - I enjoyed seeing so very many of you, by the way :) - I was asleep

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  and lacks the permanent feeling of a full-time job offer. Right now, I ... time, checking out of the room, walking the stage to shake hands with ... dorm showers—their water pressure, the speed of them heating up. It hit

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  Graduate School of Education released a report entitled “Turning the Tide ... 100 of my admissions colleagues at colleges around the country. I think ... the joy of learning. We don’t want a laundry list of a million

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  climate-change-aggravated heat of summer and the depressingly long winter ... fall. It's so beautiful though. I love this time of the year when trees take on the color of sunlight and fire, blue skies blow friendly breezes

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  understand the value of learning about all the biochemical mechanisms that keep ... Worldbuilding i.e. Junot Diaz reveals the lifeblood of stories and gives us the ... bloggers) have said this is one of the best classes they've taken at MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  complete in 12 hours. here's a list of all the fun things i'm doing / have ... , and maybe even start running studies by the beginning of next semester ... every weekend starting on the 25th, and practice every day of the week

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  , let's just say that the day was spent in a weird state of being ... replied to any of her texts in the past 12 hours or so. In terms of communication, I've practically fallen off of the face of the planet. "You know

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  again. I spent the two whole weeks of break just complaining about ... promises in the beginning of the year that I have not kept. I said I would ... here and there, like the stray rodent of Loop kitchen that vacuums trash

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020