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• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  comfortable around my peers. I didn't really know if I was going to find a group ... realizing how much of a shitshow the movie was, we switched to Pitch Perfect ... online portion, haphazardly completing it to get a glorious score of 27

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  /meters, approximately (or, exactly sizes, if known)? Is it possible to find in Internet ... ...is? :-X Nah, you'll find out soon enough. :) The one-line version is that a ... install a window AC in any dorm -- and you don't have to pay for electricity

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring break Q&A! ask me questions :-D

  

  everything was virtual. But even then, people still found a way to make it fun ... CPW events going on that you won't have a shortage of things to do ... go to a college, which was my plan after high school, I'm not sure what

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 23, 2026
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  up at the rest stop to find myself in the mist of a blizzard to welcome ... , January 21, 2011 was definitely a GREAT day to start a weekend adventure. I ... :16 pm – A train express into Brooklyn 11:04 pm – waited for host to come

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  tomorrow, it ends. Tomorrow, I get on a plane and fly to Newark, New Jersey ... , I take the train to Lausanne, and find the boarding house that I'll be ... Blue Brain Project, a joint venture between EPFL and IBM to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  , my PI of three years made a suggestion. He wanted to nominate me for a ... to condense three years worth of research into a 10-12 minute talk ... recommendation that you don't want to do a little presentation? I said sure. And

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... cold, but still!) Then I took a train to London at 6am and another train ... probably the 5am walk to the station; it sounds a little torturous/scary but

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  poets, hopeless romantics and people trying to share a shy compliment ... all the evils were released, there was hope. i think you'll find a lot ... i absolutely love the blogs, but there are a number of other places

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  known before. I move to attack a Simmons resident. As he swings his pool ... try to stand, but the second I bend my left leg a horrible pain shoots ... new MIT frosh go to a bunch of events and check out all the different

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  inducted into the Best of the Blogs, a great honor and my second post to do ... to MIT and felt a quick jolt of sadness from leaving home after the ... my plans: During IAP, there is a class taught called "Intro to Python

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Small Things I Like About Autumn A short reflection on a colorful season

  

  , and orange of the leaves, for me, always adds a new type of warmth to ... foliage that is almost impossible not to take a picture of when you walk by ... ways. I always find a sense of coziness whenever I'm enjoying something

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 31, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  overwhelmedness – but I also find a lot of solace in kind, honest words. So that ... mentors, because I think I'm still a bit too young and foolish to be ... you have. If you get accepted to MIT, while it will probably give you a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  has been one and only one answer to every question. The reason to do a ... matter? I don't know, but I didn't bother to try and find out, and at MIT ... throw a wild party, where she will be able to embarrass him in front of

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  For a while now, I’ve had this realization that I tend to overthink a lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There ... , you want to make a choice that leads to the least regret. So, how else

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  students go to learn about companies, some go to find internships for the ... company names). Now, I’m a junior, so the Career Fair is starting to get a ... time at MIT or if I want to jump into a career straight out of college

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  supervisor actually just said to me, "We have a small problem this afternoon ... have to go home early too." I don't really see how that is a problem ... , "Being smart isn't knowing all the answers. It's knowing where to find them

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  as to what the other ones were, you can easily find them! When ... acceptance level material. I wanted to give a short rundown of what my essay writing process was like for me since I get a lot of questions as to how to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  obesity. To find the receptor, Mike and his colleagues are using a technique ... "there's so much going on that you're bound to find something that will get ... equipment. Mike helped to build a database called the "massome" where you can

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  out about the MIT sororities before going to CPW, so this was a perfect ... food at the CPW festival, which was just a taste for what was to come later on. You could find free dinners at a lot of the frats, snack

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  nothing really matters or does everything? a tale of epiphanies and a crisis

  

  ."]digital communication[/annotation] in higher education from my time as a grad assistant to ... started paying a lot more attention to how they were using different ... community was making and/or saying, figuring out a way to form IRL

  • by kellen manning
  • May 6, 2021