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• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  professor. As a result, I wasn’t able to present the material in a way that ... thought that by going to ask for help, I would in a way be "cheating": it ... coming to an understanding of a text through the writing process itself. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  , you push in firmly to force the clay up and down until it reaches a ... handle, to a lopsided cylinder I made back in the first class. [caption id ... and reached a texture referred to as “leather hard”; in this process

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  structure. Or, to be more descriptive, geography and physical structure have a ... "normal" (though really, there's a limit to how normal anyone at MIT is ... buildings in this area of campus, but in addition to the many dorms it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  crisis, realizing I want to find some way to combine my interest in media ... break. I made plans to paint, work out, write, study, and a whole other ... 'd be visiting Boston later in January and would love to meet up with me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  seem to be a lot of graduate students in the room, or maybe just ... great. I am a little saddened to know that there are a lot of classes in ... : I find myself in 38-530, a lab space for electronics that I last

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  day comes to close, a fire in my hands, a warmth in my soul ... mentions or finds it. so, i’m writing a very high effort blog about fire ... went from tiptoeing around a lighter to loving fire with a passion just

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  Tuberculosis." Now I just need to find a context. Did I mention salad? pika ... . Life after it happens is at least semi-solid enough to serve on a plate ... managed to run four miles, throw together a tofu-tomato-mushroom salad, get

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  other or coexist in the manner the article describes. to be honest, the ... ’m inclined to believe it has a substantive message anyway, the idea that a ... for help or participate in groups; when i happen to be in the midst of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  happy, but a key component of it includes exercises for you to put certain ... with a stranger in any physical location at this point in time, i decided ... to back calls would be exhausting and in spite of this was pretty

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  Entry: A Night in the Lounge The first opportunity to chill and eat with ... nine entries, A-J (minus I because it's ~imaginary~), in a highrise stack ... : Roll with the A Dogs The people of A invited prefrosh to meet residents

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  lost, in a world where others don't seem to be. feeling reluctant to open ... person in a room. explaining to a nine-year-old what an fmri is. seeing ... one of the prompts i answered, when i applied to be a blogger (and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  resubmission to our journal. Getting to “Reviewer 2” Albert Einstein (in a nice ... to be Paper 2; in a few weeks when I get feedback, I’ll need to revise ... more. In a sense, it’s like “inverse game theory”: instead of trying to

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  satisfaction in mounting things to a wall" /] I finished the structural ... decided to postpone. I absolutely was not in the state to blog. There are a ... What a wonderful word: anew. Google defines it as “in a new or

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  , which means excited little prefrosh like yours truly got to find out ... you meet with them every once in awhile to make sure things are going OK ... students in a kind of mini-class on some random, fun topic. (You get a few

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  turned out to be a fabulous idea because the auditorium filled up. In the ... session, but I'm sure that Neil would be happy to stick around for a few ... -- to what extent outreach is valued in the scientific community." Neil

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  out to his family. Here's his story.   A little over one year ago, I came out to my mom and my dad. Since then, things have settled into a new ... takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  've resulted in a path where I held on to that anger and that hurt and hurt other ... comes to relationships. I haven't made a lot of good decisions in the past ... . Call all of your friends at least once a month to check in with them

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  organize sketch nights in Random Hall, where we hunt down a willing victim to ... Note: This is not a guide to keeping a notebook because everyone has ... ’re looking to start keeping a little notebook or everything and have no idea

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  looked at my page, but I have no one around to help me make a new banner ... gorgeous I really am in real life. As you probably know, it's kind of hard to ... collectively as my family) have all been very busy lately. So I decided to pull a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  I started writing a blog about freshman fall four months ago, in ... ate a breakfast of cheese & crackers. I walked to my first class of ... entrance to Baker. I couldn’t stop smiling as I waited in line for food. I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024