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• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  . . . Listing all this out, I’m struck not so much by sadness or emptiness but by ... I’m not sure that’s the best description, actually. It seems to ... potential wedding dresses. She recently got engaged to her boyfriend on their

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  this homework. it's something strange to come to terms with, how this ... i've ever had the pleasure of knowing. he taught me how to love ... how long i stare at that screen at the empty textbox, no matter how long

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  't remember a single bit of it. It took my brain a hot second to remember how to take a derivative, and hopefully I will not have to take an integral, because I don't remember how to take any of the fancier ones. Also, I hate C

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  (yes a different person, how hard it is not to use names) and I would ... rice. Mildly unsettling, but to be honest, I am not surprised given how ... people go to dining halls, including Maseeh. I'm not sure how it works, but

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  . Therefore, I, the Sichuan native, belong to a species quite closely resembling ... 's strange to me to be considered an East-Coaster-- a city-dweller, an on ... bind, I've been known to identify myself "Boston", sometimes, "New Haven

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to ... search for an empty classroom across campus to study in instead. [caption ... least, not reassuring in my ability to pass the final! I ended up having

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  office, which is always good.) Not to mention a few overnight train trips ... empty rooms. I haven't gotten to know too many of them yet, but I think we ... of the freshman perspective, and compare it to how I felt a year ago

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  how to play! I'm also growing my annual IAP beard. I hate facial ... of IAP. I guess. I can't think of how to end this entry... well, I can ... ever stays at the MIT chapter when he's in Boston? Probably not... he

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  . Not even looking at my empty dorm room with the awful splatter paint job ... return to. I was shocked how quickly MIT, and especially East Campus ... all have something to learn, and something to share. That’s not to say

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

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  I do not own any fall clothes. It seems that this is going to be a ... long sleeve layers, but according to Claire and to wikihow, this is not ... minutes total, no matter where I’m going: I get to leave later and not be

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  rollerbladed to the train station. (Incidentally, rollerblades and trains are not ... tent. “I was going to call the ranger. You left it on an empty site.” He ... emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  plans except to have as much fun as possible. Having an empty calendar ... to go anywhere else. But, it was very much not true that it "wasn ... was a semi-sullen teenager, who was maybe not exactly thrilled to be on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  , and tried not to think about the fact that we'd been in the car for ... dangling off towards the garbage can. There's a box sitting on my otherwise-empty bookshelf, a shirt and a purse strewn across my desk, an empty closet, a pile

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  . Shooting a bottle-rocket 200 feet in the air and somehow managing to not ... must find Tim. 8. Learn how to walk better on ice. Simple enough... I ... back at how much my life has changed in just twelve months. It has, by

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  lunch. It's not the best lunch, but it's what works. Then I go to class ... 'd rather not. I like talking to the real you, rather than this version in my ... .404 pset, thinking about how Cambridge feels so foreign to me even if I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  needed to know but didn't know how to ask. Paul: Top Ten Common ... Problems... Admissions Is Not One" 52 things not to do. Chris: Notes on the ... that you'll want to go to." Sam: It's bigger than you, and you are not

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  ’t leave empty handed either though. My roommate and I, due to a little ... -joke: unexpected and irrational enough to elicit the obligatory chuckle of awkwardness, but still, to everyone’s chagrin, logically sound in a roundabout

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  for me, seeing all you guys excited to be here and the prospect of studying here reminds me that I'm pretty fortunate to have had the opportunity myself. That's an easy thing to forget when you've got your head

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  ." I had previously listened to a grand total of Zero alternative country music, so when they came to perform in Charlottesville last Sunday, I was happy to tag along. (It is very telling that when the crowd started

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  stomach is not rumbling, but there’s enough flatness in it to proclaim the ... and decided to see how long Milk could last. Either way, Milk was let ... that I think of it, might not have been the best thing to do in front of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013