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• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  choice in going back to China. But I felt a pang of both regret and longing ... anything particularly related to my major--in fact, my proposal for a mini ... cultures. It took, and continues to take, a lot of time and energy--I may

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Etiquette Workshop: The Keys to Painless Networking Jodi Smith taught the UPOPers the keys to painless networking!

  

  appropriate if you're introducing yourself to a veterinarian or fellow dog lover. 5. Do your homework! If you're going to an event sponsored by a ... you are going to be the "driver" or the "passenger." 9. Make a graceful

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  Last weekend, I wrote “A Guide to Farmer's Markets". Here’s what I ... going to be a very different post) I...couldn't do it. I really just ... --that is why I decided to write about vegetables instead. That is why I am a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  more and more YouTube videos to my channel, a lot of them just being ... lined up, and it's good. I have a boyfriend I'm ready to move in with, to ... an itch, a want to try content creation for real, this time. To pursue

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…

  

  his homecoming tour. Keep in mind, this is a person I’ve been wanting to ... immigration conversations, the Q&A session gave us the opportunity to ... make it dope. It's being able to have a heart-to-heart with anyone and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  up to near 50/50 like startup-school Olin College has, but I'm afraid ... ." Melissa's concerns are reasonable. According to statistics from the Society ... in the United States are women, and that number drops to 17.9% by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  in December for me to wear shorts three days in a row, and when the ... . When the sun is out, I'm out. When I need to sleep, I do. A third policy ... gulped down the wetness in the air like I imagine a fish would if it, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into ... my time to strike. But naturally, as both a good person and someone ... to hunt down stumble upon Zendaya when I can barely speak, look like a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  matter in the entire month…until Friday," to which I say, "weak sauce"']a ... are almost always tied to the[annotation note="MIT has a reputation for ... also trying to find my place on campus, in many ways—but the lack of snow

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  during lunch when a friend of mine ran over and said "You have to watch ... . . ." Since getting to MIT I've been a part of several riots and a flash mob ... fashionable leather jacket and blue jeans (an outfit you'll find me in on a near

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  bringing together thoughts about my own life to come up with a coherent ... way for me to take the world that I know, and modify it in a way that ... made MIT almost a natural place for me to want to go, but the longer that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  had to walk several minutes to find a green place for him to disembark ... the mechanical routine of a [annotation note="closer to a 9:45ish-to-5 ... -a-glitch-in-the-simulation-but-unnerving-enough-that-I-had-to-take-a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  the communities I’m now a part of are beloved to me, but I definitely ... load in about a year, and communicate when I need to take time off from ... me, sounding like a college confidential parent) 5. Not going to class

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Stud/Fac Dinners Genius idea to get free dinner with MIT geniuses

  

  advice on topics like How to Set Up a Friend as a Favor How to Set Up Two of Your Friends How to Avoid Being Set Up How to Pin a Boutonniere What to do if you get an ugly corsage How to Treat a Pimple How to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  to Software Engineering in Java 6.178 is a six-unit class offered only ... Git, a version control system that helps to coordinate/collaborate your ... I had gotten used to it and can now say that I have a basic idea of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  friends probably could've told you that. I've moved to San Francisco, a ... and live in a country that I haven't lived in before, I want to explore ... followed, or catcalled. At one point, a man tried to hit me as he called me a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  basics of color opponency To understand this, you will need a color wheel ... magnitude corresponds to a change in brightness by a factor of ten. The reason ... eyes do. A camera is more sensitive to brights than to darks, so if it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  choking hazard to young children. Blahaj is a meter long, nearly body pillow ... to perform what’s called a holy trinity, a move usually done with a ... you a Blahaj enjoyer? Do you have a baby who wants to meet new shork

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial aid news & more MIT announces costs & aid for the 2007-2008 school year.

  

  noted. Earlier today, I had a chance to (briefly) visit the kind folks in ... A press release yesterday from MIT announced costs & financial aid ... budget to $68 million, President Susan Hockfield announced. "The world

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  what she said, because she read me to filth. Spotify and I have a ... sound that really makes my brain sparkle — a good band to study to ... introduced her to a few songs and we’ve had a few nights where we just listen

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022